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PLANNING

Planning can take up a lot of a teacher’s time, but it doesn’t have to. Let me help you plan quality lessons that will meet your students’ needs and engage them. This section is here to help you so you can get back to your personal life.

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Have you ever struggled with predicting how long a lesson takes? Have you sometimes ran out of time during a lesson and not finished everything you needed to do, or ended up having too much time left over? This post covers how to estimate the time you need for each lesson.

Gauging How Long a Lesson Will Take

If you're bored with the same informal assessments such as the ticket out the door, check out this list of assessment ideas that are low prep and engaging for your classroom. This blog post includes an A to Z list of ideas for informal assessments with a FREE printable.

Informal Assessments A to Z: A list of Ideas

It is absolutely possible to facilitate learning in any subject with the six tips listed in this post. These suggestions are all based on foundational teaching practices and not on specific course curriculum. Click through to get these tips and save this post to reference later!

How to Facilitate Learning in ANY Subject

Halloween Activities for Any Content Area

Are you looking for some great activities for Halloween day that will engage your students, yet still impress your administrator that you are focusing on

Having a Math and Science Night

A math and science night is a lot of work but it’s well worth it. The benefits of families experiencing school as a place of

Activities for Red Ribbon Week

It doesn’t seem that we would have to tackle the concepts of drugs, alcohol, or smoking in the elementary grades. Yet, we do. It’s not

Do you need activities to help your students practice fact fluency? Check out these math ideas to get you started with teaching multiplication!

Activities for Practicing Fact Fluency

Gone are the days of simply telling kiddos to memorize their multiplication facts. In order for students to master their facts and be fluent in

The Three Phases of Fact Fluency

When I think of learning multiplication and division facts, I instantly think of things like flashcards, timed tests, and around the world activities. I remember

Help your students understand science vocabulary and retain it better with these five teaching ideas!

5 Activities to Learn Science Vocabulary

Learning science vocabulary can sometimes be boring to a child. And when they already have to learn the concepts too, it can be challenging. With

Steps to Build Number Sense

When I was younger I remember thinking math was all about memorizing formulas and just plugging in numbers. If I made an error, I obviously

Engaging Math & Science Pumpkin Activities

Everywhere you go during the fall season, you see and smell pumpkins. Pumpkins can even be brought into the classroom for some engaging math and

Activities to Help Teach Scientific Process Skills

At the beginning of the school year, teachers will often focus on teaching the scientific method. It takes many skills to design and carry out

Teaching About Variables in Science

If you are teaching the scientific method in your classroom, then you should also be teaching about variables! A variable is something that can change

Managing Your Science Labs

Classroom management can definitely be a challenge in any regular classroom. When you throw in the excitement of a science lab, it can become even

End of the Year Review Game

One way to get students engaged and thinking creatively at the end of the year is to have them create their own review board games.

Take Back Your Weekends

Let me help you take back your weekends without sacrificing quality teaching!