Student learning is no accident!
Are you looking for a cooperative learning structure that will really get your students working together? If so, the jigsaw strategy is for you! Using a jigsaw in your classroom is a great way to teach students to work cooperatively, as they truly rely on each other. Just like all of the pieces of a puzzle are needed to complete… Read More
As a middle school ELA teacher, I became aware very quickly that there are NOT enough minutes in a class period to possibly address all of the Common Core State Standards. After experimenting with a variety of different lesson planning and scheduling strategies, I landed on this. Whether you call them warm ups, bell ringers or do nows- those first… Read More
A while back I took stock of what we were doing as a math department to improve kids’ math fluency. It seemed that every year we had a chunk of kids who came up to sixth grade with amazing fact fluency. We had another chunk who fought with basic addition and multiplication much like struggling readers fought with multisyllabic words…. Read More
Do you want your students to behave or do you want more than that? If you spend all day managing behaviors, you are EXHAUSTED by 3:00. I know!!! I’ve been there. It takes so much mental energy, so much executive functioning to anticipate every fire that might start- and to put out all of the ones that do. So, take… Read More
In the next few posts, I’m going to focus on Differentiating Instruction in the Math Classroom. I will give you three strategies you can use immediately in the lessons you already have planned- to reach all of those kids! I promise not to ask you to do ANYTHING that wastes your time. I promise to only save you time.
If you’re thinking about fractions, you might be a 5th grade teacher… Thanks to the Common Core State Standards, fifth grade now throws the wildest fraction party on the block! I taught 6th grade math back when that was fraction central, and I learned 3 key things along the way. They have been just applicable in the 5th grade classrooms… Read More
Brilliant suggestion from my amazing friend at Teach Anyway:
To learn more about what it feels like to be a student with learning or attention difficulties, follow this link. You can select the criteria (grade and specific challenges) and you will be lead through a simulated experience and hear from students experiencing similar challenges. Powerful stuff!
www.understood.org/en/through-your-childs-eyes
Brilliant!!Before students show what they know, give them a chance to put their heads together, suggests educator Howie Hua:
🚨Genius Hack Alert!!!🚨
👀Hint cards!!! Have you tried this?? 🏆
Hint cards are my FAVORITE way to scaffold for a variety of learner needs in the same room.
🌈I use hint cards for all subjects. Here’s how I use them to differentiate in my math classroom, but keep an eye 👀out for my writing hint cards soon!✍🏻
#differentiation #mathintervention
