Do you ever look at a student and wonder, “What were they thinking?” Sometimes you just want to throw up your hands in confusion, but you gotta give a kid …
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Differentiation in Instruction
How to Differentiate for English Language Learners To Be Effective
Do you wonder how to differentiate for English Language Learners in a bustling classroom? If so, you are not alone. With the influx of ELL students in many classrooms around …
How to Make the Zone of Proximal Development Effective
Are you struggling to keep your classroom engaged and on track? If so, you’re not alone. Many of us face the challenge of balancing effective teaching with classroom management. Today’s …
How to Energize Young Writers With Differentiated Writing Paper
Have you ever looked around your class after completing writing assessments and been overwhelmed by the range of abilities? I anticipated a wide range of writing abilities and I was …
How to Understand Learning Styles: Its Not What You Think
A LOT has been said about learning styles, including by yours truly. It is essential to establish where they fit in the important discussion of differentiation and pedagogy as a …
Do Better Differentiated Instruction for ELL Students Now
Uncertainty and sleeplessness seems to be the cost of uncertainty for teachers. Are we doing our best for a student? Have we implemented the best strategies, or is there something …
The Best Classroom Management Strategies for Centers
The best classroom management strategies for centers of any kind is to create independent students. Independence occurs when students know what to do. Makes sense doesn’t it? So, if we …
How to Differentiate Instruction with Social Emotional Learning
“I don’t have time to incorporate social-emotional learning activities. There is barely have time to differentiate math, reading, and writing.” If that sounds like you, you’re not alone—and the good …
Do Writing Prompts Work? 4 Ways to Overcome Doubts
Do writing prompts work? When comparing Writer’s Workshop to using writing prompts in the classroom, the use of writing prompts was found to be the most effective of the two …
Energize Students Now: 4 Fun Ways to Learn Math Facts
Youtube Title: fun ways to learn essential math facts “Yay! My favourite part!!” We had so many fun ways to learn math facts that practising math facts was a joy …
Number Bonds: How to Teach Number Sense the Right Way
“Number bonds?! I don’t get it. I mean, I have seen them before, but is it necessary to teach them to the kids?” This was my thinking about number bonds …
Writing Prompts Beginners: Boost Success for Your Writers Now!
I watch as one of my writing prompts beginners looks at each writing prompts journal page, thinking, considering, planning. Finally she chooses the writing prompts about friendship, and she heads …
Differentiation in Science Teaching: How to Make an Inclusive Classroom
“She looks a little bit bored. I am not too sure she is getting much out of this.” I had provided my educational assistant with differentiation in science teaching for …
Boost Math Differentiating With Christmas Games and Activities Now!
“Where is “U”?, she asked. “’I’ is here.” I responded. She scrunched up her face at me, refusing to giggle at my pun. Meanwhile my classroom assistant and I roared …
What is Differentiated Instruction in Writing? How to Know.
If you have you ever heard (or said yourself 😉) “My students could never work quietly at centers!”, then this might be just the post for you. Once you know …
How to Jumpstart Writing: Embrace Differentiation in Instruction Now!
Much as I love to teach math, and I do love to teach math, I find differentiation in instruction for writing easier. Maybe because it’s easier to make it open-ended. …
How to Unlock the Mystery of Differentiation in Math
What is Differentiation in Math? Okay, I admit it, in some ways I consider math the most difficult subject to differentiate in. There, the truth is out. 🥵 But implementing …