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How to Turn Test Retakes Into a Classroom Staple
Allowing retakes gives students another chance to learn and to demonstrate learning—the challenge is making redos work within the schedule.Your content has been saved!
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Building Students’ Independence and Preparedness for the Future
Instruction on activities of daily living helps middle school students in special education develop important skills like organization, hygiene, and self-advocacy.Your content has been saved!
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Keeping Parents in the Loop With Student-Written Emails
A strategy for guiding high school students to send home regular updates about their assignments and progress in school.Your content has been saved!
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Building Routines to Manage Cognitive Load
Creating procedures around daily classroom activities reduces the mental burden for students, leaving more brain space for them to think deeply about content.Your content has been saved!
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Teaching Students How to Synthesize Using Art and Music
Middle and high school teachers can use these ideas to guide students to engage with and analyze diverse sets of source documents.Your content has been saved!
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Giving Students Practice With Routines Like Gallery Walks to Maximize the Impact
Explicitly modeling common classroom learning tasks helps students focus on your content when you use the tasks throughout the year.Your content has been saved!
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5 Ways to Teach Embodied Phonics
These strategies help connect movements to phonics instruction, giving kids another way to absorb the crucial information.218Your content has been saved!
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6 Simple Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement
When you get students talking, moving, and creating, they’re more likely to actively apply the skills you’ve taught.371Your content has been saved!
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Helping Students Build Productive Academic Habits
Simple instructional shifts can help students learn and practice behaviors that help them more actively engage with content.263Your content has been saved!
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7 Digital Resources for Your Elementary Science Tool Kit
Teachers can use these websites and apps to enhance learning tasks, making them more engaging without adding tons of prep time.209Your content has been saved!
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An Unconventional Seating Plan Designed to Benefit Focus and Learning
After years of search and experimentation, this teacher finally hit on a room layout that allowed for efficient shifting between whole class, small group, and independent work. - Teaching Strategies
In High-Performing Math Classrooms, Words Matter
Math vocabulary alone isn’t a silver bullet—but research shows it’s linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.41.5kYour content has been saved!
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60-Second Strategy: Quiz Quiz Trade
When students get up and moving in this low-stakes conversational activity, they learn more about the topic—but also about each other.29kYour content has been saved!
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Walking Through Writing a Compelling Essay
Working out the parts of an essay step by step helps students think more creatively and analytically about what they want to convey.16.3kYour content has been saved!
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6 Common Teacher Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them
From rushing through prep to misjudging students’ readiness for a task to teaching the way they were taught, experienced teachers talk about some of the mistakes they’ve made.
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How to Co-create a Rubric With Elementary Students
Teachers can include students in the process of designing a tool to measure their understanding of content—an additional learning opportunity.1.5kYour content has been saved!
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How to Accurately Document Preschool Students’ Growth
Young students may repeatedly show progress and regression in skill development, and capturing their learning amid this variability is a challenge.1.9kYour content has been saved!
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Guiding Students to Receive Feedback as Information to Improve Their Skills
Students may take feedback from teachers or peers as a personal judgement unless it is intentionally focused on their work.3.7kYour content has been saved!
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Easy Ways to Have Students Review Material Frequently
Students retain information better when they have consistent opportunities to engage with previously taught content. - Assessment
How to Really Prepare Students for State Tests
A high school teacher uses her state’s testing blueprint to give students practice with the standards and question types they’ll encounter most frequently.
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How to Use Hexagonal Thinking in Any Content Area
This engaging activity supports students in organizing their thoughts in a multidimensional way, helping to cement their understanding.1.3kYour content has been saved!
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Podcast: Smart Strategies to Improve Your Scaffolding
Evidence-backed tips to support students as they learn new or complex material—from a UCLA instructor and former high school teacher.
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4 High-Quality Math Enrichment Tasks
These low-floor, high-ceiling problems support differentiation, challenging all students by encouraging flexible thinking and allowing for multiple solution paths. - Differentiated Instruction
4 Ways to Make Story Problems More Engaging and Accessible
Four simple strategies—beginning with an image, previewing vocabulary, omitting the numbers, and offering number sets—can have a big impact on learning.2.4kYour content has been saved!
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Taking Your Read-Alouds From Interactive to Immersive
Story time is a highlight of the day for many young students, and teachers can boost engagement even further by adding costumes and sound effects.3.8kYour content has been saved!
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3 Ways to Set Boundaries to Protect Your Time and Energy
Implementing specific strategies can help you prioritize your time, protect your peace, and connect to things that energize you.2.7kYour content has been saved!
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How to Engage Productively on Social Media as a Teacher
Although many platforms are designed to reward provocation and outrage, we can choose how we interact with different perspectives.1.4kYour content has been saved!
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The Research on Protecting Teacher Well-Being
Laurie Santos, host of the popular podcast The Happiness Lab, on how our minds deceive us, why "time affluence" matters, and what we can do to reset our parasympathetic nervous system.51.4kYour content has been saved!
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For Elementary Counselors, Big Caseloads Require Getting Creative
When you’re one counselor to several hundred students, you need to leverage support from both teachers and students—and learn when to say no.1.8kYour content has been saved!
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You Are OK and You Will Be OK: Navigating Menopause as a Teacher
When in your mid-career, if you can openly acknowledge this important stage of life and find support, you'll feel more empowered to manage challenges.1.7kYour content has been saved!
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