It’s getting to be that time of year that every teacher dreads. The time of year between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Students are all anxiously awaiting the winter holidays and are not thinking about school. Teachers are looking for a chance to relax and recharge. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can
Learn tips to make parent teacher conferences productive whether you are brand new to teaching or need ideas to keep parents on track. Use the free classroom communication sheet to stay on track during grade 4 5 6 conferences.
Become an organized special education teacher with these tips and strategies to use in your class this school year.
Math teachers, are you feeling left out of the huge digital boom in the classroom? Are you looking for new ways to add technology into your lesson but can’t find a way around including equations and math symbols into your lesson? Do you have students with 1:1 digital devices that
Learn how to use anchor charts to decorate your science classroom with purpose. Anchor charts allow students to reference science concepts.
Have you ever wondered why your student participation was limited to only a few students? Are you looking for ways to get those quiet students to tell you what they know? Do you hate waiting until an assessment to realize that a majority of your class was clueless about the
Use these 5 lesson plans for Earth Day to teach students about the environment and animals within it. These lessons can also be used for NGSS units on human impact on the environment.
Have you heard of Digital Learning Day? Each year in February, we celebrate all things that we are doing in the classroom that brings new technology into our students’ lives to help improve outcomes in the classroom. I love to include different opportunities for students to
Sick and tired of the review activities you use with your students? Reviewing before a test can sometimes bore students (and teachers). They might be sick of hearing the same information over and over and over again. I used to do the same exact review with my students until I
This year I teamed up with a group of secondary teachers to bring you fresh ideas on how to bring “comfort and joy” into your classrooms this holiday season in the Twelve Days of December Blog Hop. Comfort and joy in a December classroom might sound like an oxymoron. However, there
Learn how teachers are using quotes in the classroom to help support student learners and empower them with confidence. Plus use the free set in your classroom today!
Kami is an extension found in the Chrome Web Store that allows students to write directly on PDFs. This extension can make your home school, and remote or distance learning classroom run much smoother without having to reinvent the wheel and learn how to use digital technology. If your upper