We really know something when we can teach it, right? English learners (ELs) at the beginning level of English proficiency struggle to explain their thinking in an academic setting. After all, they are trying to activate prior knowledge in language one (L1), learn new academic content...
Group work and the science classroom go together like peanut butter and jelly – or like hydrogen and oxygen. Whether it’s a lab, discussion...
Project Based Learning is a method of instruction that encourages students to learn through the use of projects and problem solving. PBL projects are...
If you’ve never used them before, sentence stems are a scaffold which help students respond to questions and prompts using complete sentences...
Finding time for student writing in an ELAR class is hard, but it’s especially challenging in non ELAR classes. However, we know that the key...
How would you teach a young child to ride a bike? Would you give them a regular bike and say, “Go for it!” or would you start them off on a bike with...
Social Media. Students love it, parents fear it, teachers compete with it, and administrators underestimate the power of it. Social media allows you...
What do you think of when you hear PLCs? The idea of Professional Learning Communities in schools has been in practice for decades. The PLC teams...
The success of your students depends on whether or not they are absorbing the information you’re teaching them. Often as educators we get bogged down...
Guest post by Dr. Marcia L. Tate. Posted originally on Developing Minds, Inc. as “20 INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES THAT ENGAGE THE BRAIN: #7...
