- How To Start Learning Through Projects in Your Classroom for the Best Results
Learning through projects is one of the best methods to get your students to learn. It can easily integrate student choice, reading, writing, communication, problem solving, and creative thinking. It’s highly engaging and motivating for students when done correctly. My most memorable learning experiences as a kid in school all had to do with projects. …
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- The Best Ways to Make Summer Engaging and Meaningful For Your Middle Schooler
Engaging and Meaningful Summer Activities for Middle Schoolers Summer doesn’t have to be a time for your middle schooler to stop learning. It’s a perfect time for them to engage in more self-directed learning. And it doesn’t always have to require a screen. It’s also a great time to spend some good quality time together…
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- 10 Exciting History Projects For More Active Learning in Middle School
These 10 activities are designed to be student driven, interactive, and exploratory.
- The Best Ways to Increase Student Engagement
Learners of today want to play a more active part in their instruction. They’re driven by relationships, curiosity about the real world, and curiosity about themselves.
- Your Complete Guide to Classroom Procedures and Routines
Class procedures and routines are the backbone of a good classroom management system. They provide students with a script for good behavior and maximizes learning. Read on for a complete guide in setting up your classroom procedures and routines.
- The Heart of Good Lesson Planning
Good lesson planning creates a cohesive and engaging experience for your students. Plan the best lessons by focusing on four key areas.
- How to Teach Summarizing
Summarizing is actually a really difficult skill. Kids are told repeatedly to take out the main ideas of a passage. But this instruction is not enough. It can be very vague. We need to give more specific directions that will help them differentiate between important and unimportant details.
- Best Tips to Teach Effectively With Films
It takes more than just pressing “play”. Proper lesson planning and delivery can make any film into an interactive experience that promotes critical thinking.
- The Best Strategies for Learning Pt. 3
Researchers have identified two other effective learning methods in addition to retrieval and spaced practice. Do you use them in your teaching?
- The Best Strategies for Learning Pt. 2
If retrieval practice gives us the method of how we should spend our time when we study, then distributed practice tells us when we should study.
- The Best Strategies for Learning Pt 1
What can we do when our students have studied for hours, even highlighting and rereading, and still do not know the material?
- How to Level Up Your Class Discussions
Elevate your class discussions with a proper vision, thorough planning, best practices, and class reflections.
- Dangers of “Restorative Practices” in the Classroom
It is very important to really clarify what restorative justice is. It’s not a lack of consequences and accountability. It’s not enabling. It requires effort and courage on the teacher’s part.
- Communication Best Practices – A Useful Five-Step Process To More Productive Conversations
The two most important goals to have productive conversations are 1) seeking to understand the other person and 2) being solution-oriented. This five-step process provides a framework for concretely achieving these two goals.
- Five Easy Ways to Break Up Long Lectures
When you can’t avoid a long lecture, inject it with lots of short student activities and social interactions. Keep things interesting with your tone, pacing, movement, and questions. Doing even just some of these can make a long lecture more effective and go faster for your students.