If more schools took the time for collaborative planning rather than top-down PD, we'd be in a better place.
Jim Knight's latest book "The Impact Cycle" is rich with ideas, concepts, and tips and can serve as one of the most important “go-to” resources of instructional partners and coaches. Cathy Gassenheimer says the Instructional Coaches' Toolkit , alone, is worth the price.
These 50+ strategies to jumpstart your teaching brain include literacy strategies, approaches to assessment, and grouping strategies.
The authors of The Coach Approach provide insight into their favorite technology tools for instructional coaches and best practices for school coaching.
Scaffold your instruction with these teaching scaffolding strategies to help bridge readiness and mastery for your elementary students!
As an Instructional Coach, I want to help teachers understand concepts that might seem difficult. Although my brain sees Backwards Design as a road map, a colleague mentioned the concept of making food as a way to see it. I turned that idea into this "recipe" graphic to help them "see" how it rela...
If you want to be an “Incredible” tech trainer or instructional coach, your mission must include honing the superhero skills of Collaborating and Networking, Facilitating High-Quality Professional Development, Coaching, and Mentoring, and Powering it ALL with Technology.
Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies include non-linguistic representations, generating and testing hypotheses, and summarizing.
Simple and Straight-forward Tools for Teachers, Coaches, and Leaders.
Use this list of 107 instructional strategies to fill-in that lesson plan or teaching portfolio with some high quality teaching strategies.Or, try some of these strategies out when you’re low on ideas and looking for a fresh way to teach in the classroom!
With the advent of the common-core standards, our thinking about how to support second language learners has become super important. While opting for services like Translation Services London is an excellent way to get one’s work translated, one also has to know more than one language fluently. Our current focus for supportive instruction may be on […]
Discover research-based instructional methods teachers, coaches, and administrators can use to enhance their everyday practices.
Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies Infographic can help teachers stay focus and provide learning practices students need.
This cooperative learning strategy takes the idea of "working in pairs" up a notch.
This Infographic is from the work of Barak Rosenshine who based these ten principles of instruction and suggested classroom practices on:
This post shares tips and strategies for teaching different learning styles to meet the needs of all learners.
We had another class Monday night with our new dual/ELL staff members, and this time we focused on differentiation and what that may look like across the subject areas. As we have done in the past, we had the teachers participate in a gallery walk and thus rotate around with their groups to add to a series of posters focused on this topic of differentiation. Yet again, our wonderful staff did not disappoint and came up with a wide assortment of ideas as to how instruction can be differentiated for our students! I typed up their ideas on a nice one page spread for them, and thought you all may find it useful as well! Click on it to grab a copy for yourself or a friend. Graphics/Fonts: Scrappin' Doodles, Rowdy Fonts, My Cute Graphics Also, (as if you haven't already heard ;)), I wanted to let you all in on the big secret. TpT will be hosting a "3 Million Teachers Strong" sale February 27-28th. In using promo code TPT3, you can get up to 28% off at my store along with so many more! How exciting is it to see this community of teachers growing and working together :)!
Visible Learning “Visible” refers to making student learning visible to teachers, ensuring attributes that make a “visible” difference to student learning. The “learning” aspect refers to how we go about knowing and understanding then doing something about student “learning”. “Visible Learning” Learning Objectives Introduce and review John Hattie’s research around influences related to student achievement. […]
How three types of scaffolding instruction (sensory, graphic, interactive) can empower ELLs to access content and develop academic language skills.
Have you ever had a class with so many difficult, disruptive students that you felt that you could barely even teach? What can you do to get past it? In this post, I am going to address this problem with my best advice, and some advice from others as well.
These free focus mats have been created to help you get your students ready for standardized testing or other stressful days in your classroom.
A recent post at the Corwin Connect blog celebrates the 10th anniversary of John Hattie's Visible Learning, a groundbreaking study of "what works" in teaching and learning.
Here are 50 strategies for differentiated instruction to better meet the needs of your diverse, evolving learners.
At my school, we use Kath Murdoch’s Inquiry Cycle. Many of our staff are new the PYP and new to inquiry-based teaching and learning, so we find this inquiry cycle provides some structure to t…
Why? Plenaries should be one of the most important parts of a lesson where the teacher assesses the progress students have made during the lesson and begins to plan the direction of future lessons.…
Sometimes it feels crazy overwhelming to keep assessing students and know exactly what they do/don’t understand. That’s where these quick and easy formative assessment ideas comes in! M…
Learn how Project Pals make it easier for educators to find PBL projects that are just right for their classrooms. Upgrade project-based learning with this powerful platform.
Explore examples of co-teaching models for ELLs and non-ELLs alike. There are 6 models that content and English language teachers can use when co-teaching.
Post Originally Published at FTISEdTech Transforming Student Learning If the Prezi below doesn't load correctly, you can view the presentation on Prezi [here]. Apps to Get You Started Hover over the Thinglink below to view tasks and directions for how to use the different apps. If the page doesn't load correctly, you can view it at Thinglink [here]. Intermediate Teachers PE Teachers Music Teachers Next Steps Explore more about SAMR & Bloom's, along with more ways that you can use apps with the Thinglink below. Hover over the apps to see integration ideas, blog posts and how-tos as well as things to consider when it comes to Digital Citizenship and Information Literacy strategies.
The 6 Education Theorists All Teachers Should Know present 6 people that did some of the major research in education.
Teacher clarity allows you to have a much larger impact on how well your students achieve. But this clarity involves more than most people think. Discover ..
How to set up and implement a classroom behavior plan that really works, with advice from Smart Classroom Management's Michael Linsin.
The 5 Best Methods & Specific Tips on HOW to Incorporate Each in Your Own Classroom Being a teacher is a tough business. It can be hard to navigate the classroom and know if your teaching methods are
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