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Critical thinking questions include, 'Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?"
Scaffold your instruction with these teaching scaffolding strategies to help bridge readiness and mastery for your elementary students!
Differentiation of content, process, and product alter what kids get, do, and/or create. Read on for differentiation examples and ideas.
Spanish is not my native language and I don't have a Spanish-speaking husband I can speak with. Here are 6 tips to maintain your Spanish.
As coaches and facilitators of professional learning, our work revolves around providing teachers with constructive feedback that will help them improve their instruction. This process makes good sense to us and we likely feel pretty comfortable with it. I wonder though, how comfortable we feel with asking for and receiving feedback on our own practice? […]
Professional learning networks for teachers provide spaces to connect with others, exchange ideas, and engage in meaningful discussions.
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Scaffold your instruction with these teaching scaffolding strategies to help bridge readiness and mastery for your elementary students!
Responsive Classroom techniques, such as relationship-building morning meetings and engaging student-led activities, get students focused and ready to learn.
The Kaplan Depth & Complexity chart is a way to promote complex and in-depth analysis of academic and non-academic content.
Vocabulary refers to the words children must know to communicate effectively. In school terms, it can be described as oral vocabulary or reading vocabulary. Find out more about effective vocabulary instruction, the relationship between vocabulary and comprehension, and practical ways that parents can introduce new, exciting words to their kids. Refresh your vocabulary instruction! Try the Vocabulary module in our free, self-paced online course, Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing.
Whether it’s science, social studies, language arts, or math, get ready to turn up the fun and creativity, while holding your students accountable with these Content Area Student Response Activity Templates for Google Slides™. Assignments and formative assessments don’t have to be boring! Using Google Slides is interactive, fun, and engaging! If you've been looking for a fun and effective digital alternative to traditional book reports, research projects, or collaborative assignments, these response activities for any content area are so versatile and a great way to go, especially for visual and kinesthetic learners! You and your students are going to love these activities! :) What's included: 6 Content Area Student Response Activity Templates for Google Slides: Sketchnotes Simply put, sketchnotes is visual note-taking. It’s a way to “capture” one’s thinking. Instead of copying information word for word, sketchnoting allows students to draw their notes! Students use doodles, graphics, and images, in an organized way, in place of traditional writing-only. This type of visual note taking allows students to be creative, and to really put thought into their work. They have to really listen to the speaker or comprehend what is being read, in order to create their own unique representations. In this way, students connect at a deeper level to the material being studied. Sketchnoting is great for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners. Bullet Journal For the Bullet Journal activity, students use “bullet” points to document facts or details about a given topic. This is great for note taking or for creating a “cheat sheet” to study from! Bullet Journals are wonderful for keeping ideas organized, so this is perfect for those needing assistance in this area. Timeline Using timelines is a great visualization for summarizing or reviewing the BIG PICTURE! It’s a wonderful way to display key events, to represent complex concepts, and to access and assess information particularly for ELLs or struggling readers. Infographic Infographics are a creative way to show information using images and graphics when needing to explain something be it a math procedure, STEM recording, or events of a story! This is a perfect activity for creating a poster on showing the steps for any topic or subject area. Mind Map The idea behind creating a mind map is to map out your thinking! Our brains are wired to think in connections and associations, so this map of ”branches” is an effective and exciting alternative to writing an essay or taking notes in the traditional linear fashion. Graffiti Wall Use the Graffiti Wall any time you want to review a topic or concept in a fun and creative way! Students get to use their imagination to showcase what they know/learned in their own unique way. Step by step directions PDF Printable ENJOY! Don’t forget to follow my store to receive notification of NEW products. :) Let's connect! Pinterest
Interested in doing some professional learning at home? Take a look at Principal Rita Platt’s collection of online and/or web-free PD ideas and resources.
Critical thinking questions include, 'Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?"
Maps are a fundamental part of everyday life. Even if we don't pull paper maps out of our car glove compartments anymore, we still rely on GPS and digital
Are you struggling to make content area instruction accessible to your ELLs? Here are five tips to help your ELLs be successful in your content area classroom. Any teacher that has had a beginning ELL student in
It's not complicated or time-consuming, and you don't need an English degree to get really good at helping students build writing skills in your content area.
The Common Core writing standards for English and all other subjects are nearly identical. This means that the writing process for argument, information, research etc. should be the the same across the disciplines, only the content will differ. Read on for ways to standardize the writing process across content areas.
We want you to feel ready and equipped to confidently teach Year 10 Food Technology. With this course, you’ll get units, assessments, marking criteria, recipes and work booklets, plus guidance to implement it all. You'll have 24/7 access to 5-hours of video content guiding you through teaching four topic areas; Food Service and Catering, Food for Specific Needs, Food for Specific Needs and Food Trends. Plus a breakdown of the syllabus changes from old syllabus to the new FOOD TECHNOLOGY 7–10 SYLLABUS (2019). You will be guided through all of the resources included in the course, which are ready for you to use right away to teach your students the syllabus content in an engaging and fun way. You'll be stepped through all of the recipes, activities, student work-booklets, assessment tasks, marking criteria and units of work that are provided when you enrol into this online course. Online Captivate Year 10 Food Technology’ is designed to assist teachers to involve students in the Year 10 Food Technology classroom. Increase student engagement in your Food Technology lessons by captivating your students’ attention and enthusiasm in a variety of appealing tasks. We’ll also investigate the syllabus changes, so you walk into the classroom feeling ready and equipped. Course inclusions 5 hrs of video that guides you through teaching Food Technology Resources to use for classroom delivery and support, including: Annotated Syllabus 4 x Units of work 4 x Recipe booklets 4 x Student work-booklets 4 x Assessment tasks 4 x Marking criteria 2 x Assessment scaffolds Engaging activity ideas Course PowerPoint presentation of the course to re-visit at any time TPD’s support if you need any assistance throughout the course Audience Food teachers looking for new resources, strategies and ideas to teach students in Year 10. This course has been designed around the FOOD TECHNOLOGY 7–10 SYLLABUS (2019). The resources can be adapted to suit other states throughout Australia. Everything you need to teach: Food Service and Catering Food for Specific Needs Food for Special Occasions Food Trends Session 1: Captivate Syllabus changes Opportunities for Project Based Learning Scope and sequence Session 2: Food Service and Catering Food Service and Catering highlights Food Service and Catering Assessment Task Food Service and Catering recipe ideas Session 3: Food for Specific Needs Food for Specific Needs run down Food for Specific Needs Assessment Task Food for Specific Needs recipe ideas Session 4: Food for Special Occasions Food for Special Occasions focus Food for Special Occasions Assessment Task Food for Special Occasions recipe ideas Session 5: Food Trends Food Trends features Food Trends Assessment Task Food Trends recipe ideas Delivery Format Online - 24/7 access to learn at your own pace. Duration 5 hours Teaching Standards 2.1.2 Proficient Level – Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities. 6.2.2 Proficient Level – Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice, targeted to professional needs and school and/or system Completing Online Captivate Year 10 Food Technology will contribute 5 hours of Elective PD addressing 2.1.2 and 6.2.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. Meet the trainer – Carly Saunders - The Happiness MissionCarly Saunders is a lecturer and tutor at the University of Newcastle in the School of Education. Carly has been a Food Technology teacher for 17 years, has trained over 3,000 teachers – she’s no stranger to the classroom! Carly thrives on educating dynamic and passionate teachers and is a published author. She will provide you with tips and strategies to engage your students in studying the syllabus.ENROL IN THIS COURSE NOWEnrol today and get immediate access so you can deliver the Year 10 Food Technology content confidently and easily. This course will help you free up time, engage your students and achieve your teaching goals.We pride ourselves in offering you comprehensive teacher professional development and supporting you with all the resources, worksheets and activities you need to teach your students. PLEASE NOTE: Teacher Professional Development hereby grants you (as a user) a limited, non-transferable licence to access and use company course content, for which you have paid all required fees, solely for your non- commercial, educational purposes. Once a Resource has been purchased, it cannot be used by any other individual without the purchase of an additional Resource (and the associated licence). Please Note: Purchasing 1 (one) course above will allow access for 1 (one) individual teacher to access and complete the online course. Select “Group” when purchasing 2 (two) or more of the course. The quantity of a single course you purchase will be the quantity of teachers you’ll be able to enrol and will be included in the group. For example, if you purchase 3 (three) of a course, you will be able to enrol 3 (three) teachers, or 2 (two) teachers and yourself. The person who places the order is assigned as the ’group leader’. The group leader is able to enrol the additional teachers for the purchase group. To be eligible to purchase additional licences to use the resources, one member of faculty from your school will need to be enrolled in the online course. If your school is eligible, email [email protected] for more information on additional licences.
Edutopia blogger Andrew Miller offers some basic guidelines for integrating content areas with a PBL project.
It's not complicated or time-consuming, and you don't need an English degree to get really good at helping students build writing skills in your content area.
Another part of high expectations is requiring students to complete their work, especially major assignments or assessments. If something ...
The purpose of these critical thinking question stems is to help students practice willingness to sit with an idea and struggle wonderfully.
No matter what you teach, at some point you will be a reading teacher. When students struggle in social studies or science, it is often because they are struggling with reading comprehension. This also applies
Teaching Beginning and Intermediate English Language Learners in mainstream content classes can be particularly challenging, and I’ve written extensively about it previously in two “The…
Sunday Cummins' book is filled with practical and inspiring ideas for meaningful teaching by using multiple sources on a topic. For both content areas and ELA.
A guide to fostering academic discourse in classrooms regardless of subject area, with a focus on English language learners at all levels.\nTeachers across the country are seeking ways to make their multicultural classrooms come alive with student talk about content. Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners is a practical, hands-on guide to creating and managing environments that spur sophisticated levels of student communication, both oral and written. Paying special attention to the needs of English language learners, the authors *Detail research-based steps for designing lessons that spark student talk; *Share real-life classroom scenarios and dialogues that bring theory to life; *Describe easy-to-use assessments for all grade levels; *Provide rubrics, worksheets, sentence frames, and other imaginative tools that encourage academic communication; and *Offer guiding questions to help teachers plan instruction. Teachers at any grade level, in any content area, will find a wide variety of strategies in this book to help students simultaneously learn English and learn in English. Drawing both on decades of research data and on the authors' real-life experiences as teachers of English language learners, this book is replete with ideas for fostering real academic discourse in your classroom.
Article of the week is a key literacy strategy to help middle and high school students improve their reading and writing skills.
Here's where to shop for speciality garden seeds online. Whether you're looking for rare heirloom tomatoes or unique flowers for your cutting garden, these seeds will help your garden flourish.
From award-winning software, to a teacher-created program that needs peer input, our readers offered some useful ways in which technology can help English-language learners and those for whom English is a second language.
Teachers of history, science, and other subjects are expected to weave literacy instruction into their teaching. What are the most effective ways to help students read challenging non-fiction texts?
“You can’t do it all.” These were the words one of my new colleagues shared with me near the end of last week. They were a good reminder as I was quite tempted to try to “do…
