Ease the transition to online teaching by checking out these 6 tips on how to create an appealing and useful online teaching space!
These are easy and fun online teaching ideas that will keep your students engaged, build connections and make class more fun. You will love number 10!
Knowing how to effectively research and filter information is an essential life skill. I suggest 5 simple steps to teaching information literacy which are summarised in a poster.
Teaching Materials and lessons for English teachers. Easy to teach lessons from ESL Teacher 365. Teaching tips and advice.
Do you enjoy teaching? Do you want to work from home? Find out how to put your educational expertise to work with online tutoring jobs.
In this post, I offer 10 teaching tips for new college instructors. Find advice about course design, the 1st week, grading, & campus resources, starting...
Differentiating your instruction can be overwhelming. I get it. When you hear the word "differentiation" do you automatica...
Zoom for Online Teaching and vital tips as an online trainer or teacher. Using breakout for online activities and Zoom classroom security.
Online etiquette in the digital classroom is an important topic of conversation. Review these important etiquette tips with your students!
Wondering how to organize Google Classroom? This post will give you the most common organizational strategies for the Classwork page and topics.
Although I've been successful with VIPKID in the past two years, I have absolutely nothing to hide. Here are my honest VIPKID reviews of this company.
Zoom for Online Teaching and vital tips as an online trainer or teacher. Using breakout for online activities and Zoom classroom security.
The world’s weirdest school year has arrived and I’m ready to take you on a quick tour through my work-from-home classroom. A few things have changed since the spring, and that’s because the educational landscape has also changed. Here’s a peek into my classroom setup for the 2020-21 school year.
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
Student engagement is my number one goal in the classroom. None of the academic goals can be achieved without student engagement. It is essential! My biggest advice to you is to decrease teacher talk and the time students spend in their desks.I want to share some more specific ways that I keep my students engaged
There are tons of VIPKid background ideas, but these versatile & budget-friendly options are perfect for classrooms or traveling teachers.
Teaching English online is fast becoming one of the most popular work from home jobs. Click through to learn how to get started with this lucrative gig.
Released March 12, 2014 To counter common misconceptions and bring clarity to discussions about “Flipped Learning,” the governing board and key leaders of the Flipped Learning Network (FLN) announced a formal definition of the term. They also released the Four Pillars of F-L-I-P™ and a checklist of eleven indicators that educators must incorporate into their […]
Khan Academy is valuable resource for differentiating in the math classroom. Tips for using Khan Academy effectively and efficiently!
Want to learn new pedagogy in education best practices? Read how I attended professional development and gained new knowledge. Click here!
Here are six ideas for teaching phonics virtually with tips for how to teach sounds and model skills during a Zoom meeting.
Do you have students who rush through their work, making careless mistakes and incorrect answers? This blog post provides 10 teaching ideas to help you slow down your rushing student and get him to produce quality work!
"Total Physical Response" or TPR methods are foundational to your ESL or VIPKID students. Find 8 commands to use every day.
Teaching English with songs is a great way to boost student engagement. Check out these 17 ideas for activities using music and songs!
Love podcasts? Check out this post in the form of a podcast episode on The Classroom Commute Podcast !
A list of job options you have as a special education teacher (outside of the traditional classroom setting), given the skills you possess as an educator.
Use these google slides templates for your classroom whether you are teaching online or in your actual classroom! Display your schedules and routines in style!
Here are some helpful and comprehensive organization ideas for teachers from the start of the school year to day-to-day organization.
If you teach online, download this Free Online Teaching Guide pdf. It includes the equipment you need, best tools and free video lessons.
Ideas for teaching proportional relationships (7.RP.2) - including activities and common misconceptions to avoid in your math classroom.
Listen to this Special Ed Podcast with 15 great ideas for Functional Centers for students with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism in High School. Read more and subscribe today!
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5 must-haves for a functional virtual teaching workspace: the essentials you need to help you teach remotely. Extra screen, planner, and more.
Free printable geometry, metric system, and other math notebooking pages for your homeschool or classroom.
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Empower ELL newcomers with essential classroom English phrases using this resource pack designed for beginners. Perfect for mastering survival English skills.
Planning to tutor over the summer? Here are tips for quick and easy planning! Hi there! It's Sarah! I've been tutoring kiddos for the last year and have developed a routine that makes my planning easy and my session flow smoothly. All of the kiddos I tutor are grades K-2 and in need of a boost in their reading skills...fluency, comprehension, and phonics. Warm-up I like to start with some reading that is simple or familiar. I'll either have the kiddo re-read a text from the previous session or read fluency sentences. I have my kiddos keep a composition notebook with past passages to go back and re-read. I use lots of guided reader books to find the just right text for my kiddos to read. These are also great books to leave for kiddos to practice between sessions. Fluency sentence strips from The Moffatt Girls are a GREAT help to boost fluency and confidence! They are also super easy to leave for practice between sessions. Fluency Reading Practice My kiddos have all had good sight word recognition and really need fluency work. I switch between leveled readers and text passages. I usually have kiddos read the text themselves first. After reading, we go back through the text and find words that were tricky and read them. Next, I have the kiddo read through the text with me or by themselves if they are confident. Using a leveled reader Using fluency passages and recording words read per minute (the kiddos love to see their growth!) Find these fluency passages HERE! Using text evidence passages. Grab these passages HERE! Comprehension After some fluency practice with the selected text, I move into comprehension work. In our district, kiddos need to do a written response comprehension question as part of their reading assessment. I have my kiddos practice a written response question with every text and in every session. Comprehension with level reader I use these question stems to develop questions based on the text. Grab the question stems HERE! Completed written response, kiddos write in their composition journal Comprehension with text evidence passages. Grab these passages HERE! Here I use a reading passage with several comprehension tasks for a 2nd grade kiddo. Find these reading passage + comprehension packets HERE! Phonics After the reading and comprehension tasks are complete, I work on some phonics task with my kiddos. One of my favorite tasks is doing a word family word splash. I select a word from our text. I like how this tasks shows kiddos that if they can spell a work like bat, they can also spell cat, mat, sat, etc. Writing short sentences with words from the Word Family Splash Word building and sounding out Extras I like to use phonics poems as an additional fluency tool. The kiddos glue them into their composition notebook so they can go back and re-read between sessions, continuing to build fluency with familiar texts. These phonics poems are from Susan Jones. I use our Literacy Bags in between reading tasks. Literacy Bags break up the rigorous reading and fluency practice we do for much of the session. You can find Literacy Bags HERE! I'm working with a few Kindergartners who need sight word practice. I use the K version of our Differentiated Reading Fluency passages. In K, the passages start as reading letters, then sight words fluently. It perfect support for my K kiddos! You can grab these HERE! Additionally, our Print a Standard packs have been a great support for targeting specific skills students need to work on. Each pack contains tasks for one standard and has several activities for that standard, so there are a lot of opportunities to help the student learn, practice, and master standards based skills. You can grab Print a Standard packs for ELA AND MATH HERE! Connecting with students and parents on a more personal level is the best part of tutoring. I love giving kiddos instant feedback and celebrating their successes! I also love that I can give them more choices to foster a love of reading. In the picture above, I'm showing several text selections. The kiddos I'm working with is able to choose the book he'll read with me for the session. I also love being able to help parents foster learning at home. I've found most all of my parents did not really know about their kiddo's reading level or reading abilities. This makes it difficult for parents to find the best "just right" books for reading at home. After I work with a kiddo, I leave the text piece we worked on for that session (a passage or a book) so the kiddo can re-read it with parents. I leave their composition notebooks with phonics poems for the kiddos to go back a re-read. I also leave the fluency sentence strips for practice between sessions.
