4 Ways to Use Laughter for Learning
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Laughter can help your students learn and improve your instruction. Here are four ways to include more laughter in your life and classroom.
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Get Your Giggle On! 4 Ways to Use Laughter for Learning
Laughter can help your students learn and improve your instruction. Here are four ways to include more laughter in your life and classroom.
Using Number Lines in Primary Grade Math
Check out these hands-on tips for using number lines in the primary grades to help your students develop a linear view of numbers.
How to Teach Close Reading
Check out this three-step approach to close reading based on Dr. D. Ray Reutzel’s expertise to help your students understand increasingly challenging texts.
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HOW-TO VIDEOS: Using Number Lines
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Check out these hands-on tips for using number lines in the primary grades to help your students develop a linear view of numbers.
Teacher Stress-Buster Exercise
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Try this simple mindfulness exercise wherever and whenever you need a moment of calm.
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Knowledge Building and Literacy
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For decades, reading instruction has centered on drilling students in skills and strategies. But recent research is singing a different tune. When it comes to reading instruction, knowledge matters.
Educators Need Normative and Criterion-Referenced Data
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Learn why you need both normative and criterion-referenced assessment data to understand what your students know and can do.
Scaffolding Builds Learning Success
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With a full year’s worth of teaching to cover, scaffolding can be your greatest tool in helping students learn math concepts efficiently.
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Starting the School Year Off Right
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Ready to start the school year off right? Educators share new and inspiring ways to prepare for the school year ahead.
5 Instructional Scaffolding Ideas
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Try out these 5 proven instructional scaffolding techniques in your classroom! They allow students to use skills they’re not quite ready for as they move toward independence.
Pronouncing Students’ Names Correctly
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What’s in a name? A lot! Names carry our family history, culture, and identities. Find out why it’s so important to pronounce your students’ names correctly, with three exercises to help.
Noteworthy Voices
How to Teach Close Reading
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Check out this three-step approach to close reading based on Dr. D. Ray Reutzel’s expertise to help your students understand increasingly challenging texts.
5 Practices That Promote Math Discourse
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Encourage math discourse and engagement with these five best practices to help your students gain a deeper understanding of foundational concepts.