Teaching Strategies & Hacks: Using Audio Books As Supplemental Instruction
Teachers, as a rule, have a massive workload. And on top of that, there are always times when a student—often more than one student—needs reinforcement of the material being taught, or needs to have the content explained differently. How can we meet these students’...
Finding Better Ways to Get Parents to Sign Students’ Documents
Dear Susan: What can you do for the kids that are supposed to have something signed, but the parent doesn’t do it? We have a lot of kids with a parent that works second or third shift, so the kids and parents really don’t interact. The kid may leave...
What’s Working? The 3 Best Tips for Successful Collaboration in the Classroom
Improving collaboration in the classroom between members of the teaching team is essential to improving the overall classroom experience for teachers, paraprofessionals and students – and it may take something as simple as a 3×5 index card to accomplish. As...
Tell Me A Story: Two Fantastic Teaching Strategies to Increase Student Learning
Story Telling: Teaching Strategies to Increase and Reinforce Learning For some students, an effective way to reinforce something they have just learned is to have them place that element into a story. This gives them the opportunity to look at a concept from a...