Teaching Strategies: Using Video as a Teaching Tool
Many teachers avoid teaching strategies that include using online video in the classroom due to the hassle. Accessing the content can be difficult — a website may be blocked, streaming video may stutter and start buffering, and downloading a video file may not be any...
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...