Why Your Mindset About Student Potential Might Be Holding Them Back
Shift the Mindset, Shift the Outcomes: Why What We Believe About Students Matters Most When we believe students are capable, they start to believe it too. But when they are told, directly or indirectly, that they are “not honors-level material,” something inside them...
Meeting Student Needs and Moving Forward: Strategies That Work
When students in your classroom are not progressing at the same rate or better as their peers, supplement their learning with researched based strategies that increase achievement. These are also Tier Two interventions for Response to Intervention. How to Respond to...
Draw It So You’ll Know It – A Teaching Strategy for Visual Learners
Teachers often present information verbally and linguistically. However, many of our students are visual learners. A substantial amount of our brain power is devoted to visual processing. When we add a visual component, a drawing component, to what we are teaching,...
Know & Adjust the Reading Level of Text
Do You Know the Reading Level of Student Texts and Handouts? I’m a firm believer that teachers need to know the reading level of the materials they use in the classroom. So often, the materials we use in our classrooms are much higher than the grade level we are...