Test Taking Strategies for Student Success
Snitching vs. Reporting
Once kids reach secondary school, the most talkative elementary school tattletales tend to clam up, fearing backlash from their peers if they tell on someone. This can make it hard to get important information from students, even when the situation is dangerous or...
Giving New Teachers Strategies for Success
As teachers working in the trenches, we don’t often have the opportunity to step back and evaluate our performance, come up with new strategies to help students, or receive honest feedback on our work in the classroom. Sometimes the only feedback we get is based on...Teaching Test Vocabulary: A Test-Taking Strategy
Students need both information stored in long-term memory and test-taking strategies in order to do well on tests. Without both of these skills, our students are at a serious disadvantage. While many teachers and parents often teach students to think positively...