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Education
Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Paraprofessionals: How to Remember Multiple Students’ Needs
For paraprofessionals who juggle a workload that includes focusing on dozens of specific students throughout the teaching day, making sure that all of the students they work with are having their...
Teaching Strategies: Using Content Curation in the Classroom
Content curation can be one of the most effective teaching strategies to help students compare what they’re learning in the classroom with real-world examples, and gain insight into how they can...
Teaching Strategy Newsletter: Dear Susan
Last week, we posted the first of a new series; a “Dear Abby” style blog. In my “Dear Susan” blog posts, I’ll be answering questions from readers, teachers with whom I’m working, as well as...
How to Create a Firm Foundation for Inclusion and Co-teaching and One School is Doing it!
During September, I was blessed to spend a great day with some of the great administrators of Everett School District. We talked about how to successfully implement inclusive classrooms and...
Co-teachers Don’t Have Time to Use Co-teaching Models
Dear Susan: My co-teacher and I often find that we don’t have enough time for each of us to teach a specific skill or concept to our students before class time runs out. We both feel we could...
Co-teaching Models: Making time for Co-teaching, Planning a Path to Success
When co-teachers have a strategy in place, the entire classroom experience can go smoothly. Creating a co-teaching model strategy takes time, something teachers have precious little of. Yet it’s...
Collaborating with Paraprofessionals
As opposed to co-teaching, where teaching responsibilities are often shared between two colleagues, the teacher-paraprofessional relationship is a bit different, with the teacher taking more of a...
Paraprofessionals: Handling Student Behavioral Issues in the Classroom
As part of the classroom team, paraprofessionals often must deal with student behavioral issues just as their teacher does. Since it’s a question of when a behavioral issue will arise, not if,...
Dear Susan: Study Skill Teaching Strategies
I recently received this study skills question from a concerned parent who wanted teaching strategies. My answer to her question may apply or help others, so I chose to include it here for you....
Co-teaching Models: Coaching Co-Teachers to Successful Partnerships
Co-teaching Models Succeed with Coaching “I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and...
Teaching Strategies: What to Do About Those Problem Spinners in the Classroom!
I was a high school teacher during the mini-skateboard (they were officially called “Fingerboards”) craze of the early 2000’s. At the time, I worked with students who had trouble with...
Teaching Strategies: Scripts for Responding to Student Behavior
Sometimes, it helps to have an idea of how to respond to student behavior in a way that encourages students to own their actions, does not create a power struggle, and is consistent and...