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Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...