Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Helping or Hovering?
One important issue that we often see when teaching students with special needs is the difference between helping students to complete tasks themselves and hovering over them. The Council for...
Homework, A Letter To Teachers
Dear Teachers, My former child and teenage self wanted to share something with you about homework. Something that may help you assign homework that will educate kids like me. You see, I have a...
Teaching Summarizing Skills
Summarizing is a life-long skill that greatly affects student learning. It is also a skill that students struggle with significantly. One of the worst consequences of a lack of summarizing skill...
Four Easy Teaching Strategies for Summarizing Skills
Summarizing is a life-long skill that greatly affects student learning. It is also a skill that students struggle with significantly. One of the worst consequences of a lack of summarizing skills...
Conference Table Style Flexible Grouping!
A Class Divided in Half One day, while coaching at a middle school in North Carolina, I entered a small classroom, found that the teachers had divided the class in half, and were doing...
Non-Linguistic Vocab Interventions
Since RTI was originally created to help lower elementary school children with literacy issues, much of the existing material on RTI focuses on vocabulary or linguistic interventions. It is...
7 Easy-to-Implement Non-Linguistic Vocabulary Interventions
Since RTI was originally created to help lower elementary school children with literacy issues, much of the existing material on RTI focuses on vocabulary interventions or linguistic...
Teaching Fact vs Opinion for Reading Comprehension
One of the most important skills that students need to improve their reading comprehension is the ability to distinguish between facts and opinions, a higher order thinking skill. This skill is...
Teaching Strategies: Fact vs Opinion
One of the most important higher order thinking skills that students need to improve their academic performance is the ability to distinguish between facts and opinions. This skill is...
Positive Reinforcement
By Guest Blogger Jeff Stimpson “Positive reinforcement,” a theory of childrearing that is the opposite of “bribery” and sort of the opposite of “punishment” offers several ideas for heading-off...
Using Visuals to Teach Vocabulary
What if we taught English vocabulary the same way we teach foreign languages? Popular language-learning programs teach vocabulary with visuals – meaningful pictures and other visual cues kids can...
12 Brain-Based Learning Principles
Many of the instruction methods and tips that I discuss in my books are “brain-based”, meaning that they are based on the brain’s needs as discovered through brain research. Renate Nummela Caine...