Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Assumptions Can Blind Us When Dealing With Behavior Problems
Often, students with special needs have trouble communicating how they’re feeling or if they have a problem that is affecting their ability to learn. This may often lead to behavior problems with...
Dear Susan: Visual Math Strategies to Help Kids
Dear Susan, I will be starting as a temporary one-to-one teaching assistant with a 7th grader on the spectrum. I'd love any links to articles that can help me to help him grasp algebra. –...
Teaching Strategies – Providing Students with Choice
Teaching Strategies to Empower Students How do we help our students to see the big picture – to think around a question or math problem, to visualize it from different angles? How can we round...
Teaching Strategies & Tools to Help You and Your Students Excel In the Classroom
Most of us are excited to get back into the classroom and teach a new group of students at the beginning of a new school year. Many of us are thinking about new teaching strategies to inspire...
Bring Joy Into your Classroom Next Year… Here’s How!
This summer, paint your classroom! Here’s why: Color has an impact on students’ ability to learn, grow and achieve. As it turns out, quite a lot. Bright colors and fun shapes engage kids...
Teaching Strategies: Use speech-to-text software to make life easier for you and your students!
Speech-to-text can be a real game-changer in the classroom, especially for students who have difficulty getting their thoughts onto paper. And today, speech-to-text programs and apps are...
I Visited a Forest School in China – What I Found Was Amazing!
Editor's Note: this is Part 2 of a two-part article about schools Susan Fitzell visited during her trip to China in February of 2018. Click here to read Part 1. According to The Forest School...
I Visited a School for Autism in China – You Won’t Believe What I Learned!
I recently had the opportunity to visit my daughter while she was in China on a short-term training assignment for her company. While I was there, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to visit...
Teaching Strategies – Noisy Fidgeting in the Classroom: A Solution to a Solution
Dear Susan: I have a question about one of the fidget tools that you mentioned in a teaching strategies workshop we attended with you at Henry Wilson Memorial last year. You suggested using...
Teaching Strategies – Use a timer in your classroom
Who uses a timer in their classroom for lessons? I know that some are not big fans of using a timer for any reason, while others find (and research bears this out) that a timer can be one of the...
Teaching Strategies for All Ability Levels in a Larger Classroom
In any general class, there are students of different ability levels and, correspondingly, grade levels. Direct teaching the entire class together can sometimes leave higher-grade, higher-ability...
A Co-teaching Model for Bringing Out the Hidden Skills in Your Co-teaching
Where can the co-teaching model “teach half then switch” really help co-teachers shine? In helping teachers with additional skills and knowledge use those skills to enhance the lesson and reach...