Co-teaching Models: The Importance of Co-Teaching for Larger Class Sizes
Employing Co-teaching Models to Support Large Classes Dear Susan: I’m a special education teacher in Illinois, and I’m reaching out to you to ask a few questions. I have been co-teaching kindergarten for four years. Our co-teaching model has been to blend the special...
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 self-control, focusing, and getting their work done. The day that a mini-skateboard...
Teaching Strategies: How to Help Students Make Good Decisions
Teaching Strategies for Decision Making I started using this problem-solving strategy with students to help them see that there were positive and negative consequences to any solution they presented to a problem they were experiencing. Originally, it was used to help...