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 most useful teaching strategies to help motivate students. But it can...
Co-teaching Models – Skills and Rigor: Kicking Co-Teaching Up A Notch
Exploring the Teach Half, Then Switch Co-teaching Model I walked into an eighth-grade language arts classroom in Kinston, North Carolina, to find two co-teachers and 28 students absolutely focused on the lesson. The desks and chairs had been arranged into two...
Teaching Strategy – A Dual Approach to Test-taking That Empowers Students
Can a student benefit by having a text read aloud to them rather than reading along silently? Can he or she do better on a test that’s given orally rather than silently writing the answers? How about letting the student decide? That’s right, giving students a choice...