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 students bored and perhaps acting out, while lower-ability students may...
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...