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Empowering Students With Supportive Coaching
These strategies can help bolster elementary learners’ confidence by showing them that you believe in their potential.Your content has been saved!
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Approaching Experiential Learning as a Continuum
Teachers can consider 12 characteristics of experiential learning to make lessons more or less active for students.Your content has been saved!
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How to Build Better, More Effective Tests and Quizzes
Your tests might be falling short due to a few fixable missteps. Here’s how educators are fine-tuning their approach for better, more accurate results.Your content has been saved!
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The Proven Benefits of Grading Less
By shifting their focus from letter grades to meaningful feedback, teachers can unlock deeper learning, foster motivation, and minimize bias in the classroom.Your content has been saved!
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3 Ways New Teachers Can Pace Themselves
Instead of overexerting yourself at the start of the year, try this advice from a veteran on how to meet expectations and enjoy the work.Your content has been saved!
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Teaching Self-Assessment in World Language Classes
Challenging middle school students to take ownership of their learning helps boost their independence at a critical age.106Your content has been saved!
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Getting Off to a Good Start as a New Secondary Teacher
Before the internet, teachers faced a scarcity of resources to help them grow, but now they’re inundated with tips. These two veterans cut through the clutter.110Your content has been saved!
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Using Checklists to Support Hands-On Science Learning
Working at their own pace with a scaffold allows students to build knowledge and have positive learning experiences.139Your content has been saved!
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30 Ways to Bring Calm to a Noisy High School Classroom
From 'finding the lull' to the magic of a dramatic whisper, these teacher-tested strategies quickly get high school students focused and back on track. - Curriculum Planning
Bringing Social Studies to Life With Data
Middle school teachers can guide students to analyze real-world data to gain a deep understanding of course content.128Your content has been saved!
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15 Quick (and Mighty) Retrieval Practices
From concept maps to flash cards to Pictionary, these activities help students reflect on—and remember—what they’ve learned. - Classroom Management
Managing Your Class Without Collective Punishment
Even in moments of frustration, teachers can hold disruptive students accountable without punishing the class as a group.2.7kYour content has been saved!
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3 Games to Amp Up Reading Instruction
Gamifying literacy and phonics lessons teaches students valuable social-emotional skills, gives them regular movement breaks, and increases their engagement. - Brain-Based Learning
7 Study Habits to Teach Kids This School Year
Studying is critical to academic success—but many students have never been shown how to do it effectively. - Learning Environments
27 Ways to Optimize Your Classroom Design for Better Learning
A research-based lineup of smart, effective classroom design tips that support deep learning, reduce distraction, and build belonging.
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Mindfulness Strategies for Young Learners
Easy-to-implement practices can support self-regulation and overall well-being in the early years.147Your content has been saved!
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Guiding Students to Overcome Learned Helplessness
New teachers can create an environment where students feel supported and understand that mistakes are part of the learning process.332Your content has been saved!
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Using Restorative Practices in Preschool
Rather than rely on external rewards or punishment, these classroom management strategies focus on building community.317Your content has been saved!
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Establishing Connections in a New Classroom Community
This low-stakes get-to-know-you game builds community, confidence, and curiosity—key ingredients for a positive classroom culture. - Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
How to Incorporate Student Feedback to Improve SEL
Meaningful input and active engagement from high school students can transform a school’s approach to social and emotional learning.255Your content has been saved!
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41 Elementary Classroom Jobs to Build Shared Responsibility and Community
Classroom jobs help students feel seen, trusted, and excited to contribute to their classroom community.612Your content has been saved!
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Make Science Class Rules Stick With First-Week Labs
Teachers can use simple, engaging experiments to get right into some science while going over expectations and policies.192Your content has been saved!
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22 Fun Ways to Spark Classroom Connections
These engaging, low-stakes, and teacher-tested activities can help students quickly warm up to each other—and to you. - Classroom Management
How Classroom Jobs for Teens Instill Responsibility
When middle and high school students take ownership of tasks in their classroom regularly, they build a culture of teamwork and support. - Inquiry-Based Learning
Creating Authentic Learning Experiences in Early Childhood Classrooms
Bringing in outside experts and doing fieldwork can make project-based learning an invaluable experience for young learners.170Your content has been saved!
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Recognizing and Addressing Emotional Overload to Better Support Students
Teachers may misinterpret behaviors as laziness when their students are actually working beyond their emotional limit.209Your content has been saved!
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3 Ways to Help Students Build Attention Stamina
These simple tools and strategies can improve focus in the classroom. - Mental Health
Supporting the Mental Health Needs of High-Achieving Students
Some students who are thriving academically struggle with imposter syndrome and would benefit from specific supports.431Your content has been saved!
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5 Ways for School Leaders to Support Teachers’ Parental Leave
These tips can help ensure that on-leave teachers, their students, and long-term substitutes have the tools and backing they need.181Your content has been saved!
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Supporting Teens With Mental Health Issues
A teacher working in a mental health facility shares strategies that general education teachers can use to ease students’ anxiety and frustration so they can focus on learning.938Your content has been saved!
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