9-12 High School
Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for helping students develop in grades 9-12.
Representing Student Proficiency and Progress With Visual Rubrics
By creating a visual representation of students’ performance, teachers can help them make sense of their skills and areas for growth.171Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Giving Students Time and Confidence to Build Their Metacognition Skills
A high school teacher subtly encourages students to develop an appreciation for the “in-between” steps on the path of learning.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Getting the Most Out of the Reader’s Notebook
In high school, reading instruction sometimes gets short shrift. Interactive notebooks can increase students’ intrinsic motivation to read.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Teaching Students How to Make Movies to Document Their Learning
Using moviemaking as a form of engagement and assessment centers students’ voices.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.6 Foundational Ways to Scaffold Student Learning
A collection of evidence-backed tips to help students cross the bridge from confusion to clarity.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.3 Ways to Help Students Overcome the Forgetting Curve
Our brains are wired to forget things unless we take active steps to remember. Here’s how you can help students hold on to what they learn.How Accessible Tech Can Promote Empathy and Collaboration
A middle school design and technology teacher breaks down a three-project unit that nicely overlaps with STEAM content.108Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Making Math Review a High-Energy Game
In the 100 Squares Challenge, math review takes the form of friendly—but fierce!—competition, inspiring students to complete problems under pressure.Intentionally Slowing Down to Ensure That Students Learn Material Deeply
Teachers who are tempted to race through the curriculum to cover everything may want to reconsider and slow down a bit so that students can learn the most important content better.Building Classroom Community Through Daily Dedications
When students share stories about those who have inspired and impacted them, the whole classroom feels more connected.56.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Why Students Don’t Ask for Help—and How to Change That
These three simple shifts can help students realize that asking for help is an expectation in your class and boost their self-efficacy.Jump-Starting Academic Learning With Movement and Dance
The benefits of movement in the classroom aren’t limited to younger students. Pairing new words and concepts with gestures or dance moves locks in understanding—and active brain breaks prime students to learn even more.24.7kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.A Student-Centered Model of Blended Learning
When educators at a Washington, DC, high school ditched their lectures and devised a self-paced blended learning model, their students thrived.82kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.3 Ways to Help Students Build Attention Stamina
These simple tools and strategies can improve focus in the classroom.Getting Rid of Zeros Won’t Fix the Grade Book
Well-meaning efforts to assess learning accurately have led some schools to set 50 as the lowest grade, but that can have negative consequences. Here’s a better solution.
