Teaching Strategies
Discover best practices for improving your teaching craft.
5 Research-Backed Literacy Strategies That Go Beyond Phonics
Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are grounded in science and tested by expert educators.123Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Integrating Music and Art in Elementary School ELA
These strategies help upper elementary students strengthen their visualization skills and understanding of story elements.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Why Movement Matters in Math
These strategies for building controlled movement into learning can help middle school math students stay focused and engaged.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.A More Efficient and Productive Way to Conduct Math Assessments
Here’s how to assign graded work that more accurately assesses elementary students’ learning and saves time.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.27 Quick Win, Low-Prep Ways to Integrate Tech This Year
These teacher-tested activities use free or familiar tools to help students think critically, create meaningfully, and collaborate with each other.122Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Using ‘Tell Me More’ Prompts to Make Learning Stick
Asking students to explain how they arrived at an answer is a powerful strategy for making a concept more memorable.Your 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.7 Ways to Get Math Students to Show Their Thinking
Math isn’t just about answers—the process matters, too. These strategies spotlight reasoning and reveal student thinking.4.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Setting Students Up for Success During Independent Work Time
Teachers can use these ideas to coach students on how to stay focused and deepen their learning outside of whole group instruction.209Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Making Retrieval Practice a Classroom Routine
By regularly working in activities that get students to recall content they’ve learned in the past and apply it, teachers can ensure deeper understanding.Adapting Gradual Release of Responsibility for English Language Learners
This model provides scaffolded active engagement and opportunities for guided practice to help students master new skills.237Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How Meditation Helps Me Teach a Tricky Physics Concept
Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own breathing.110Your content has been saved!
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How Learning Happens
In this series, we explore how educators can guide all students, regardless of their developmental starting points, to become productive and engaged learners.102.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.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.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.
