Teaching Strategies
Discover best practices for improving your teaching craft.
Differentiating Your Instruction Through Seminars
Culled from higher education, seminars offer powerful opportunities to personalize instruction in a small-group format—and involve an element of student choice.194How to Help Readers Grapple With Challenging Texts
Instead of matching students to texts they can breeze through, literacy guru Tim Shanahan says that students should be engaging with challenging texts that push them out of their comfort zones.2.5kHighlighting ‘Good’ Mistakes in Student Work
Anonymously sharing students’ math mistakes can generate valuable discussions about problem-solving.401
8 Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom
Educators share their best synchronous and asynchronous strategies to boost student participation during online learning.49.3k
Is it Time to Drop ‘Finding the Main Idea’ and Teach Reading in a New Way?
Some schools are changing the way they teach reading—based on research that shows background knowledge is more critical to comprehension than general skills like ‘finding the main idea.’48.4k
4 Reading Strategies to Retire This Year (Plus 6 to Try Out!)
A look at a few popular literacy practices that shouldn’t make the cut—along with fresh strategies that experienced teachers and literacy experts recommend instead.23.4kRestoring the Joy in Teaching
It can be tough to find a way toward joyfulness when you’re overwhelmed, but you can reset and reignite your energy for teaching.6.5k
What Teachers in China Have Learned in the Past Month
An American whose classroom in Beijing is now online shares what she and her team have learned since the coronavirus hit, just as U.S. teachers make the same shift.42.6k
How Learning Happens
In this video series, we explore how educators can guide all students, regardless of their developmental starting points, to become productive and engaged learners.31.6k
5 Ways to Support Students Who Struggle With Reading Comprehension
These strategies can help students who are able to decode well but have difficulty understanding what they read—and they’re beneficial for all students.40.4k
5 Research-Backed Studying Techniques
Teachers can guide students to avoid ineffective studying habits in favor of ones that will increase their learning outcomes.51.2kCulturally Responsive Ways to Teach the History of Thanksgiving
These resources can help middle and high school students learn about the first Thanksgiving and Native Americans today.893When Reading Logs Backfire, What Can Teachers Do Instead?
To create life-long readers, ditch quotas, calendars, and logs—and replace them with strategies that get students talking about books and keeping track of the joy they experience reading.1.9kHow to Work Literacy Instruction Into All Content Areas
Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach to literacy practices across content areas, there are small, but effective shifts teachers can make to get students practicing the domain-specific skills they need.929
6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students
Support every student by breaking learning up into chunks and providing a concrete structure for each.95.1k
