Teaching Strategies
Discover best practices for improving your teaching craft.
Warming Up Cold Calling by Writing Ideas Down First
When students can respond to questions on mini-whiteboards prior to being called on, they feel more prepared—and everyone participates in thinking through the answers.Your 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!
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How Learning Happens: Instructional Shifts
Dig into our collection of classroom practice videos grounded in the science of learning and find something to try in your own instruction—it could have an outsized impact on your students’ learning.334.9kYour 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.Streaming Toward Reading Fluency
When students record themselves reading aloud using an app—and then listen back to reflect on their own pacing and expression—their fluency improves over time.Writing Notes by Hand for Better Processing
When teachers regularly pause during lectures so students can synthesize their thoughts with handwritten notes, content is more likely to stick.Getting Teens Hooked on Books With First Chapter Fridays
By reading aloud in middle and high school, teachers can expose students to new ideas, genres, and authors—and get them excited about books.
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.1.9MYour 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.Which Reading Strategies to Try, and Which to Ditch
Research shows that some popular activities for reading instruction don’t actually result in more fluent readers—so we rounded up the most classroom-worthy ones.1.5MYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.60-Second Strategy: Whisper It in Your Hand
A simple routine gives everyone more think time before sharing their responses—and helps manage students’ enthusiasm for shouting out answers.37.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Just Like Phonics, Comprehension Requires Explicit Teaching
Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.63.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How to Differentiate Without Splitting Students Up
Advice for teachers who want to make sure everyone in their classroom works and learns in tandem.89.4kYour content has been saved!
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