The Peer Assisted Learning Strategy in the Classroom
Use PALS to incorporate teaching and learning into activities for students. Create an atmosphere of learning that caters to every learner’s skills and abilities.
What is the Peer Assisted Learning Strategy (PALS)?
The Peer Assisted Learning Strategy (PALS) is a class-wide peer-tutoring program that addresses the different learning needs of every student. This cooperative learning […]
Writing Strategies to Improve Student Writing
Use the SRSD concept to choose writing strategies to enhance student writing.
Many teachers struggle with how to effectively teach specific skills. It is crucial that teachers are equipped with specific strategies that address specific skills.Being fully equipped with these teaching instructions can enhance student learning and help achieve important learning goals.
One common skill […]
GRADUATE Course – Common Core Implementation for All Classrooms
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What is Fluency Oriented Reading Instruction?
What is Fluency Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI)?
Fluency Oriented Reading Instruction is a teaching instruction that aims to improve reading among students. It is often used as a prevention strategy or a whole classroom strategy to reading. FORI focuses on oral reading competency by using many different oral-reading practices. The three main aspects of […]
One Stop Guide to Planning a Virtual Field Trip
Coordinate a guided exploration through the world on the web with these pre-planning tips…
Catching the attention of a diverse group of students, sustaining their interest in a subject, going beyond basic book knowledge, presenting experiences that will be etched in their memory and helping them make real-life connections – these are some […]
What Are Power Notes?
What Are Power Notes?
Power Notes is an organizational tool that helps students systematically organize and categorize information from any assigned topic. This writing strategy incorporates a technique of outlining where students can identify, differentiate and organize information into main ideas and supportive details.
In this strategy the ideas are given a numerical power rating […]
What is Team-Based-Learning?
Team-Based Learning is a strategy that helps create a collaborative learning environment. This strategy requires students to take responsibility for their learning as well as work as a team.
What is Team-Based Learning?
Team-based Learning is a structured collaborative learning strategy developed by Larry K. Michaelsen in the early 1970’s. The instructional strategy as […]
Improving Communicative Skills with Assistive Technology
Help differently-abled students get the most out of learning with assistive technology
A teacher’s primary goal is to ensure that students understand the concepts that they are taking the time to teach. To ensure this, teachers need to bear in mind the varying learning abilities and needs of the students. Every student is unique […]
Resources for Guided Reading
Bring Guided Reading into the classroom with these helpful ideas.
Creating independent readers and thinkers is every teacher’s goal. In order to achieve this, teachers can help students develop these skills by using the Guided Reading Approach.
Guided Reading is an instructional approach where a teacher works with a small group of students who demonstrate […]
Be a Listening Teacher
It is only natural to expect students to listen (pay attention) to their teachers, but what about vice-versa? Do teachers’ pay attention to their students?
Reflect on your listening skills and answer the following questions:
Do you constantly interrupt students when they talk?
Do you try to hasten conversations with students using nonverbal cues […]
