Teaching Strategies
Discover best practices for improving your teaching craft.
Motivating Students Through Effective Assignment Design
Teachers in all grades can apply these strategies for presenting concise, appealing, student-friendly assignments.126Your content has been saved!
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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.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.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.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.3 Strategies to Effectively Teach Science Vocabulary
Using engaging, in-context strategies helps elementary students truly understand new terms.366Your 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.106.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Guiding Students to Learn Math Facts—Without Timed Tests
Students can develop fluency with math facts even without timed tests or other speed checks.
60-Second Strategies for Educators
Our popular series of short videos that break down effective classroom practices for every grade level in literally one minute—all in one place. How’s that for a quick win?30.9kYour content has been saved!
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Why Are Some Kids Thriving During Remote Learning?
Though remote learning during the pandemic has brought many challenges, some students seem to be thriving in the new circumstances. What can we learn from them?75.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.23 Ways to Quiet a Chaotic Middle School Class
Teacher-tested attention-getting routines to help you quickly restore calm and focus to noisy middle school classrooms.54 Excellent, Low-Stakes Writing Prompts
Across grade levels, engaging and creative writing prompts encourage kids to explore their opinions, reflect on experiences, and build strong arguments.
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.’56.3kYour content has been saved!
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