A website dedicated to helping teachers become even better teachers!
Looking for a quick, easy tried and true differentiation strategy for improving your students’ math computation skills? Look no further – a simple sheet of graph paper can improve students’ math arithmetic skills for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division! – And fractions, decimals, equations, and pretty much any other type of math you can think of! ((Keep reading – there’s…
Read More
Inside: Create student leaders and develop leadership skills with these leadership resources. They’re engaging and enjoyable for students, yet easy for teachers. Creating Student Leaders doesn’t have to be difficult! In fact, I’m here to make sure it’s easy for you as a teacher, yet engaging and fun for students. Create Student Leaders Many student leadership resources are aimed at…
Read More
Teaching Money Skills – Part 1 Students must learn how to count money. It’s a basic life skill that every student needs for independence. Teaching money skills doesn’t have to be tough! Good scaffolding and outside the box strategies to the rescue! Skip counting and working with coins can be easily worked into daily routines and stations. Maybe you’ll find that…
Read More
Provide your students with the tools to solve addition and subtraction word problems with this easy-to-use CUBES word problem strategy! This strategy works by because students are given a solid, concrete method to organize information. Math word problems are always a bug-a-boo to teach – but they don’t have to be when students break the problem down into smaller pieces….
Read More
Inside: Here’s a step-by-step guide for teaching students to identify textual evidence and support answers to text-based questions with text evidence from passages. Do you have as much trouble as I do getting students to look back in the reading and find answers from the text? In order to provide high quality written responses to questions, students need to…
Read More
Inside: Students love this memorable area of a triangle foldable activity for student interactive notebooks. Your students are sure to remember this area of a triangle lesson with its silly, funny, and memorable love story! Teaching the area of a triangle isn’t the most exciting lesson in the world, but that can change with a bit of creativity and a…
Read More
Inside: Trying to keep your students engaged and motivated for learning during Halloween and fall? You’ll love these simple, easy to implement tips and strategies. Ready to take advantage of students’ Halloween excitement and motivation – and direct that energy towards math and academics? So am I! The best part about autumn, Halloween, and the upcoming holidays is that you…
Read More
Inside: Special education IEP checklist for teachers to track each student’s supports. Record accommodations, modifications, interventions, and supports for IEPs, 504s, and special education. We all know the importance of supporting struggling students, at-risk learners, and special education students. Keeping track of who gets what accommodation? That’s another story. (And if you’re confused about accommodations versus modifications, etc., click here…
Read More
Inside: Accommodations vs. Modifications. Strategies vs. Interventions. What’s the difference? Read on to find the answer and learn what every teacher needs to know about academic supports for students. I’ll never forget sitting in an IEP meeting during my first year of teaching. I was a new teacher and felt nervous conducting meetings with parents, fellow teachers, and my principal….
Read More
Ready for the end of the school year? Use these checklists to make packing up a breeze. Learn how to pack up your classroom at the end of the school year! Packing up the classroom at the end of the school year. You want to do it right – but yet you really don’t. You want to just throw everything…
Read More
