Messy student desks lead to wasted time, lost work, and student frustration. It’s important for children to learn how to manage and organize their materials, as well as be responsible for keeping them that way. Enjoy a classroom full of organized desks and organized students today! 1. Simplify Your System Color-coded folders and notebooks for […]
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Teachers are so creative with their attention-getters. We’ve got call-backs and signals, jokes and chants, all kinds of fun ways to get our students to stop what they’re doing and listen! But, if your attention-getter isn’t quite cutting it these days, I’m sharing three potential issues and how to fix them up fast! Problem #1:
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They just don’t follow directions! I hear this all the time from teachers and I’ve said it myself on many occasions. Children struggle to follow simple directions, even moments after they’ve been given. But I’ve got 5 fool-proof tricks that will end all this frustration and get your class back on track! 1. When I
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Word problems are a special kind of math challenge. Not only do they require computation skills, but they also test students’ reading comprehension and problem-solving abilities. This can be the perfect storm of frustration for many kids. But it doesn’t have to be so hard! Today, I’m sharing easy word problem solving strategies for helping
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In Word Problems Made Easy, I shared my favorite tips and tricks for helping students master math word problems. In this post, I’d like to take a closer look at one of the strategies I mentioned: Problem Solving Rounds. This powerful routine changed math instruction in my classroom forever! Problem Solving Rounds are an important
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The Clip Chart is a behavior management phenomenon that swept through classrooms across the country and eventually made it’s way IN, and very quickly OUT, of mine. I’d just had a particularly challenging year, and I was ready to try anything, so when a teammate suggested we try Behavior Clip Charts, I was all in.
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After using a Behavior Clip Chart for one semester, I quickly learned that color systems and clip charts are NOT for me. I also don’t think they’re good for children or effective in improving behavior. In my post, I Ditched My Clip Chart, and Here’s What Happened, I shared my experience with that so-called behavior
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So many classroom management strategies are designed to help teachers once the problem has already happened. But how about we start avoiding those problems in the first place! Here are 5 SUPER-POWERED strategies that can help you PREVENT management problems. 1. Cloze First Cloze Statements are simply phrases or statements where students are given part
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Teachers are stuck with the challenging task of telling parents things they don’t want to hear. Telling a parent that their child is struggling in school, making poor choices, or is otherwise not PERFECT, can be tough! But there’s good news! With some simple shifts in our language we can help parents understand our message
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Are you having trouble getting the parent involvement and support that you’d like? Most teachers say YES, but so often, we overcomplicate things and make it HARD for parents to succeed. When teachers make it EASY for parents to be involved and informed, life is easier on the teacher, too! I’ve got two tips, plus
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Unfinished student work is an ongoing challenge in any classroom. I’ve seen teachers in tears because a student ‘just won’t get anything done.’ I’ve seen teachers lose their temper because they are trying to so hard to get students caught up. And I’ve seen teachers with complicated forms for organizing who owes what work. Seen
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Teaching place value can be SOOOO frustrating. I remember teaching a lesson to 3rd graders years ago and feeling so confident in my students’ understanding of the concepts. The next day, I asked them to apply what they’d learned in a new context and quickly discovered that they most definitely DID NOT understand. Luckily, over
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