Jennifer Throndsen pinpoints frontloading as an effective strategy that supports multilingual learners in both their content studies and language development. Learn how preteaching key vocabulary, background knowledge and core concepts scaffolds learning and accelerates progress.
Karin Hess’s new book exploring cognitive rigor and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge framework provides clarity and practical tools for teachers seeking to design learning experiences that truly deepen understanding. A resource for review, reflection, and refinement of practice, says Kathleen Palmieri.
You’re a Teacher Now: What’s Next? is an easy read that shares a wide range of proven practices for new teachers (and veterans) in an organized and honest way. A “definite recommendation,” says teaching professor Michelle Schwartze, who also likes the free online reproducibles.
Writing short form stories is all about revising and playing with your ideas, Kim Culbertson told the sixth graders. “Move things around. Cross things out and add others. See where the exploration of it takes you. The most important part is that you’re finding your own voice.”
Feel-good study methods don’t work. The best research data points to five active strategies as the most effective ways to build lasting knowledge. Teach these methods and we empower all our students to become more effective learners, says teacher educator Curtis Chandler.
For our students to be well educated, activist citizens who lead fulfilling lives, they need schools where fostering a culture of belonging becomes the character of the school, writes Regie Routman. It’s a place where every student feels safe, cared for, seen, heard and empowered.
“Turn and talk” has become a common practice in classrooms. But what’s really happening in those conversations? Alma Ortiz-Agib and Sunday Cummins have found that students, including English learners, benefit from using collaborative language frames to make the talk meaningful.
When Enrique Santana Carballo started teaching science in a bilingual setting, he quickly realized that many of students weren’t struggling with science but with reading. To support ELLs and students with disabilities, he introduced literacy strategies which he shares here.
Anne Jolly’s STEM By Design 2nd Edition is a well-organized and practical resource to help students respond to a wide range of real-world problems in the classroom. The book is complemented by a resource-filled companion website, writes middle school teacher Heidi Braden.
Just back from a week-long workshop on the U.S. Constitution, Sarah Cooper shares five things she learned about being the student, not the teacher, in the classroom. The event underscored that human connection is paramount for creating the conditions necessary to learn content.
