Teaching Strategies
Discover best practices for improving your teaching craft.
Bringing Interval Instruction to Your Classroom
Research finds that lessons that go from direct instruction to active learning and back again can increase students’ understanding.178Meaningful Learning to End the Year Strong
These end-of-year activities for elementary and middle school can help ensure that all students continue to learn while having fun.How to Use a Chatbot to Create Engaging Do Now Activities
When you let generative AI like ChatGPT be your collaborator, you can save time and produce just the right relevant quick activities.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.28 Ways to Quickly Check for Understanding
From sketching comics to drafting tweets, these fun—and fast—ways to check for understanding are creative and flexible.2.6k27 Super-Smart, Teacher-Tested Closing Activities
Quick (and fun) strategies to check for understanding, reinforce learning, and identify misconceptions in the last moments of class.2.9k
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?22.1kShining a Light on Dyscalculia
Here’s how to recognize what might be behind a student’s difficulty with math as well as strategies for teaching them.518Should More Time Be Spent Learning Math Facts?
As schools nationwide contend with declining math scores, some districts are dedicating more time to the practice of foundational skills.10.1k
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?76.1kTapping Into the Metacognition of Mistakes
Getting kids to identify and classify the types of mistakes they make gives them the tools they need to drive their own learning.1.3k
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.’58.5k
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.54.9k60-Second Strategy: Whiteboard Relay
The team competition is fierce in this informal assessment activity, in which students have to work together to win.7k
8 Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom
Educators share their best synchronous and asynchronous strategies to boost student participation during online learning.50.4k
