and contractions. Students practice orally and in writing using Lalilo’s playful interactives and Nearpod activities. You can use Nearpod’s Draw It feature and use graphic organizers as the background to support students’ decoding skills. ...
Many teachers associate fidgety students and movement-based lesson plans with young learners. However, high school students need to move, too. It’s often believed that students should be “mature enough” to sit still for several hours, but they are just as likely to become exhausted and frus...
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" about it five times. You can apply this to most lesson plans you are teaching, especially in regard to literature or history. Encourage students to do this on their own to get to the root of problems and to think about things more dee...
Lesson planning is a necessary first step in implementing curriculum themes. Creating a lesson plan with clearly defined Learning objectives, goals, and a metric for measuring progress toward these goals is vital to ensuring students benefit as much as possible from weekly lessons. Ask questions of...
The only true rule for a creative classroom is that it accommodates a number of learning approaches. Teachers are then able to use more of their individual talents when they design lesson plans. They may be better able to accommodate different types of students, such asintroverts versus extrover...
The results of multiple interviews and lesson observations of history teachers in England suggest that teachers conceptualize empathy in bounded but not parsimonious ways, shaped by the realities of trying to teach it to students; that they select from broad repertoires of strategies, including major ...
The first step in getting students involved with their personalized learning plans is letting them think about their goals. While this may seem obvious, traditional core standards do not give adequate time to reflect on their aspirations and goals. Start your school year with students reflecting on...
Good lesson planning is a blend of knowing your students, following early learning standards, and choosing activities that encourage exploration, problem-solving, and language growth. The best preschool lesson planning tools do more than just give you a template—they actually help you figure out th...