Helping Special Education Teachers Deliver Effective Interventions
3-2-1 Chart: A Free Nonfiction Reading Center This year, my teaching partner and I are really switching up our reading block. We’re working on our own, made up version of the Daily Five. So far, we are in LOVE! In the Daily Five, students would typically read with someone as part of their daily routine. […]
Yay! I successfully survived my first day of the 2015-2016 school year! I am seriously exhausted at this point of the day. Not only did we have our first student day but we also hosted Open House from 6-7:30. Does anyone else do this on the first day? I’m wiped out. Yet here I am, […]
Flipping my classroom has dramatically impacted both the way my students learn and the way that I run my classroom each day. I often receive blog comments or emails asking how to make it all come together and be easily managed by the teacher as well as easily accessible by the students. I invite you […]
When planning lessons, I always ask myself, “Are all of my kids doing the same thing?” If that answer is yes, then I am not differentiating appropriately. It’s kinda of a nerdy passion of mine to maximize differentiation. That being said, my room is not differentiated 100% of the time. There are times when time […]
I’m incredibly sad to say that this is the second to last Learn Like a Pirate post. I have really enjoyed reading this book and I can’t wait to see the transformation in my teaching and the dynamic in my classroom next year. #bringonthestudent-ledclassroom Paul kicks off this chapter with a powerful message that really […]
Many times throughout this book, I had major AHA! moments when relating reading comprehension strategies to mathematics. This chapter, however, was the exception. I find that my students constantly struggle with completing word problems because they have a hard time “seeing” what is happening in the problem at hand. Despite knowing that they struggle, I […]
