Instructional strategies

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Differentiation is a word that is used a lot in teaching. We know a good teacher uses differentiation strategies daily to meet the needs of…

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Teacher observation tips that not only change what your administrator sees when completing a teacher evaluation, but also changes the dynamic of your classroom.

I recently decluttered my Google Drive. I still had files from undergrad. For a laugh, I glanced through some of those lesson plans and instructional strategies. More than anything, I noticed how many top-tier instructional strategies I ignored or flatly rejected. So today, I want to address my youthful, willful, arrogant self because these are 8 instructional strategies you can't ignore in high school ELA.

You’ll probably agree with me when I say, “200% more growth than peers” is quite a stretch. Or is it? In our recent nine-week action research, students who focused on visible learning strategies outperformed their peers on district standardized tests. But that’s not all. They achieved over 200% more growth than their peers. We’ll get […]

Every English language arts teacher needs a variety of successful, student led discussion strategies that will provide opportunities for student learning.

50+ Teaching Strategies To Jumpstart Your Teacher Brain by TeachThought Staff Teaching strategies are among the most important ingredients for highly-effective learning environments . In addition to literacy strategies, approaches to assessment, and grouping strategies (among many others), knowing the right teaching strategy for the right academic situation may not be a matter of expertise or training, but memory: out of sight, out of mind, yes? Which makes the following infographic from…

Learn how to apply differentiated instruction strategies to your classroom, ensuring every student has a chance to succeed each day.

What Are Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies For Teaching And Learning? by TeachThought Staff In education, louder than the call for innovation, engagement, thought, or self-direction is the call to be research-based. In fact, being research-based may even trump being data-based, the two twins of modern ed reform. The former stems, in part, from deserved skepticism of trends that have little evidence of performance, and the latter comes from a similar place. The big idea behind the both is…