Responsive Teaching to Culture, Race, and Poverty
Being a humble servant in the art of teaching has caused me to pause and reflect on my teaching regularly. In a previous post I wrote about how I wanted all my students to succeed, but what was I actually doing to make that happen? I started to learn how...
Culturally Responsive Teaching By Supporting The Mother Tongue
The language used in different in cultures influence how people think, understand, feel, and interact with the world. The obvious role of language is that it allows us to transmits information in written and spoken forms, but it is much richer than that....
Apps That Improve Differentiation
Technology offers teachers many advantages to enhance learning, and differentiation is what this post will focus on. Just as every student grows and develops at different rates, they learn in different ways and at different speeds too. Technology is making it easier...
Differentiated Instruction Supports All Learners
Students can take different paths to the same destination. Differentiated classrooms offer students a variety of choice to help meet their learning styles. This allows them to become self-directed and more engaged. Removing the competitive mind frame of...
Seesaw Record Draw and Post
Seesaw is a great educational app that helps students take ownership of their learning and create a digital portfolio to track their progress. In this lesson we used Seesaw to help identify the parts of the ear we labeled during an IPC Unit about hearing.
Kahoot Quiz Show Educational App
Kahoot is the perfect app to create discussions, quizzes or surveys to any subject or topic. Use it as an assessment or a fun way to help students learn material. The app is designed with game-based pedagogy in mind.
Reading Strategy Using the Magic Wand
Reading pointers are good for early readers as well as advance readers. Find out some creative ideas to make reading pointers with your students.
Classroom Management Songs
Find out what songs to play in your classroom to improve your teaching and classroom management.
Audiation For Early Education
Music is a valuable tool to help enhance the learning of our students. By incorporating additional methods to help learners experience more from music, we will also improve their overall cognitive ability. Audiation is a great tool to add to your lessons.