Teaching Writing for Student Voice

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In this post: The importance of providing freedom for students in your writing instruction. Strategies to use when teaching writing to shift the focus to student voice. My experience and background in empowering student writers. When we think about teaching writing, we often associate it with the traditional 5 paragraph essay, a regimented guide, or a ready-made curriculum. There’s a … Read More

Strategies to Increase Critical Thinking Skills in students

Matthew JosephBlog, Engage Better, Lesson Plan Better, Personalize Student Learning Better

In This Post: The importance of helping students increase critical thinking skills. Ways to promote the essential skills needed to analyze and evaluate. Strategies to incorporate critical thinking into your instruction. We ask our teachers to be “future-ready” or say that we are teaching “for jobs that don’t exist yet.” These are powerful statements. At the same time, they give … Read More

Differentiate the Learning Not the Assignments

Kristen KoppersBlog, Lesson Plan Better, Personalize Student Learning Better

In This Post: Identify how to differentiate learning experiences versus only modifying assignments. See an example of how to differentiate your lesson instead of the materials or activities. Lighten your workload! Modify your instruction for all students to succeed instead of differentiating materials for each unique learner. Many times, we think of Differentiated Instruction (DI) as a method to make … Read More

Level Up Your Classroom With Gamification

Mary Ellen RileyEngage Better, Innovate Better, Lesson Plan Better, Manage Better, Tech Better

Level Up Your Classroom With Gamification

In This Post: Consider gamification to level-up your classroom. Gamification is simply adding game elements to something that is not a game. Students love games and may be more engaged, and more likely to retain the information when gamified. Several examples of tools to gamify any unit. Ready to make your school year memorable (in a good way)? Want to … Read More

5/16/19 – Culminations and Celebrations at the end of the year – Jacie Maslyk (@DrJacieMaslyk)

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#Mastery Chat Questions for Thursday, May 16th, 2019 Topic: Culminations and Celebrations at the End of the Year Moderators: Jacie Maslyk (@DrJacieMaslyk) Questions (8:00 ET) Intro/Welcome: Welcome to #MasteryChat! Introduce yourself to the group and tell us about a moment you celebrated this week. #MasteryChat (8:05 ET) Q1. With the end of the year in sight, how do you stay … Read More