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Grouping Students in Math

15 Mar

Grouping students in math can be a very complex process. If you take all the factors that are necessary for a group to function…personality, math ability, and ability to work in a group together, then you may find that no perfect combination exists. Here are some reasons you may decide to group students: You may group students because you believe that students can learn from one ...

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Classroom Management, Middle School

Teaching Math Vocabulary that Sticks

8 Mar

For math to be accessible to students, math vocabulary must be taught! Let's talk about teaching math vocabulary in a way that sticks! Let’s see how important math vocabulary is to understanding and solving this problem. Could you solve this problem? I covered up a vital piece of information needed to solve this problem to emulate what a student might experience without knowing ...

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Lesson Planning, Math Concepts

5 Statistics Activities for Middle School

1 Mar

Data and statistics is such a fun topic to teach in middle school math! The relevance and hands-on nature of analyzing and displaying data made it engaging for my students and myself! Data and statistics usually fell to the very last unit in my scope and sequence which meant I was tired, and the amount of creative energy I had to put into my lessons was waning. Just me? So I thought I ...

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Lesson Planning, Math Concepts

How to Prioritize Your To Do List

22 Feb

Prioritizing your to do list can be a challenge when your to-do list is never ending. Just when you feel like you are ahead, something goes wrong. Teaching has so many variables that Murphy’s Law will inevitably come into play. With that said, there are some things that we can do to manage and prioritize our to-do list, so that we get what we need done, done. Have a Weekly Meeting ...

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Teacher Organization

Time Management for Teachers: Productivity Tips

15 Feb

This month has been all about time management for teachers and organization for your planning period and your email inbox. Today we will tackle a macro system - the 5 things I do each week to keep things running smoothly. Tip #1 - Start with a Clean Slate We all know how impossible it is to start a task or be productive when you are working on top of a mess. For me, I can’t start ...

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Teacher Organization, Back to School

Email Organization for Teachers

8 Feb

Does your email inbox make you feel overwhelmed? Every year around the new year, I attempt to get my inbox under control. Here are some email organization tips that I found to be practical and doable. This month we are tackling everything organization and time management! If you didn't read last week's post, check it out: Time Saving Tips for Your Planning Period and be sure to check ...

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Classroom Technology, Teacher Organization

Time Saving Tips for Your Teacher Planning Period

1 Feb

A teacher’s planning period is sacred (or it should be), but it never feels like enough time to complete the 62,000 tasks a teacher needs to do each day. This is why teachers so often work nights or the weekends. Let’s talk about some ways to improve the efficiency of this time.  Note: No school is the same, you may have one 90 minute planning period or two 45 minute planning ...

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Teacher Organization

Strategies for Teaching Math Concepts

25 Jan

Let's discuss strategies for teaching math concepts using the CRA framework. Remember that the CRA framework has proven to help students grasp difficult math concepts. If you are scratching your head asking yourself, “What is the CRA framework?” be sure to go back and read this post. What is the CRA? I like this definition best. “The CRA is a three-stage learning process where ...

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Lesson Planning, Math Concepts, Math Intervention

Higher Level Thinking with Bloom’s Taxonomy

11 Jan

Higher level thinking is a goal for many teachers. Students retain knowledge when they have thought deeply about it. And in order to get our students to think at a deeper level, we have to be asking questions that require them to access those parts of the brain.  Encouraging higher level thinking is so interconnected to your classroom culture, the rigor of your content, and then ...

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Lesson Planning, Math Concepts

Unpacking Math Standards When Lesson Planning

4 Jan

Unpacking math standards helps teachers build the foundation for what content they are teaching to students. Subsequently, unpacking math standards provides a framework to create actionable lessons. Essentially, unpacking math standards helps us answer these two questions: What are students learning?How will they learn it? This is part 1 of our Instructional Design series. Come ...

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