Instructional Strategies
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Scaffolding Instruction
Anticipatory Sets
Project Based and Cooperative Learning
The Ultimate Cooperative Learning Strategies Guide
Cooperative learning takes the teacher off the stage and allows students to learn from one another by working through cooperative learning strategies to reach a common goal. This positive interdependence allows students to hold one another accountable for sharing the workload and learning.
7 Tips for Running Small Groups at the High School Level
I think it can be really easy to ignore small group counseling at the high school level all together... you have to find out how to make it work for you and your school. Once you find some small successes, I think you'll get on a roll and find it's your NEW FAVORITE part of your school counseling program! Small group counseling at the high school level is such a treasure! Here are 7 Tips for Running Small Groups at the High School Level: 1- Do a needs assessment, so you make sure you are…
Using Stations in ELA
Incorporating Movement in the Classroom
Best Practices: The Gallery Walk — Mud and Ink Teaching
Using the Gallery Walk instructional strategy to teach important classroom routines & structures Teaching Duration: 1-3 class periods What is a GALLERY WALK? A gallery walk is a kinesthetic strategy that help students learn information. It closely resembles the idea of a jig
Curriculum, Unit, and Lesson Planning
Psychology: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Practice + Distance Learning Version
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: First came the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, but then in 1943, the most famous pyramid of them all was BORN! Humanistic psychologist, Abraham Maslow published, "A Theory of Human Motivation," describing five stages of growth in humans, and most commonly presented as...
Sequencing Printables (Print & Digital)
Teaching Sequencing? This resource has everything for your week of lesson plans. Unique ideas, anchor chart, graphic organizer, foldable, assessment, lessons and more! So many engaging activities to choose from to teach sequencing of a text. Transition words such as before, after, and first are covered! Much more than just worksheets, these classroom tested lessons will be perfect for your elementary class! You fun teaching while students have fun learning!
Backwards Design
Use UBD to build a high-quality unit that is cohesive and focused using backwards planning (also called backwards design). Let’s talk through an example of how to begin with the end in mind in planning a unit in my English classroom. #highschoolenglish #englishlanguagearts #middleschoolela #ela #backwardsdesign
Differentiation and the Exceptional Child
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Psychology: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Practice + Distance Learning Version
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: First came the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, but then in 1943, the most famous pyramid of them all was BORN! Humanistic psychologist, Abraham Maslow published, "A Theory of Human Motivation," describing five stages of growth in humans, and most commonly presented as...
The Ultimate Cooperative Learning Strategies Guide
Cooperative learning takes the teacher off the stage and allows students to learn from one another by working through cooperative learning strategies to reach a common goal. This positive interdependence allows students to hold one another accountable for sharing the workload and learning.
Never Again…. It’s Time to Scaffold Instruction | Rockin Resources
Learning is lifelong and students need support as they gather knowledge and skills. This can be done through scaffolding instruction. There were times in my earlier years of teaching that I didn’t use scaffolding in my instruction. I struggled to make sure all of my students were learning and understanding specific concepts and skills in...
How to Effectively Scaffold Your Instruction | Rockin Resources
In this blog post, we’ll look at how to effectively scaffold your instruction and help students build increasingly sophisticated skills. We’ll also look at how you can help foster growth and independence through scaffolding. Scaffolding and Differentiating The methodology behind scaffolding is multi-faceted. Scaffolding can mean providing support and then removing it slowly. It...
Calling a Classroom Audible for the Win
Calling Classroom Audible is part of instructional adjustment and making sure classroom instruction and lesson planning meets the needs of your students, classroom, and the current climate. To pretend that current events do not affect the classroom is to ignore the fact that teaching is political. Here are options and reasons and ideas for adjusting curricular scaffolding. #mooreenglish @moore-english.com
How to Assess Close Reading and Annotation / Moore English
Close reading and annotation are part of critical thinking in the classroom. These strategies work for any content but are especially important for English, reading, writing, and literature classes. Using these reading strategies, students can take charge of a text and their interpretation of the text. With these skills, students can analyze an author's purpose, main idea, tone, and use of language. In this post, learn the DO's and DON'Ts of assessing close reading.
How to Help Students Develop Self-Efficacy @moore-english.com #mooreenglish
Self-efficacy will help students in all the areas of academic achievement. Students with higher degrees of self-efficacy are better equipped to handle and respond to trauma and their social-emotional needs. A higher degree of self-efficacy positions students to meet and exceed the benchmarks in state standards and learning targets. Finally, a higher degree of self-efficacy prepares students to climb up Maslow's hierarchy and up Bloom's taxonomy.
Best Practices: The Gallery Walk — Mud and Ink Teaching
Using the Gallery Walk instructional strategy to teach important classroom routines & structures Teaching Duration: 1-3 class periods What is a GALLERY WALK? A gallery walk is a kinesthetic strategy that help students learn information. It closely resembles the idea of a jig
40 Texts for Teaching Literary Criticism
Not all high school English curricula include literary criticism. For this reason, it can be hard to find high-qaulity resources for teaching lit crit in secondary English. With this in mind, I've put together a collection of 40 poems, dramas, novels, short stories, essays, articles, and informational texts to use with literary criticism. This collection covers the major schools of literary theory, including biographical criticism, formalism, New Criticism, Marxism, feminist theory…