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Chat Stations
Concept Attainment
Crumple & Shoot
In-Class Flip
Inductive Learning
Jigsaw
Mind’s Eye
Nightly Reading Homework: Best Practices for Parents
Reciprocal Learning
Rubric Codes
Teaching Text Structures for Non-Fiction Reading
This is an easy way to make seat work more collaborative and get students more active. You can turn any worksheet into a Chat Station in no time, and your students will be grateful for the chance to get out of their seats!
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Concept Attainment
This constructivist technique presents students with “Yes” and “No” examples of a concept, then asks students to list the defining characteristics of the “Yesses,” all before ever telling them what the concept is.
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Crumple & Shoot
This fun, high-engagement game is perfect for an end-of-unit review, and the only materials you need to play are a few sheets of paper and a trash can. After you’ve played it once, your students will beg you to play it again and again.
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The In-Class Flip
Are you nervous about flipping your classroom? Have you tried flipping and come up against some problems? Although the In-Class Flip is not “pure” flipping, it’s a way to apply some of the principles of the flipped classroom while avoiding some aspects that make it too challenging in some districts.
The full article discussing the In-Class Flip was published over at Edutopia. See it here.
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Inductive Learning
Instead of saying, “Here is the knowledge; now go practice it,” inductive learning says, “Here are some objects, some data, some artifacts, some experiences…what knowledge can we gain from them?” It’s a pretty cool strategy.
Read our full article on the Inductive Learning Strategy.
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Jigsaw
Like pieces of a puzzle, Jigsaw has groups of students assume responsibility for different parts of the content, then teach their part to the rest of the class.
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Mind’s Eye
Some texts are just hard for students to get into. The Mind’s Eye strategy grabs their attention before they ever read a single word and creates a mystery that can only be solved by reading the text.
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Nightly Reading Homework: Best Practices for Parents
This video teaches parents how to best approach the nightly read-aloud homework typically assigned to emerging readers.
Read the full article related to this topic: Your Child Has Nightly Reading Homework: What Should YOU Be Doing?
The Reciprocal Learning Strategy
Most of us assign some kind of group work to students, but Reciprocal Learning adds an extra layer of rigor and accountability to the process. Plus, students will love taking turns being the “expert.”
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Faster Grading with Rubric Codes
Do you have a mountain of student writing to grade? A pile of extended responses that have been sitting in your passenger seat for a week? Do you wish you had more time to give students better feedback? This technique will show you how to take a shortcut in grading without losing any of the quality.
Read our full article on how to speed up grading with Rubric Codes.
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Teaching Text Structures for Non-Fiction Reading
Teachers of history, science, and other subjects are now expected to weave literacy instruction into their teaching of content. But how should they do that? What are the most effective ways to help students learn to read challenging content-area texts? Showing students how to identify a text’s overall structure has been found to increase comprehension and retention. Here’s how to do it:
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