Instructional Strategies

Teachers ask a lot of questions. Do your questions encourage student thinking and deepen understanding? Do your students ask questions? Resources and links for questioning strategies to make your questioning more effective and to help your students learn.

Effective homework is meaningful and relevant, considers quality before quantity, is differentiated, is used for practice and to check student progress rather than grade students. Teachers need a homework policy and to communicate the purpose of homework with students and parents. Resources and links

Are you stuck in that routine of providing instruction, giving an assignment, correcting the assignment, and then going to the next lesson? Are you looking for a different way to do homework? Strategies like Zip Around, Wager Game, White Out, Pick Five and many more can be found here. Resources and links

The person doing the most talking is the one doing the most learning. Your goal is to make your students talk as much (or more than) you talk. Several strategies and links are provided to randomly select students to respond as well engage students in thinking about responses

Students need to hear or use a word multiple times before it becomes a part of their vocabulary. Links and resources for personal dictionaries, notebooks, games, activities and much more for students to practice and deepen their understanding of selected vocabulary.