Several years ago, I would have considered myself to be an anti-centers teacher. I liked the idea of them, but I could not make them work in my classroom. I tried really hard my first couple of years teaching, but they added so much work for me, and I wasn’t confident that my students were […]
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In my school, classroom teachers are responsible for RTI interventions and progress monitoring for their Tier 2 students, and we have a couple different programs that we use for reading. However, for math we pretty much have to come up with our own resources. I’ve found resources that had pieces of what I was looking
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By the time we finish testing, I’ve taught all, or most, of the standards, so I have a little more flexibility than normal. I certainly don’t want student learning to stop, but it keeping our momentum can be a challenge. As the school year winds down, it’s beneficial to both reteach and enrich. Student work
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In this post I’ve shared how to organize math centers to help you save time and keep organized. Centers can be a great addition to the classroom, but it’s not always easy to organize your center activities. And then once they’re organized, it can be a challenge to KEEP them that way Fortunately, there are
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Classroom management strategies has to be one of the most important, and often challenging, parts of teaching. I substituted while I was in college, so I quickly learned that if I wanted to survive as a teacher, I needed to learn how to manage a classroom. My first group was by far the most challenging
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