All Teaching Ideas & Strategies

96 articles

• Differentiating Assessment Methods Without Lowering Expectations

  Differentiating Assessment Methods Without Lowering Expectations

  How to offer varied ways for students to show what they know while keeping the standard the same, and how assessment accommodations fit in.

  Assessment & Feedback Read More →
• Using Student Portfolios to Document Growth Over Time

  Using Student Portfolios to Document Growth Over Time

  How to set up student portfolios that show growth over time, with selection routines, reflection prompts and student-led conferences for every grade.

  Assessment & Feedback Read More →
• Developing Effective Progress-Monitoring Systems for Intervention

  Developing Effective Progress-Monitoring Systems for Intervention

  How to choose measures, set goals, graph data and use decision rules so progress monitoring shows whether an intervention is actually working.

  Assessment & Feedback Read More →
• Teaching Students to Self-Assess Their Learning

  Teaching Students to Self-Assess Their Learning

  How to teach students to judge their own work against clear criteria, set goals and track their progress, with routines for every grade level.

  Assessment & Feedback Read More →
• Using Assessment Data to Guide Instruction: A Practical Classroom Protocol

  Using Assessment Data to Guide Instruction: A Practical Classroom Protocol

  A simple protocol for turning quizzes, unit tests and benchmark results into clear next steps for whole-class, small-group and individual teaching.

  Assessment & Feedback Read More →
• Giving Meaningful Feedback Students Can Use to Improve

  Giving Meaningful Feedback Students Can Use to Improve

  Practical ways to give feedback students actually use, built on the feed up, feed back and feed forward model, with sentence stems and routines.

  Assessment & Feedback Read More →
• Designing Effective Rubrics That Clarify Quality and Support Learning

  Designing Effective Rubrics That Clarify Quality and Support Learning

  How to build analytic, holistic and single-point rubrics with clear criteria, student-friendly language and a sample rubric you can adapt.

  Assessment & Feedback Read More →
• Using Small-Group Literacy Instruction to Target What Students Need

  Using Small-Group Literacy Instruction to Target What Students Need

  How to form flexible groups from assessment data, plan short, focused lessons and keep the rest of the class productively engaged.

  Literacy Strategies Read More →
• Teaching Effective Writing Strategies: From Strong Sentences to Whole Pieces

  Teaching Effective Writing Strategies: From Strong Sentences to Whole Pieces

  Teach writing with modeled strategies, sentence-level practice, the writing process and daily writing time, with a planning routine for any grade.

  Literacy Strategies Read More →
• Developing Vocabulary and Language Comprehension Across the Grades

  Developing Vocabulary and Language Comprehension Across the Grades

  Strategies for oral language, robust word teaching, morphology and syntax that strengthen the language side of reading, from kindergarten to high school.

  Literacy Strategies Read More →
• Improving Reading Fluency: Accuracy, Automaticity and Expression

  Improving Reading Fluency: Accuracy, Automaticity and Expression

  Build accurate, automatic and expressive reading with modeled, repeated and partner reading routines, plus simple ways to check fluency progress.

  Literacy Strategies Read More →
• Teaching Systematic Phonics and Decoding: A Practical Classroom Guide

  Teaching Systematic Phonics and Decoding: A Practical Classroom Guide

  How to plan an explicit phonics scope and sequence, teach blending, use decodable text and replace guessing with sounding out, with a lesson routine.

  Literacy Strategies Read More →