All Posts Alphabatized by Category
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Creative Thinking & Motivation
5 Ways to Cultivate Creative Thinking
Inspiring Creativity: Think Outside the Bowl
Classroom Strategies that Motivate the Reluctant Learner
How to Motivate Your Child to Learn
Curriculum Writing: Questioning Techniques & Rubrics
Questioning Techniques:
Essential and Guiding Questions
Thematic Guiding Questions Pertinent to Adolescents
Reality-Based Integrated Instruction
Rubrics:
The Art of Negotiable Contracting
Creating Rubrics Through Negotiable Contracting and Assessment
Students and Teachers Alike Can Benefit from Rubrics
Portfolios
Bridging the Standards Across the Curriculum with Portfolios
Discussion and Debate Strategies
Classroom Strategies that Motivate the Reluctant Learner
Lobbyist Hearing: Viewing Events from Multiple Perspectives
Gifted & Talented Education
Can Our Gifted Children Remain Gifted?
House of Representatives Water Down Senate Bill for Gifted Youth
How to Recognize When a Child is Gifted
Measures of Success: A Debate of Social Intelligence vs Cognitive Skills
Instructional, Coaching, and Listening Skills in the Classroom
Classroom Coaching
5 Tips to Enhance Your Communication
COACHing Questions for Cooperative Group Work
The Different Hats We Wear: Coaching, Consulting, and Evaluating
The GOPER Model of Problem Solving in the Coaching Classroom or School
Heaping Pennies to Teach Group Cohesion
How Coaching Techniques Motivate and Engage Students to Talk Content
Professional Development for Teachers
The A-ha Moment: Principals Using Coaching Techniques for Teacher Evaluation
Certified Coaches Can Help At-Risk or New Teachers
Language Arts & Social Studies Integration
Enlivening Social Studies to Meet the Test
Helping Students Define Primary Source Documents
How to Address a Political Cartoon for Clearer Interpretation
Reality-Based Integrated Instruction
Young Adult Literature:
Using Multi-Level, Young Adult Literature in the Middle School American Studies
Mathematics
Journal Writing
The Link Between Art and Mathematics
Pic-Jour Math: Pictorial Journal Writing in Mathematics to Understand Pi
Manipulatives
Fraction Rings: Teaching Time, Decimals, and Degrees
Fun with Picture Grids: Teaching the Addition of Fractions
Fun with Picture Grids: Teaching the Subtraction of Fractions
Fun with Picture Grids: Teaching Multiplication of Fractions & Decimals
Fun with Picture Grids: Teaching the Division of Fractions
Fun with Picture Grids: Teaching Square Root
Reinforcement Games
Flashcard Games to Make Memorization Fun: Part II: Identity Crisis, Mad Libs, and Verbal Fluency
Social Media
Helping Students Define Primary Source Documents Online
Be a Teacher, Not a Friend: Top Ten Recommendations for Social Media Practices
Role-Play in the Classroom with Delicious
School Beware: Facebook Owns Your Words
The Top 6 Reasons for Schools to Teach Safe Practices in Social Media
