Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Options for Writing in English 7
Explore how student choices impact learning in a positive way.
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Choices in Reading Tools and Materials in Social Studies
Explore the benefits of allowing students to read a hard text versus a computer reading to them.
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Frayer Model Gallery Walk
Explore how students can use graphic organizers to learn from each other.
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Screen Capture to Support Access to Primary Documents and Db Qs
Use screen captures to improve vocabulary and reach higher level thinking.
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Students Perspectives: Why Choices in Communication Methods?
Students shared with their teacher how they like to show what they know.
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Inspiration, Country Research Project
Explore how a teacher utilizes images, graphic organizers, and varies instruction to meet the academic needs of students.
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Choices in Research and Products in Native American Project
Explroe how to incorporate choices into a research project for students to complete.
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Project Choices in Geometry
Follow along as a teacher demonstrates how to encourage students to be creative when planning and demonstrating a learned skill.
Montgomery CountyPublic Schools
Mcps: Choices in Math Centers
Explore how students succeed when choosing which center they feel helps them learn best.
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University of Texas at Austin
Alien Rescue Classroom Sample Lesson Plans [Pdf]
Try a instructional activity from the Alien Rescue Classroom or modify one of their lessons to meet your unit plan. By implementing the Alien Rescue approach, your students will have the opportunity to enhance their problem solving...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Explicit Comprehension Strategy Instruction
Use explicit strategy instruction to make visible the invisible comprehension strategies that good readers use to understand text. Support students until they can use the strategies independently. Recycle and re-teach strategies...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Tips for Reading Tutors
The U.S. Department of Education developed this brief guide for reading tutors. It lists ways that tutoring helps both the learner and the tutor, and provides practical tips that can help tutors be more effective in their work.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: The Clarifying Routine: Elaborating Vocabulary Instruction
The more a new vocabulary word is associated with ideas from students' own experience, the more likely the word will become well 'networked' and a permanent part of memory. Making these links involves elaborating definitions of new...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Teaching Writing to Diverse Student Populations
Writing is a complex operation requiring knowledge of text structure, syntax, vocabulary, and topic, and sensitivity to audience needs; so it is not surprising that many teens find writing challenging. This article identifies the...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Workshop Constructivism: Paradigm for Teaching: Learning
What is constructivism? Use this informative site to learn more about this theory and how it is incorporated into teaching and learning.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: The Sketch N Write [Pdf]
This is a PDF lesson. After studying vocabulary words or concepts that have similarities and differences, students create a two-sided Sketch-n-Write for two or more words (or concepts). On the right-hand side of the Sketch-n-Write...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Strategies and Research in Instruction
Summarizes what is known about learning from research on the brain and suggests related strategies to use in the classroom. Also discusses the main techniques and strategies that are in wide use today including, for example,...
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Making Meaning With Popular Culture Texts
Research and ideas about using popular culture to engage reluctant learners.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory: Reciprocal Teaching
This site offers a comprehensive description of reciprocal teaching.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Universal Engagement Strategies [Pdf]
Lesson where students are not engaged followed by descriptions of ten engagement strategies including turn and talk, green and red cards, everybody stand up, and more.
Curated OER
Teaching Today: Intervention Strategies for Mathematics Teachers
This site provides intervention strategies for math teachers. The site talks about both identifying students that need intervention and ways to address the issues. The ways to address the issues include small groups, differentiated...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Science Education Center: That's So Meta(cognitive)!
A professional development video to help your students become a more effective science learner. [10:49]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Analyzing a Lesson
Examine how elements of teaching for understanding are incorporated in a lesson. Enter your examples of how the element is used in the lesson, and then compare your answers to other teachers' answers.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Elements of Authentic Instruction
Analyze three classroom segments and identify teaching strategies that illustrate authentic instruction. Give examples to support your answer and compare your answers to those of other teachers.