Discover how providing choice in the classroom can create a more inclusive and engaging learning environment for all students. Learn about the benefits of choice and practical tips for implementing it effectively.
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Building Confident Writers: Strategies and Resources for Engaged Learning
In this post, you will find: ideas, tools and strategies that you could use to support all learners in writing a visual of the ideas, tools and strategies that you can download Writing is a complex skill that many people find challenging to master, especially when faced with barriers that hinder learning the foundational skills … Continue reading Building Confident Writers: Strategies and Resources for Engaged Learning
8 No Prep Ways to Provide Choice in Any Lesson
Why not start small? Providing choices for learners does not have to be extravagant projects or tasks such as choice boards. It can also be the small, simple options we give our learners between projects and tasks. They can be as simple as allowing learners to make a choice about where they sit in the lesson or how they interact when answering a question. These simple choices provide snippets of autonomy for learners and are designed in a way that allows learners to see that they will be successful in at least one of the options.
+ 1 Series: Small Routines with Big Impact: Tell Your Neighbour
This routine allows learners to verbalise their thinking and learning to a peer as well as allowing them to hear the learning of others. In telling your neighbour learners are first given a problem to solve. They have a set amount of time to solve the problem. This depends on the problem or task of course. Then learners are given time to think about how they solved the problem. They can do this by drawing/diagram, writing or thinking in their heads. This is silent time. Then learners turn to their neighbour and tell them their answer and how they solved the problem.
Transform Your Teaching with Visual Lesson Reflections!
Reflection is a learning experience for the educator and it doesn't matter how long you have been in this game, it is still important to reflect on a lesson or two. In this post I am going to share how I reflect on my learning experiences using visuals.
+1 Series: Small Routines with Big Impact: Learning Goal
A clear goal is the very foundation of effective curriculum (Meyer, Rose, & Gordon, 2014). Why not represent the learning goal in multiple ways for learners? This routine supports learners to know and have a clear example of what they will be able to do by the end of the lesson as well as representing the learning goal in many ways.
Practical Strategies to Identify and Leverage Learner Strengths
Traditional education supports our learners who have strengths in language, self-regulation and executive functions but what happens when the learners in front of us don't have those strengths?
+1 Series: Small Routines with Big Impact: Independent Practice
This routine is very simple yet so effective! We all know those learners who need a bit more support or a confidence boost to get them on their way for independent practice of a skill or concept taught. This routine gives learners the autonomy to decide if they are ready for independent practice or not.
+1 Series: Small Routines with Big Impact: Vocabulary Choice Board
We all know how important vocabulary is to reading comprehension and the importance of teaching vocabulary explicitly (Fisher et al., 2016). This routine is used after the explicit teaching of vocabulary. This routine allows learners to review and apply their understanding of the focus word in different ways.
Eliminating Barriers For Threats and Distractions in Your Classroom: Ideas to Use Tomorrow
It's the beginning of the school year here in Australia and there are lots of anxious students and teachers alike apprehensive of what the new school year will bring. Obviously it is normal to have these feelings at the beginning of the new year when we are not sure what is coming. What about when you are anxious and apprehensive every day and sometimes, every minute of the day? For some of our learners this is their reality. That is why it is important to consider how we, as educators, are eliminating barriers for threats and distractions in our learning spaces to ensure that all learners are ready for learning.
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