5 Recommendations to Help Teachers Craft Effective Questions
When I spend time in English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms, I pay careful attention to the questions teachers ask students as well as the students’ responses.
When I spend time in English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms, I pay careful attention to the questions teachers ask students as well as the students’ responses.
In this episode, UnboundEd sits down with Judson Odell, CEO of Odell Education, and Diana Leddy, co-founder of the Vermont Writing Collaborative. They discuss how can we teach research differently and shift to deepening our students’ understanding through inquiry. Specifically, the group examines the impact of writing, research, and argumentation on students’ development as critical thinkers. Diana Leddy has more …
For the past month and a half, I’ve received a plethora of emails and social media posts reminding me of the work and life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and of February’s designation as Black History Month. Both events are meant to address important historical exclusions in curriculum — African American history.
Here are a few recommended texts as well as a quick look at the quantitative and qualitative features that make the text complex.
I love seeing the books students are reading because the texts teachers choose are central to preparing students to meet the standards.
Preschool teacher Julie Litwin uses props and engaging questions to make complex science comprehensible to preschool students. In this video, Litwin, an experienced preschool teacher and the assistant director of Noah’s Ark Preschool in Albany, New York, demonstrates an introduction to polar bears. Her multi-prop lesson includes using straws and black paper to explain how a polar bear absorbs heat …
I’m on a journey to spend the next six months talking to educators across the country in order to hear their perspectives on teaching and learning.
Susan Bahlatzi, director of Noah’s Ark Preschool, and Julie Litwin, assistant director of Noah’s Ark Preschool, explain elements of their topic-based learning unit on birds. Their activities address multiple standards while engaging students in their classwork and the world around them. I
By Jose Guadarrama, Content Leader, FirstLine Schools As students return to classrooms this fall, no doubt, they will be in different places in terms of reading. While some can be enthusiastic, others will easily be distressed after the lack of engaged learning over the summer. Working as a K-4 teacher for 12 years, I know how summer enrichment programs are …
Teaching an English Language Learner can be a challenge, especially if you don’t have experience with your students’ native language.