Math Ideas

Teachers Love Ikea { Part 2 }

One of my students today reminded me just why I had developed this Effort Meter a few years ago. :-) This became a tool that was used throughout most of my middle school building a few years back. Some of the teachers even brought it home to use with their children and yes.....you guessed it...their spouses! I, of course, found that to be hilarious! This can be used with all students. Sometimes it is an even more effective tool to use with those students who are classified as "gifted" to try...

This graphic illustrates the three tenets of UDL with practical examples of how to implement them in the classroom. It will be useful to consider how different forms of representation, expression, and engagement should vary across learners.

Multiplication Strategies

I haven’t been able to verify that this is actually ‘Japanese‘, but regardless this is the easiest way to learn/do multiplication. If you can count, you can

Create fake text to display your morning message to your class each day

to gauge student understanding.

Fieldcrest - Grade Eight: Own Your Learning Student check-in before saying "I'm done"