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Category Archives: Classroom Management
Structuring for Choice—The Teacher’s Role
In the last post, I wrote about the steps I took as I gradually gave students a greater stake in their learning. In my experience, giving students more choice requires a great deal of structure. Today I want to talk … Continue reading
Including All Students in General Education Classrooms
Inclusion of special needs children into classrooms of general education students seems to be a difficult area for many teachers. Throughout my career, I was involved in many conversations about how to accomplish this very worthwhile task while meeting everyone’s … Continue reading
Inclusion: Try a Workshop Style Approach
Workshop style teaching involves presenting a lesson to the whole group, releasing students to practice the lesson skills presented, working individually with students and small groups during the work period in order to learn more about what the students can … Continue reading
An Ideal Learner’s Workshop
I love workshop style teaching, probably because it empowers children, and teachers, to learn in ways that best suit them. It is student-centered, can be self-directed, and is easy, easy, easy, to differentiate to meet the needs of everyone. A … Continue reading
Inclusion–Integrate your Instruction!
Integrating instruction across all subject areas provides a lot of structure and support for students who find school-learning difficult. The day is focused on one particular subject which the children are exploring and evaluating through reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking, … Continue reading
Something is wrong when…
I was talking with a colleague the other day and she said, “When I’m working harder than my kids are, something is wrong!” Wow! A simple, but profound statement, seems to me. I wish she’d said this to me 19 … Continue reading
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Build on What You Have–Literature Book Boxes
A colleague, Marilyn H., provided me with one of the most useful items for integrating instruction through thematic teaching that I ever used. She brought literature book boxes to our school. Here’s what she did and how they work: Marilyn … Continue reading
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