I remember when I was a little girl in school, I loved to play bingo in the classroom. I can’t remember how we played…
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Teaching During a Pandemic
As a math teacher, I am stickler for rules. There are no shades of gray, just black and white. I function well when I know…
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Teaching Students to Self-Evaluate
I am always thinking of ways to improve my craft as a teacher. At the end of each two-week unit, I reflect on my teaching.…
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Targeting High Achievers in Middle School Math
In every classroom, there are students with varying levels of understanding regardless of the content. Teachers have a enormous task of reaching all those levels…
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Five Ways to Increase Students’ NWEA Math Scores
I believe every teacher wants to see their students grow. Students’ growth makes us feel like our work is not in vain. Their growth validates…
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Don’t Start Your School Year Without …
Bloom’s Taxonomy Math Prompts Many authors write materials for teachers to use Bloom’s Taxonomy during Reading. From this, teachers create activities for students to complete…
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Although I provide quality instruction (tooting my own horn … lol), I like to provide my students with multiple resources to prepare them for the…
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I have a confession … my students haven’t been performing well on tests. It’s the beginning of the school year and the coursework will not…
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Today, I decided to introduce the practice of talking about Math in my class. This is called a Math Talk. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) really…
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