by Carrie Cole | Nov 16, 2017 | Side-by-Side Blog
In our last post, we discussed learning progressions and their helpfulness in not only understanding children’s development in mathematics, but their usefulness in planning and differentiating instruction. If you didn’t get an opportunity to download the...
by Carrie Cole | Nov 1, 2017 | Side-by-Side Blog
Number sense—or a child’s “fluidity and flexibility with numbers” (Gersten & Chard, 2001)—is a critical early learning skill that should be developed during the early years. Number sense encourages children early on to think flexibly about numbers and promotes...
by Carrie Cole | Oct 1, 2017 | Side-by-Side Blog
“Learning is not a spectator sport.” -Chickering & Ehrmann, 1996 Effective teaching goes beyond student engagement to instead ensure that every student is actively learning, interacting with others, and participating. In this previous blog post, Taking It Beyond...
by Carrie Cole | Sep 25, 2017 | Side-by-Side Blog
In this blog post, I introduced a method for increasing student participation called the 5 Step Questioning Strategy. The fifth step of this strategy involves calling on students for the answer, with no hand raising—instead calling on non-volunteers in a random...
by Carrie Cole | Sep 18, 2017 | Side-by-Side Blog
Walk into a classroom almost anywhere, and you will see this same scenario: Teacher asks question. Students raise hands to answer. Teacher calls on student for answer. It happens every day in classrooms. Truth be told, until I knew better, it happened in my classroom....
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