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5 Counting Principles Every Preschooler Needs to Know
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 progression...
Learning Progression for Counting and Beginning Number Sense
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...
20 Active Participation Techniques to Supercharge Your Lessons!
“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...
Popsicles Sticks and More: Seven Fun Alternatives to Raised Hands
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...
No Raised Hands: The 5 Step Questioning Method
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....
Taking Engagement to the Next Level: Action Participation
-“Engaged students are motivated to learn.” --Wilkinson & Silliman, 2014 “High levels of [active] engagement during lessons are associated with higher levels of achievement and student motivation.” -Ryan and Deci, 2000 -"Students are not attentive to what is...
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