TRANSFORMING LEARNING FROM THE GROUND UP
We preach lifelong learning to our students, and we unconsciously learn new things every day. Nevertheless, it’s crucial to take intentional steps to boost your skills as an educator.
While NCTM’s Eight Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices can seem overwhelming and like just another thing to add to an already overwhelming list of work to do, slight adjustments to your mathematical tasks, questioning, or dialogue that might bring some or all of these effective mathematics teaching practices to life. Here you will find some ideas to shift secondary mathematics teaching.
Teaching the way I was taught wasn’t inspiring to my students. However, transitioning to a conceptual approach was a critical element in building strong foundational understanding and capacity for all students to succeed in math. Learners need opportunities to DO math, and in DOING, there is LEARNING.
Book talks are a great way to get kids excited about a book. Let’s look at 2 more ways to pique kids’ curiosity!
The amount of educational materials available to purchase is overwhelming. How do you sort through the hype to find what fits your students best?
As part of Women’s History Month, Sharita Ware, the 2022 Indiana Teacher of the Year, shares her journey.
Vaccines have gotten much publicity in the last 2 years. However, there’s more to vaccines than Covid. What do teachers & families need to know?
It’s mid-March which means it’s time to start thinking about next year. Where should teachers & leaders put their purchasing funds & energies?
Funding can be a barricade, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s look at how grants have changed this choir teacher’s classroom.
Student engagement has been a hot-button topic in the world of education for some time. Keep Indiana Learning is here to share a few engagement strategies for teachers.
Media Specialists and classroom teachers can make a powerful duo. The Media Specialists have great expertise that classroom teachers can utilize – building curated resources, fostering a love of reading, integrating technology into instruction, guiding quality research, and collaborating on lessons or units. If you don’t have a certified Media Specialist, find some great advice on how to partner with your local public library!
Take your anchor charts to the next level. Let’s push beyond just posting “I Can” statements to using a “What, Why, and How” approach. When learning is visible for students it can be more easily accessed and replicated by students. Let’s really anchor the learning!
