Posted inElementary School, Instructional Strategies, Special Education

How to Differentiate Instruction

In my last post, I talked about the difference between an accommodation and a modification, two things that many educators have a difficult time differentiating between. Accommodations and modifications generally get utilized by students with 504 plans and Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Differentiation becomes a sticky topic these days, though, as we educators feel the […]

Posted inCurrent Events in Education, High School, Instruction & Curriculum, Instructional Strategies, Literacy, Uncategorized

Teachers Observing Teachers – A Closer Look

“How can we ask ourselves to go observe other teachers in other buildings, when we don’t even observe the teachers in our own building?”  This question was recently thrown out by me at a PLC meeting where we were discussing teacher actions that we can take as part of our goal for our Professional Learning Community. When the […]

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Teaching Writing to Struggling Students

The first year that I was in the classroom I was surprised when I assigned a writing task on the play, “The Crucible” that many of the kids were excited to express their feelings about the antagonist, Abigail and protagonist, John.  For an entire class period we walked through the writing assignment and discussed possible ways […]