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Teaching Strategy: Processing Assignments

One of the greatest resources I’ve ever used in the classroom is the Processing Assignment (or PA). Created by the Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI), the PA is really whatever you or the students want it to be. Let’s examine more on the incredible teaching tool. What is a Processing Assignment (PA)? Simply put, it’s hitting the “pause […]

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Teaching Strategy: Collision!

I know what you’re thinking – “this author wants to teach us about a game called ‘Collision’? Oh, this can’t be good.” Relax, take a sip of your coffee, and stop to learn this interactive teaching strategy. Ingredients: A class of students An open area to move around A list thought-provoking questions that can have multiple […]