Whether you will be building your STEAM physical space in your regular classroom setting, have an already-defined STEAM lab in your school, or are conceptualizing other ideas for STEAM physical spaces, consider the following excerpt from Step Into STEAM, Grades K-5, to understand what a STEAM classroom atmosphere looks like—and doesn’t look like.
The following checklist from Step into STEAM, Grades K-5, includes the crucial elements to incorporate into your STEAM PBL as you embark on a STEAM inquiry using a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) framework.
This chapter from We Reason & We Prove for ALL Mathematics, "Setting the Stage," will help students engage in mathematical activities that emphasize reasoning, justifying, and proving.
Included in this excerpt from Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, High School, is a Peer Assisted Review (PAR) activity on on understanding volume formulas. PARs are a great resource to help students reflect on their own thinking and solve meaningful problems.
This Peer-Assisted Reflection (PAR) activity from Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 3-5, helps you develop strategies for process feedback, which is critical as learners explore the why and the how of specific mathematics content.
This checklist from Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades K-2, provides instruction on how to compose mathematics tests that truly assess mastery.
In this webinar, Catlin Tucker, author of Power Up Blended Learning, provides an overview of a blended learning coaching cycle designed to support teachers from goal setting to implementation to reflection.
Summarizing is a great way to know if a student is understandning the main point of the reading. In this activity from The Big Book of Literacy Tasks, Grades K-8, the student will write a news story to another student explaining the most important points to know from the text read the day before.
This lesson from No More Fake Reading provides teachers tips on how to manage your students during independent reading time.
In this webinar, Ricky Robertson, author of Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences, focuses on a whole-staff approach to foster resilience in both students living with ACEs and the professionals who work with them in America's rural, suburban, and urban schools.
Read this blog post from Pamela Koutrakos, author of Word Study that Sticks, to learn three ready-to-go ways to infuse word study into the content areas.
These three lessons from The Ramped-Up Read Aloud will teach students to: notice how characters change from the beginning to the end of a story; think about the differences in the way they think and act; and talk, write, or draw about how they change.