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Should I grade bell work? [PLUS Bell work shortcuts!] You’ve decided to take the leap in establishing bell work into your class routine. Great! Bell work is one of the most important ways to start your class period off on the right foot. But how will you get your students to take their bellwork seriously? Do you establish it as a graded assignment in your classroom?  We’ll dive into whether or not you should grade

Formative Assessment Strategy: How To Deal With Learning Loss In The Classroom Every teacher has to handle learning loss. If you feel your students have lost skills and knowledge over extended breaks, you’re not alone. This could be after the long summer break or other extended absences from the classroom. This phenomenon is called learning loss, when students seem to backslide in their skills or knowledge after a long time away from the classroom. Learning

Texas STAAR Tutoring For Learning Loss Tutoring for learning loss is something that educators have been doing for decades. When a student falls behind, the obvious key is to help them out with a more focused approach. That’s the state of Texas’s logic behind legislation that targets students who have experienced learning loss as measured by the Texas STAAR assessments.  In this article, we’ll discuss Texas House Bill 4545 and how to implement these policies

How to handle the SPED teacher shortage in your classroom The beginning of the school year is always full of surprises. Your class rosters are often handed to you pretty late in the game, and you never know which students will be in your class with IEPs. Often you have another teacher to collaborate with— your SPED teacher. But with teacher shortages all over the country, more and more teachers are experiencing the effects of

Steps You Can Take To Address Chronic Absenteeism Schools are a place for fostering the minds of students to prepare for their futures. But nowadays, educators notice that classroom seats are being left empty for days on end, in more significant amounts than before.  Chronic absenteeism is a nationwide crisis taking away your students’ potential. To help combat this, it is up to educators to keep students physically and mentally present in their classrooms. Try

Foreign Language Bellwork: How A Question Of The Day Can Transform Learning Are you struggling with bellwork in your foreign language classroom? It might be planning bellwork, managing students during bellwork, or invigorating your stale bell work ideas. We have you covered. On top of giving you fresh ideas, we’ll also explain some ways you can use online bell work to set up listening and speaking activities for your world language students. You can create

How To Deal With Teacher Shortages At Your School It never fails – you’re preparing for a hectic school day, and your administrator taps on your door and asks you to cover a class. You say yes because you have to: pressure from your boss, doing the right thing, worry you might be in the same boat in the future. But you know the time crunch that you’re under. You’re going to lose your precious

I Do, We Do, You Do: How To Give Your Students Gradual Responsibility With Your Teaching Have you ever had one of those days in your classroom when the questions just don’t stop coming, when no matter how many times you explain a topic, it seems that there’s still a lot that the students didn’t catch? Yep, we’ve all had those days! One way to combat that barrage of never-ending questions is to shift some

Self-Paced Learning: Practical Tools And Advice From Everyday Teachers Anyone who has been around a child of any age knows that they all progress and learn differently. That’s what pro educators already understand and the core of what makes outside bystanders so confused about today’s classroom. You can’t just stand in front of the classroom and teach and get high levels of mastery. You’re either going too fast or too slow. You’re only helping the