Effective Teaching Strategies Archives

Improve Your Classroom Discussions with Questioning Strategies

March 9, 2020 // by Lindsay Ann

Using Questioning Strategies to Engage All Learners If you’ve ever sat in a room full of crickets, errrr students, …

February 24, 2020 // by Lindsay Ann

It took a while for me to really understand how to leverage teacher student relationships for learning in my classroom. …

February 17, 2020 // by Lindsay Ann

Are you looking for games to play with a classroom community? Games in the classroom are a piece of a giant teaching …

February 10, 2020 // by Lindsay Ann

If you teach in a PLC (professional learning community) school, you know that your administration values teacher …

December 28, 2019 // by Lindsay Ann

If you haven't heard of hexagonal thinking, it's a retrieval and connection strategy that is student-led and hands-on. …

December 16, 2019 // by Lindsay Ann

I want you to close your eyes a minute and remember your days in middle school or high school. What do you remember …

October 13, 2019 // by Lindsay Ann

Have you tried teaching podcasting in your classroom as a means of authentic assessment? Or maybe you've wanted to try …

March 19, 2019 // by Lindsay Ann

Recently, one of my colleagues interrupted a Principal evaluation survey I was taking to talk about language for student …

March 3, 2019 // by Lindsay Ann

I've tried a lot of different discussion strategies, some of them more effective than others. This year, Socratic …

February 25, 2019 // by Lindsay Ann

I’m always looking for reading activities to help my students engage with middle school reading strategies in unexpected …

February 12, 2019 // by Lindsay Ann

Building a classroom community was the last idea on my mind last Friday. I taught all day through with zero plan …

January 4, 2019 // by Lindsay Ann

Do you have an imaginary teacher persona, an avatar of sorts programmed into your brain? I do. I like to think that I'm …