Teaching Resources For Sustainable, Innovative Teaching

How Student Work Models Make Rubrics More Effective

Without models of student work to validate and ground them, rubrics are often too vague for students to be useful.

One message every student should hear from you: “The word ‘smart’ doesn’t mean anything so you and I aren’t going to use it anymore.”

From how digital assignments are turned in to what students should do if they’re confused, here are 50 common classroom procedures.

Build relationships with parents at the beginning of the school year. This helps develop trust and opens the lines of communication.

Is My School Ready? Strategies For Principals That Lead contributed by Jen Schwanke, Principal for Dublin City Schools For a

One idea is each academic group comes to the teacher in groups of four to six students for direct instruction.

The better we know our students, and the more they know and trust that we know them, the more invested they become in their learning.

Students would show up saying they heard “the test was brutal” or didn’t do the homework because they ‘heard’ I didn’t collect it.