Wondering which chapter books to incorporate into your first grade reading instruction? We’ve got you covered! At this age, students display a wide range of literacy skills, from learning to decode to reading multisyllabic words and longer text. Not every...
1. The teacher dreams have revved back up. Once I dreamed that my appraiser at my first school was my dentist and they pulled out all my teeth with no anesthesia. I’ll let you interpret that one. 2. Your cart...
What are the essential strategies for good, effective math teaching? Everyone wants kids to succeed in math, but how best to do that? In most districts, standardized tests are a high-stakes way to measure students’ understanding, yet few want to...
Every musical instrument is unique, with its own shape, sound, and instrument family. There are four main types of musical instruments broken into families: string, woodwind, brass, and percussion. Take a peek below for more information on each musical instrument...
by TeachThought Staff As learning becomes increasingly digital, access becomes increasingly important. The Flipped Classroom, for example, requires technology that would have been considered dramatic only a few years ago. Broadband access, CPU speed, graphics processing, multi-media production in terms...
by Terrell Heick It isn’t clear what the original goal of social media was. No single person, organization, or platform could have possibly decided this. Once the framework of publishing content–in any constantly changing but not always evolving forms–was established,...
Give students a warm welcome into your room this school year with one of our eight adorable classroom door signs! They’re fully customizable in Google Slides so you can add your name, grade, subject area, or room number. Having signage on...
Dear We Are Teachers, I know we’re in a national teacher shortage, but in my area, it feels close to impossible to get a teaching job. I’ve been rejected for 12 positions now. My supervising teacher, professors, and other references...
Experienced teachers know that true literacy is much more than just being able to sound out the letters on the page. Skilled readers need to be able to master both what the words are and what they mean. To do...
Kids love to tell you all their stories—especially when you’re trying to talk about something else!—but teaching them how to effectively write down their narratives takes work. Mentor texts for narrative writing are a teacher’s best friend when it comes...
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