Ignite Your Teaching

If you have a classroom with many needs and learning styles then you will need to differentiate assessment. This assessment can be based on if and when student achieve small and large learning goals.

In this episode, we will look at how to integrate assessment with goal setting.

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So, you want your students to be more active goal setters.
But how do you do this in your classroom?

In this episode, we will look at three different ways you can make goal setting more visual in your classroom.

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What if we use failure to help our students develop more of a growth mindset and teach them how to take risks?

Join me in this episode, and we look at strategies that you can use in your classroom to help your students to fail more often and be comfortable with failing, so that they can develop grit, perseverance, and handwork.  

Goal setting is embedded in a student centered inquiry classroom as an integral part of learning.

In this Episode, we explore a goal setting framework that will allow us to help students get from point A to Point B (The Learning Goal) but by focusing on individual goals and pathways. Building goal oriented students helps them to be active problem solvers who co-construct their own learning.

Join me as we dive into the steps we need to coach our goal setting students from Struggle to Success in your inquiry classroom.

Universal Design is the word that has been around for awhile but it is gaining in popularity and more people are using it to talk about what good teaching and learning looks like.

And it is no wonder...

It incorporates differentiation, inquiry and accommodations and modifications.

Let me share with you some of the things that I do in my classroom that are examples of Universal Design and how you can reframe and reflect on your own teaching practices to approach teaching and learning from a Universal Design perspective.

Do you have a split grade class and dread teaching science and social studies? Do you wonder how you will teach two grades different content at the same time?

In this Episode, I share with you my 3 highly effective strategies to teach science and social studies that will help you manage teaching two grades at once. (I've also thrown in three strategies you should avoid and why)

Get practical tips and tricks on how to use these strategies in your classroom, so you can do it all at the same time.

Writing comes with it's own unique challenges when it comes to assessment and evaluation. In this episode, we will chat about what writing looks like in the classroom and how I work with students throughout the learning process to assess their writing both through formative and summative assessment tasks all while utilizing the triangulation of data.

In this Episode,  we explore ways to mark math in your classroom. Looking at ways that go beyond the check mark for a correct answers.