by mlicausi | Feb 4, 2018 | Common Core, Differentiation, ELA (English Language Arts), Gifted and Talented Resources, goal setting, Learning Goals and Scales, Marzano Scales, Math, Most Successful Teaching Strategies
Have you ever struggled to engage your students attention in a lesson? Most kids decide on their interest or engagement level in the first minute. If they feel unfamiliar, overwhelmed, or don’t see the relevance of content they can immediately turn off. You find...
by mlicausi | Mar 3, 2017 | Common Core Math, Free Resources, Gifted and Talented Resources, Math
Are you struggling to find engaging review activities for standardized math testing? As a visual-spatial thinker, I always found geometry really fun and easy to teach because I could SEE what was being described. The biggest challenge for my to my 4th and 5th grade...
by mlicausi | Feb 12, 2016 | Australian Standards ACARA, Classroom Management, Common Core, Cooperation, Free Resources, Gifted and Talented Resources, goal setting, Learning Goals and Scales, Marzano Scales, Most Successful Teaching Strategies, Motivation
Everyday heroes are the people who do amazing things, generous things, inspiring things, in everyday situations that aren’t usually mentioned in the newspapers or history books. To motivate students with everyday heroes means to expose them to examples of people...
by mlicausi | Aug 11, 2015 | Behavior, Classroom Management, Common Core, Common Core Math, Gifted and Talented Resources, Math, Motivation
The first weeks of the school year always got me wondering how much my students learned from last year. I certainly didn’t have time to review all of their standardized test scores, and it’s hard to give a pretest in every subject that touches on skills...
by mlicausi | Oct 7, 2014 | Common Core, Common Core Math, Differentiation, Gifted and Talented Resources, Grading, Learning Goals and Scales, Marzano Scales, Math, Most Successful Teaching Strategies
Linking up with Middle School Math Moments for Working on It Wednesday! Is it just me, or is it a little bit time-consuming to create unique scales? The following article gives a 5-step process to create your own scales for any learning goal you choose. This might be...
