This resource from Disruptive Classroom Technologies will guide you to set goals for the use and integration of digital tools in your classroom at three levels of mastery: beginning, developing, and mastering.
In this chapter from The Blended Learning Blueprint for Elementary Teachers, consider how you can move from differentiation to personalized learning, design personalized pathways, and make those pathways work.
Discover in this resource from Concept-Based Inquiry in Action by Carla Marschall and Rachel French the phases of concept-based inquiry and how they are interconnected to support learning transfer.
In this excerpt from Word Study That Sticks by Pamela Koutrakos, get a tour of word study in action and listen in and hear how real word exploring might go.
This excerpt from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary, makes the case for conceptual learning and debunks the myth that simply covering the material will cause students to retain it.
Use the strategy of concept attainment, from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, with your students, which mimics the brain’s natural concept-formation process by drawing out patterns from examples and nonexamples.
Use the guidance in this section from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary, to begin a conversation with your students about how this type of learning might be different from what they are accustomed to doing.
Use this lesson framework from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, to guide your students through the process of generating and testing hypotheses to discover connections between concepts.
Use these self-assessment rubrics from Teaching Strategies That Create Assessment-Literate Learners to help you reflect on your assessment for learning practices.
Use these quick tips from A Local Assessment Toolkit to Promote Deeper Learning for three ways to approach differentiating curriculum without creating completely different lessons.
In this excerpt from What Are You Grouping For? Grades 3-8, discover the differences between guided reading and small group instruction.
This lesson from Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class, Middle School, helps students learn to analyze mathematic scenarios based upon their environment. Students will learn to apply mathematics concepts to real world situations that lead to solutions and reasoning.