Proven classroom management tips & strategies

This video will help teachers with management of their classrooms to provide an effective learning environment for their students. This video emphasizes organization, routines, and procedures. Learning cannot happen without a safe, secure, and comfortable learning environment for students. Test scores and learning in general will improve with effective classroom management. Procedures and structure with positive communication is the key to reaching students to teach them effectively.

Tips & Strategies for Effective Differentiation & Instruction

This video will help teachers with differentiation of instruction to provide an effective, engaging, learning environment by creating a culture of student success and meeting the needs of all students. Every student is unique and deserves instruction beyond "one size fits all". This video emphasizes the "how to", "nuts and bolts" of preparing and managing differentiated instructional models. Differentiation will help to meet the needs of all students. Differentiated instruction will help to close the achievement gap in testing. Building differentiation, communicating expectations, and accountability will provide the keys to reaching students to teach them effectively meeting the needs of varied ability levels and multiple learning styles.

Student Engagement & Motivation Strategies & Tips

This video will help teachers with classroom management to provide an effective learning environment by creating a culture of engagement and motivation for their students. This video emphasizes engagement, motivation, building relationships, and Checking for Understanding (CFU). This is part two which is more about engagement and motivation to provide opportunity for student and teacher success.

Checking for Understanding (CFU)

This video will help teachers understand a teaching strategy called "Checking for Understanding" it is a powerful strategy that will guide instruction and increase student engagement. CFU will improve instruction in turn improving student achievement CFU is the teacher continually verifying that students are learning what is being taught while it is being taught. CFU allows you to make instructional decisions during the lesson, monitor student progress in real time so as not to wait until formal assessments in order to revise lessons. To ensure that students are not practicing and reinforcing mistakes. Practice makes permanent, not perfect. CFU ensures student engagement by continuous checking if the student understands and is on task. This video will help teachers learn how to implement this powerful teaching strategy that will provide ongoing informal assessment in real time.