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Simplify Your Lesson Planning: Top Tips for Busy Teachers
How I Reduced My Sunday Night Stress as a Maths Teacher If you're anything like I was, Sunday nights used to feel heavy.Even after hours of...
Why Teaching Entrepreneurship in High School Matters
Why Teaching Entrepreneurship in High School Matters (And How to Make It Actually Engaging) “I wish someone had taught me this in school.” That’s...
Making Numeracy Lessons Count: Using Data to Improve Student Learning
Making Data Work for You: A Simple Way to Teach What Kids Actually Need Let’s talk about data. We hear this word and instantly think of paperwork,...
How to Effectively Partner with Teacher Aides for Classroom Success
Okay, let’s talk about something that can sometimes get overlooked in the hustle and bustle of the classroom—our amazing Teacher Aides (TAs)!...
Improve Student Behaviour and Engagement by Identifying Learning Gaps!
I remember standing in front of my class, trying to teach decimals to a group of disengaged students. It felt like no matter how many examples I...
Why Explicit Teaching is Your Secret Weapon for Teaching Students the Base Skills
I’ll never forget my first year of teaching when I was determined to tackle everything at once—behaviour management, curriculum planning, and making...
Why Mastering Simplifying Fractions is Essential for Future Math Success
When it comes to teaching mathematics, some concepts have a profound impact on students’ future learning. Simplifying fractions is one of those...
Lessons Best Suited for Explicit Teaching: A Guide to Effective Use
As teachers, we’re always trying out different pedagogies, each one promising to help our students reach their full potential. When I first...
“The Power of Explicit Teaching: Why It Works (Even When You Think It Doesn’t)”
Explicit teaching has been the craze for at least the last 10 years, and I jumped into the classroom right in the middle of it. I have a bit of a...
A guide to teaching 7th Graders how to Multiply Decimals
Multiplying decimals can be straightforward if students grasp a simple trick: remove the decimal place and multiply the whole numbers. But is it...
3- Step Plan to implementing a New Routine in your junior secondary classroom
As teachers, we continually refine our skills to become the best educators possible. Through years of practice and experimentation with various...
Explicit Lesson for Simplifying Fractions
Are you looking for a ready-to-go lesson that will help your students master simplifying fractions? I know how challenging it can be to find...
Creating Effective Classroom Routines: A Teachers Guide to Smooth Sailing
What are routines and why are they so effective in classrooms? Every Principal, administrator, teacher expert, or colleague has probably told...
The MUST HAVE resource to teach students how to multiply, divide, add and subtract fractions!
Are you wondering how to teach multiplication, division, addition or subtraction of fractions?Or perhaps you’re spending A LOT of time googling,...
The 5 Steps you MUST follow to build rapport with Students with Autism
Building Rapport with Students with Autism We have all read or wrote many support plans that list one of the most important aspects of teaching and...
5 Brain aligned strategies that you need to implement NOW!
Are you teaching Grade 7’s and finding yourself constantly telling them to stop talking, sit down or something similar?I’m here to help! A long time...
Need help teaching Sqaure Numbers and their Roots?
This is a question that I get ALL the time from my students! So firstly, let’s clarify this: No, they are not the same in fact they are the...
The must have guide for teaching the 3 Number Laws – Commutative, Associative, and Distributive
Ever found yourself staring at the curriculum, wondering if the commutative, associative, and distributive laws are some kind of mysterious...
3 Questions that will Transform Student Behaviour Today!
Are you familiar with the powerful tool known as Functional Behaviour Assessment, or FBA? This technique is like a detective's investigation, but...
Work Life Balance, for a teacher, is a MYTH!
Teaching is a job that never ends! We can always find more to do... And it's in our nature to want to do EVERYTHING possible to help our students....