Behavior: don’t over-reward
Date: April 30th, 2015
By: Polly Bath
Reward systems are common, but we don’t want to OVER reward. Watch this video for more.
Behavior management: BUILD a child’s confidence
Date: April 21st, 2015
By: Polly Bath
It’s very difficult when a child has a lack of confidence, both for you and the child! Watch this video for my tip on how to BUILD a child’s confidence.
#3 Adding 2-digit numbers in your head faster than on a calculator
Date: April 20th, 2015
By: Tom Schersten
Tom Schersten: Have you ever been told that when you add, you have to start on the right side? Well, it’s not true. The commutative property of addition says very clearly we can add in any order we want to. This video is going to show you how, when you understand place value, you can […]
Help kids with short-term memory issues not to fall behind
Date: April 14th, 2015
By: Polly Bath
Have you ever had a kid that has problems with their short-term memory? It makes it difficult for them to keep up in class. Watch this video for my tip on how to help these kids.
What should we do when there is a physical altercation between students?
Date: April 9th, 2015
By: Polly Bath
Sometimes we have to deal with physical altercations between students. Watch this video for five techniques I use.
#2 Getting kids from manipulatives to written math
Date: April 8th, 2015
By: Tom Schersten
Tom Schersten: Happily, most classrooms in the United States are now using base 10 blocks for modeling place value in the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Unfortunately, teachers are complaining that kids are not making the connection between the concrete operations and the abstract representations with the usual math written symbols. These connections […]
Classroom behavior: our biggest ADHD mistake
Date: April 2nd, 2015
By: Polly Bath
Using unconditional attention to teach social/emotional skills
Date: March 26th, 2015
By: Polly Bath
Watch this video for my tip on how we can use unconditional attention or interventions to teach skills to a child who doesn’t have them.
#1 Using ‘Muscle Numbers’ to teach place value
Date: March 25th, 2015
By: Tom Schersten
Tom Schersten: One of the big ideas of elementary math education, perhaps the biggest idea, is that of place value. We teach place value to our kids every single year, and every year we complain that they just don’t seem to get it. I think it’s important to acknowledge that our way of teaching computation […]
Classroom management: talking in class
Date: March 17th, 2015
By: Polly Bath
Kids talking during class is a battle we often have to fight. Watch this video for how I deal with it.
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