Date: April 14th, 2015
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.
Date: April 9th, 2015
Sometimes we have to deal with physical altercations between students. Watch this video for five techniques I use.
Date: April 8th, 2015
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 […]
Date: April 2nd, 2015
Date: March 26th, 2015
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.
Date: March 25th, 2015
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 […]
Date: March 17th, 2015
Kids talking during class is a battle we often have to fight. Watch this video for how I deal with it.
Date: March 12th, 2015
It really gets to us when a kid rolls his eyes. Watch this video for my tip on how I handle the situation.
Date: March 5th, 2015
We’re all familiar with those kids who don’t pay attention during class and think they won’t get caught. We need to be careful not to get into a power struggle with them. Watch this video for my easy tip on how I handle it.
Date: February 26th, 2015
Right from the beginning of the school year, I set my classroom up with three important rules. Watch this video to see what they are.
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