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Health Education

This image is from the book Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications What are the Six Domains of Health in Health...

Verbs for Language Objectives

Image from: http://digitalsandbox.weebly.com/language-objectives.html What are some examples of process-oriented and performance-oriented...

The Positive Effects of Participation in Extracurricular Activities

Black (2002) acknowledged that extracurricular participation and academic achievement are directly linked. Participating in...

Meeting the Needs of Second Language Learners

What are the three dimensions of language proficiency described by Cummins (2015)? Why are educators frequently confused in the...

Understanding People with Special Needs

What does it mean to be on the Autism Spectrum? In the video “The World Needs All Kinds of Minds,” Temple Grandin (2013) described how...

The Idea of Co-Teaching and its Different Strategies

What is Co-Teaching? Co-teaching is defined as two teachers sharing planning, organization, instruction, assessment, and physical space...

Engaging Students in Art and Technology

How can we incorporate technology into an art lesson? Visual art is one of the areas in the school curriculum where teachers are not...

Identifying Students with Disabilities and Strategies to Support Them

What role does a teacher have in identifying a student with a disability? To determine whether special education services are needed,...

Strategies to Help Students with ADHD Stay on Task and Tiering Lessons for Them

Strategies to Help Students with ADHD Stay on Task and Tiering Lessons for Them What strategies can you use to help students with ADHD...