This website offers a wide array of tools that both beginning, and more experienced teachers can utilize to help students learn curriculum subjects; assess students' development; differentiate instructions for students with particular learning needs; and manage students' behaviour before, during, and after class. And each of the tool pages contains both videos that demonstrate them in action, along with templates for different grades that teachers can use.
While each of these tools are useful, the ones that I found to be of particular interest pertain to differentiating instruction and classroom management, as I seek to ensure that my lessons are accessible to as many students as possible, and because limiting behavioural disruptions from students is required for lessons to proceed effectively. Examples of these types of strategies include sentence stems and non-verbal signals.
Sentence stems help students form complete sentences by having a teacher write sentences and leaving fill-in-the-blank spots which students then need to find the correct answers to. This strategy can be used repeatedly to help students remember how to organize words and numbers into sentences, and is particularly useful for students who struggle with writing like English Language Learners (ELLs).
Non-verbal signals are hand gestures that are used to relay simple messages between teachers and students without speaking, thereby allowing them to communicate their needs without interrupting class discussions. Additionally, teachers can use hand signals to ask particular students questions without calling their names. By doing this, students have the opportunity to process a question and decide if they want to respond without feeling as though they are being put on the spot.
Overall, this website has proven to be very helpful in my studies and I highly recommend it, especially in regard to classroom management.
Presented to you by: moneill@NU
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