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  • Instructional Teaching Strategies

Instructional Strategies and Teaching Strategies in Your Classroom

July 31, 2026|

Instructional strategies are research-based methods that teachers use to deliver content to students and improve their instructional practice. But it also goes further than that, because by combining classroom management strategies, assessment strategies, and other brain-based and memory-based strategies to support students, they all work together to improve the classroom and increase learning. This article serves as a resource to understand how strong instructional and other teaching strategies translate to student success in your classroom. (Read more)

  • Think Pair Share Model

Think-Pair-Share- More Than a Discussion Starter

June 17, 2026|

We all know the Think-Pair-Share! It’s a common student collaboration strategy that is seemingly ubiquitous across classrooms. But it has been around long enough that many teachers will treat it as routine to incorporate into the classroom, rather than thinking more deeply about it as a true learning strategy. (read more)

  • Think Pair Share Webinar

Webinar: Thinking Together: The Think-Pair-Share Model

June 16, 2026|

In this Model Teaching Spotlight webinar, you will explore Think-Pair-Share as a research-backed collaborative learning model and learn how to implement it effectively in any classroom. You will consider some elements that determine whether a collaboration activity produces strong learning, evaluate the kind of prompts you might build to promote higher-order thinking and peer discourse, and consider how you might use the think-pair-share collaborative structure to engage your students.

  • Eriksons Theory in Teaching

Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development: A Guide for Educators

January 21, 2026|

Understanding the development of your students helps you become a stronger educator, because you can identify specific strategies and ways to help your students that are developmentally appropriate. There are many developmental theories present to explain our growth has humans over time, but this article will focus on just one: Erik Erikson’s eight stages of development.

  • Multi-Tiered Systems of Support MTTS Blog

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)

May 19, 2025|

MTSS is an acronym for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support. MTSS is a tiered framework that utilizes various student data to provide academic, social-emotional, and behavioral support to improve student educational outcomes in the school setting. The term “systems” is important in MTSS. MTSS requires the use of the entire school system, with multiple support methods, to come together in preventative interventions for students identified in need.

  • Outdoor Education

Types of Outdoor Education You Can Plan For Your Classroom

December 4, 2024|

Outdoor education can be broadly described as any kind of learning that occurs either in nature or in the outdoors. While outdoor education, or outdoor learning, is classified in many different ways, in this article you will learn about five common ways in which outdoor learning might be implemented.

  • Student Discourse

Putting Student Discourse to Work in the Classroom

September 18, 2024|

Putting Student Discourse to Work in the Classroom by Model Teaching | September 18, 2024. What is Student Discourse, and How Does it Benefit Students? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines discourse as “a verbal interchange of ideas.” But put into an academic setting, student discourse is the interchange of ideas between students that is focused on academic content. It is students talking to each other in a structured manner, using academic language. Importantly, discourse is an exercise in enhancing critical thinking and reasoning and should be focused on discussions that encourage a deeper look at concepts, as opposed to [...]

  • Peer Tutoring Strategies

How to Implement Peer Tutoring in Your Classroom

June 19, 2023|

Peer tutoring is an effective flexible grouping strategy that can be a terrific way to improve your instructional effectiveness, while also improving the sense of community, confidence, and leadership skills of your students. It is important to establish processes, provide support, and plan when choosing your tutor and tutee and it is important to consider several factors when deciding to use this strategy in your classroom. This blog post will provide you with an essential overview of several critical factors, concepts, and strategies to consider when considering peer tutoring for your students.

  • New Friends Bingo

The New Friends Bingo Icebreaker Activity

August 25, 2022|

Icebreakers are activities that help students connect with one another in a new setting. It can help set the tone for a year of fun collaboration and allows students who may not have made many new connections to begin to feel comfortable with their classmates. In addition, combining movement with dialogue can help students mentally “branch out” to make new friendships within the classroom.

  • The Four Corners Teaching Strategy

The Four Corners Strategy-A Verbal, Active Method to Check for Understanding

May 11, 2022|

The Four Corners Strategy is a simple verbal strategy to help engage your students and improve discussion and discourse. In Four Corners, a question is presented to the class, and students are given time to think about their responses. Students will respond to the question by standing in a designated spot of the room that represents their answer choice. Typically, you allow for each corner of the four corners of your classroom to convey an answer choice. After posing your question, students will reflect on their answer and then move to their designated corner of the room. The Four Corners Strategy is a wonderful way to encourage debate and discourse in the classroom while also visualizing students' differences in ideas. By posing questions that elicit a more open-ended response, you can encourage students to think more critically about the question and their answer and prompt them to justify their choice.

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