How to Motivate Students and Keep Them Enthusiastic About Learning
We all know how important engagement is to helping students learn and retain information. Yet motivating students to engage in a lesson is a constant challenge.
One Month in: A Look Back to 2018
I can’t believe it’s already February! Before we find ourselves in June (time flies) I’d like to go down memory lane to the best stuff from 2018. Last year was a pretty amazing one for me. I released a new book on Co-teaching and created a related Audio Course on "The HOW of Co-teaching." I was bles [...]
Classroom Activities for Valentine’s Day!
January has flown by in the blink of an eye and now Valentine's Day is just around the corner. I’ve collected the best classroom activities and lesson ideas for your classroom offered by some of the top teaching blogs for February. Enjoy! The Curriculum Corner offers wonderful free Valentine hundred [...]
Dear Susan – Motivate Students with ASD
No matter how hard I try, no matter how much research I do, and no matter how many plans we come up with, I have still been unable to help these students make progress. Are there any uncommon or outside-the-box strategies that could help me motivate students?
When Traditional Instruction Doesn’t Work: Use Tier One Teaching Strategies so All Students Succeed
Early in my career, I was a special education teacher and a co-teacher who worked within the inclusion model at the secondary school level. I became convinced that EVERY high school classroom needs to begin with RTI (Response To Intervention) Tier One, with differentiated teaching strategies, so that every student can learn.