In every classroom, no two students are alike. They all learn at a different pace and have different learning needs. Teachers must create lesson plans that meet all of the different student needs. The best way to achieve this is to know as much as possible about each student before creating lesson ...

Everyone has their own elements of a lesson plan format that they use or feel comfortable with. These five are linking prior knowledge, engaging and educating, active learning, reflecting, and extending learning. ...

One of the most challenging principles of teaching for me is the knowledge of learners. When the school year first begins even the most experienced teacher has to learn about the new students.  It is not always easy when these young people with different backgrounds and learning abilities ente ...

It is important to expose our children to as many experiences as possible at an early age. This will help build the background knowledge needed to feed off of when encountering new learning experiences in school and throughout life. For example, if your child is brought up working in the garden wit ...

If you work with English Language Learners (ELLs), you must find ways to build their background knowledge. Many ELLs come from other countries that do not share the same culture, ideas, and family values as U.S. born and raised students do. Therefore, when they come into our classrooms and we are t ...

It is important for a teacher to determine what a student knows at the beginning of the year. This is the only way a teacher knows what accommodations need to be made to meet the students needs. Every student is different but the way a teacher learns about each one is the same.First of all the teac ...

     So very often gifted children are the ones who do not succeed in school. They are the students who should be getting high grades, who could get high grades without even trying, but so many of them are the ones who are failing in high school frustrating and baffling those wh ...

    The relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension are the same for all children, English Language Learners or not. It is important for a child to have an understanding of basic vocabulary to be able to comprehend what they read.   English Language ...

Each lesson plan that a teacher creates has an assessment at the end. Each lesson plan is created so that a student gains new knowledge. Many lesson plans include key academic vocabulary so that the student learns new words to help learn content knowledge. It is important that the academic vocabula ...

Technology is amazing. The advancements in technology have brought many positive changes. But, in the end are the advances in technology really positive or are we, as a people digressing in our ability to think? Technology does have its advantages however people are becoming so independent on it th ...