Teaching Tips

Providing feedback is proven to increase student learning, and there are ways to make the work involved more manageable.

Coaching students to think in terms of concepts helps them understand how to apply their learning in the future.

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Smith

Children often struggle to pay attention, but when they are given a task they view as challenging or hard, they are even more likely to give up before truly trying. If you notice a child that is regularly losing focus during challenging tasks, here are some strategies that might help increase that attention span and improve the overall outcome of tasks.

Including emotion regulation activities in math lessons can help elementary students learn the content more effectively.

Quick breaks that help students refocus so they can return to work feeling centered and ready to learn.

Young children want friends but don’t always know how to treat them, so promoting heathy ideas about friendship in preschool is key.