Multiple Choice Questioning: Pros and Cons for Effective Assessment
Multiple-choice questioning is a popular form of assessment that has been widely used in educational settings for decades. While multiple-choice questions are easy to grade and score, they also have cons, making them suitable for some types of assessments and not for...
Overcoming Life’s Obstacles with a Friend at your Side.
Many kids can relate to Leigh’s feelings of loneliness, insecurity, sadness over a divorce, missing a parent, trying to find their way and/or talent, and having a beloved pet that gives them unconditional love. The universal relatability is what makes Dear Mr. Henshaw and Strider such wonderful novels to use in your classroom.
Take a Lit-Trip with Esperanza Rising!
I came across a wonderful discovery, Google Lit Trips! This site is amazing to expand the background knowledge of a novel and to add a whole new dimension to the book. From the Google Lit Trip site: What is a Google Lit Trip? Lit Trips are downloadable files that...
Adults Find Standardized Tests a Challenge!
I stumbled upon a fascinating article that I believe is worth a read for everyone, not solely educators, but perhaps even more so for those outside the education field! When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids. It would be interesting...
Your Brain on Math!
I came across this article that discusses how children's brains go through different transitions as they age in the ways that they interpret and figure out math. Some excerpts that I found interesting from the article are below: "Students start off at the foundation...
How to Make Science Fun?
My daughter has made the comment that she didn't like science because it is "boring". I was not happy to hear that comment at all, but sadly I can't say I am surprised. Science used to be a favorite subject of hers but for some unknown reason textbook publishers, and...
The Season for Gratitude
Miss Giraffe's Class had a link up a couple years ago devoted to what TpT has brought to our lives. It's worth sharing again as we draw on this season of gratitude. One of my favorite things to do as a teacher was to create and teach novel studies. I loved to...
I’m Shelley from The Teaching Bank. I have taught 3rd, 4th, and 6th grades.
My goal is to provide lessons and units for K-12 that are practical and ready to teach with minimal prep needed.