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Self-Management Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
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Transforming Education

Social Awareness Strategies

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...
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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 15

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...
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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Teachers turning into learners? It's not Freaky Friday! It's a thoughtful workshop that teaches participants how to plan professional development for staff. Third in a 15-part series, the workshop provides a platform for the other...
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Universal Engagement Strategies [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson where students are not engaged followed by descriptions of ten engagement strategies including turn and talk, green and red cards, everybody stand up, and more.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Solving Word Meanings: Engaging Strategies for Vocabulary Dev.

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A 5-lesson unit where learners learn to use context clues and semantic gradients together to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story. W.11-12.3b Narratives
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Edutopia: Learner Interest Matters: Strategies for Empowering Student Choice

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
When a topic connects to what students like to do, engagement deepens as they willingly spend time thinking, dialoguing, and creating ideas in meaningful ways. This article gives ideas on how to harness the power of your students'...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Starting & Stopping With Strong Imagery: Revision Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will engage in revising their writings to incorporate sensory images. Students will brainstorm topics of places, away from their home, that are special. Then students will choose and then write a descriptive...
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International Reading Association

Reading Online: Classroom Strategies for Exploring Authenticity in the Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Four innovative classroom activities that actively engage students in analyzing and criticizing media messages. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Strategies to Build Engaging Digital Lessons for High School Students

For Students 9th - 10th
In this blog, a teacher offers strategies for building engaging digital lessons as a result of the Covid Pandemic. My first task is to figure out how to make my lessons clear. I am working without the benefit of being able to circle the...
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Ad lit.org: Stuck in the Middle: Strategies to Engage Middle Level Learners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about three strategies that can help create a meaningful curriculum to engage middle-level learners. The strategies draw from effective classroom practices across grade levels, as well as from research about the social, emotional,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Engaging Stories With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.
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Ad lit.org: Use Cooperative Learning Groups to Engage Learners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
When teachers structure cooperative learning groups as part of the overall reading program, they also open the door to a multiple intelligences approach to literacy, which is inherent in cooperative learning. This article offers guidance...
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Ad lit.org: Engaging Family & Community in Afterschool and Summer Programs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Informal literacy experiences often serve to shape young people's identity as readers and writers as much as or more than formal schooling.Community and family support can emphasize the importance of reading and writing, build...
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Ad lit.org: Student Motivation and Engagement in Literacy Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers can help students build confidence in their ability to comprehend content-area texts, by providing a supportive environment and offering information on how reading strategies can be modified to fit various tasks. Teachers should...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Inquiry Charts (I Charts)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Inquiry Chart (I-Chart) is a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing. Students integrate prior knowledge or thoughts about the topic with additional information found...
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EngageNY

Engage Ny: Lesson 19: Analyzing Decisions and Strategies Using Probability

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
In this lesson, students compare strategies by evaluating the associated probabilities of success. Additionally, problems are included where students are asked whether the result of a probability experiment provides sufficient evidence...
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Other

Leadership in Ed.: Engaging Students Through Rigorous and Relevant Instruc [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site is a Power Point presentation entitled Engaging Students through Rigorous and Relevant Instruction. The presentation includes research, instructional strategies, and assessment tips.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story with a strong plot in seven mini-lessons: Introduction, Choose the Point of View, Figure Out What to Say, Suspend Readers in Midair, Write about a Central Theme, Read A...
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Teach Hub: Teaching Strategies to Keep Students Engaged in Learning

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Through different teaching strategies like project-based learning and the flipped classroom, new techniques have changed the way teachers teach and learners learn. Here are a few more teaching strategies that are guaranteed to keep your...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Semantic Feature Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Semantic Feature Analysis strategy engages students in reading assignments by asking them to relate selected vocabulary to key features of the text. This technique uses a matrix to help students discover how one set of things is...
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Seed Discussion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Seed Discussion is a two-part strategy used to teach students how to engage in discussions about assigned readings. In the first part, students read selected text and identify "seeds" or key concepts of a passage which may need...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: 3 Ways to Hook Into Student Engagement

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Improve student engagement in your classroom with these three techniques: Implement Active Learning Techniques, Ask Open-Ended Questions, and Employ Gaming.