Lights, camera, action! Math educators consider how to improve their instruction by examining a model of the five-practice problem-solving model involving a movie theater. Participants examine cognitive demand in relation to problem...

A PowerPoint presentation prepares instructors for teaching learners about self-efficacy, a key competency of social-emotional learning. The 29-page presentation is designed to give administrators and teachers a deeper understanding of...

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...

How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...

If you really speak WELL, people will love to listen! In this lesson, students will practice routines to help them speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. Teaching this in the first weeks of school sets...

It is very important to build a class community where all students feel valued and safe. This activity will do just that and you will address the Common Core speaking and listening standards. Students will get to know each by discussing...

Great lesson plans spanning a wide-range of language arts-related subjects.

Links to 75 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to...

In this lesson students are given provided many opportunities to practice both informal and formal speaking skills. They begin with informal speaking in pairs, then groups of 4, etc. Then they write several drafts of a formal speech...

In this lesson, a subject of high interest to students is the vehicle for teaching skills that may be perceived as boring to students. Nominating a performer for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame allows students to recognize...

This conversation activity uses 1-2 decks of playing cards to prompt discussion: each card represents a specific question. The site provides instructions and a suggested list of questions to match each card.

A series of four video lessons for English language learners, focusing on listening, speaking, and pronunciation in English. The lessons focus on producing accurate sounds, listening to rapidly-spoken English, and understanding idioms...

Explore effective interview questions. By choosing questions that are open-ended and important to them, students can learn great interview skills that can be helpful in future college and job interviews.

For this lesson, students create future-self plans. When presented with the idea of future possible selves, students have the opportunity to identify who they want to be.

Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...

In this lesson, students will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.

In this lesson young scholars will write an informative sentence in response to listening to the story; "Mice squeak, We speak". Included in this lesson are examples of student work, videos of oral presentations, and puzzle pieces for...

Students will partner read The Kite, by Alma Flor Ada. Then work together in small collaborative groups to describe the character of the mother, the children, or the kitten. Included in this lesson are video demonstrations, printable...

In this interactive instructional activity, students learn about Spanish action verbs while exercising!

Outstanding lesson that presents most of the word endings that determine gender. It also considers common exceptions to the rule. Without a doubt, this lesson shines above all others in teaching students how to determine the gender of a...

Great activity on the use of por and para. Ample examples illustrate the rules for their application. A quiz follows the activity to test the student's mastery of por and para.

Great introduction to demonstrative adjectives and pronouns. Ample examples illustrate the different forms of demonstratives that may be used.Students can test their mastery of this grammar principle with a quiz that follows the lesson.

This Spanish tutorial on special uses of the definite article and exceptions to the rules for its normal usage features examples that illustrate its application to countries, titles and other special situations. Students test their...

Thorough explanation of days of the week, their plural forms, and their use with definite articles. Ample examples demonstrate this concept. A short test at the end of the lesson plan tests the student's mastery of this grammar principle.