"Why does Macbeth, who knows that his actions are evil and will be punished, continue to choose evil?" Through this study of Macbeth's evil deeds, high school learners will not only test their reading and research skills but also explore...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient grouping strategy. Teachers will learn to motivate students with the "Pick a Card, Any Card" strategy. It explains how to use it to select parts for reading a play in class.

How can you motivate adolescents who have never turned on to the magic of reading? Tutoring teenagers is as much about building self-confidence as teaching skills. Low self-image and feelings of powerlessness trouble many unmotivated...

Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...

Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...

During this unit, students will ask "Why do we do what we do?" They will read different novels to analyze character motivation. Throughout the unit they will debate whether they think characters made smart choices and why. They will also...

This lesson engages students in reading and research related to the Victorian Era. Students will analyze this time period's influence on the writings of Charles Dickens. Then students will analyze how today's authors incorporate social...

Genius Hour is inquiry-based, student-directed learning. It gives students an opportunity to look at the big wide world around them and explore their own unique interests in a loosely structured, but supported way. This article gives...

Teaching that struggling is part of learning math encourages creativity and builds engagement and perseverance. This article describes Mrs. Tambor's second-grade math class in which the format of the lesson reflected her desire to build...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to motivate middle school students to read. A link is provided that contains 25 graphic organizers related to reading and note-taking.

A California State University student research paper into the motivation to eat. Gives details to some of the theories on why humans feel hunger. Many references.

This lesson plan will allow students to experience the election process of an American President through a mock election. Students will learn the steps that must be followed in order to have an election. This is a great way to get...

Learners will work in groups of two or three to produce two pages of a digital scrapbook covering a thematic element from Macbeth. The pages will then be assembled into a visual review of the play's themes and character motivations...

This site from Access Excellence explores how, as an educator, you can incorporate critical thinking skills into the classroom. Content focuses on how to cover content so that students can grasp information, engage with the teacher, read...

Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons, the...

What is the role of teachers and schools in regards to communication with parents? Come and explore this informative article revealing how important open communication is for students.

In this lesson, a teacher describes the steps being taken to encourage students to become independent readers outside class time.

Students explore the LEGOLAND theme parks and demonstrate an understanding of how new markets can be created and that cultural and social differences can affect these markets.

Students examine tradeoffs and profit- maximization decisions in the case study of Kaiser Aluminum, which decided to shut down aluminum production in favor of reselling electricity.

Teaching a student to be a self-directed learner can be a difficult concept to approach since learners are often driven intrinsically. This article takes a critical look at the process, product, and problems with self-directed learning....

One of the keys to helping struggling readers is to provide them with books that they can and want to read. Fiction for struggling readers must have realistic characters, readable and convincing text, and a sense of the readers'...

When we prompt our students to create art based on "self," how many of us get generic pictures or simple ideas? This game is designed to stretch each student's self list so that they have a wide variety of expressive ideas to choose from.

Your attitude counts! Look here for hints from the U.S. Department of Education on monitoring students homework. For students of all ages and for parents, this is a guide, checklist, and a list of resources that will help with homework.

The goal of this activity is for students to learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp. Students realize that the narrative impulse underlies even...