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Understanding Learning Targets
The most meaningful student learning happens when teachers design the right learning target for today’s lesson and use it along with their students to aim for and assess understanding. This resource will help you distinguish between instructional objectives and learning targets.
Productive Talk Tools
Increasing productive student talk is a key piece of modern instruction. This is great to use as a scaffold in whole group and small group lessons across a variety of content areas. Make sure to give students a copy, too!
Think About It!
This is the perfect resource for students to stop and think about how their behavior is impacting those around them. Great for students who need to increase self-regulation or who frequently disrupt lessons. Recommended for use in helping with metacognition and self-discipline.
At First I Was Thinking...
This graphic organizer helps make student thinking visible and allows readers to consider how their thinking changes as they read. Students can jot down thinking after three separate reads, or just three specific places in the text.
Treasured Math Resources
Express Your Thinking
Writing is not a separate entity from the mathematics curriculum; it is part of it. This organizer allows students to unpack their math processes and allows the teachers to informally assess. Math teachers in grades 2 through 8 could benefit from this resource.
Math Prompts
Prompts can support mathematical thinking, or not. This resource shows examples of effective math prompts and those that are less effective. This cheat sheet would be useful for all math teachers.
Number of the Day Stretch Grades K-2
Daily stretches build conceptual understanding in math. This sample is an example of how to use everyday numbers to represent mathematical thinking and build math knowledge. This resource is for K-2 math teachers. More math stretches are available in our shop.