by LD Helfer | Jul 3, 2019 | Teacher Tips
Teachers are always on the lookout for easy and effective classroom management strategies to use with students. Especially when teaching middle school, it can be tricky to find something that pre-teen students will enjoy and buy into. A good behavior grid is a student...
by LD Helfer | Jun 27, 2019 | Math Professional Development, Teacher Tips, Uncategorized
Digital resources are an easy and engaging tool for teachers today. Except sharing them with your students can be time consuming or complicated. Unlike a paper worksheet or activity, you cannot just hand a digital activity to your students. Many teachers use Google...
by LD Helfer | Dec 24, 2018 | Math Professional Development, Teacher Tips
Teaching proportionality is a difficult task with any group of students, but with students who may be below their grade level in reading, teaching proportional relationships may seem to be nearly impossible. After years of working with English learners in the...
by LD Helfer | Oct 23, 2017 | Teacher Tips
As one to one classrooms become more common, teachers want to find great new ways to bring technology to the classroom. Choosing the right type of activity for using technology in the math classroom can be difficult. Math is such a hands on subject, that there are...
by LD Helfer | Aug 28, 2016 | Math Professional Development, Teacher Tips
True and false questioning is probably not what pops into your head when you think about a differentiated and rigorous math activity. The most plain of all question types really can become a thought provoking and multi-level activity that you can use with almost any...
by LD Helfer | Jun 30, 2016 | Teacher Tips
I am not someone who would claim to be a classroom management expert. Student discipline is actually one of my least favorite aspects of teaching, so having simple things that I could do to improve my students’ behavior is important to me. After ten years of...
