Greetings from the Learning Bridges Team!
We want to provide YOU with FREE resources
and focus on special opportunities that might be helpful for your school improvement efforts.
We invite you to print the resources
that you can use in your classroom or school. We also hope you will share the newsletter
with your colleagues so that they might also receive the FREE resources. When it
is possible, we will connect the resources to your
state's content standards - whether those are
research-based instructional strategies/interventions or parent
activities.
We will feature one of the powerful online courses, an instructor, and a teaching
resource - all connected to your state standards and assessments.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
When you try an instructional strategy, share a parent activity with parents, complete
online professional development, or use one of the teaching resources, we hope you
will come back and share your
thoughts with us online. Read what other teachers have said, too!
We invite you to join our team as a Bridge to a New Way of Teaching and Learning!
Greetings from the Learning Bridges Team!
We want to provide YOU with FREE resources and focus on special opportunities that might be helpful for your school improvement efforts.
We invite you to print the resources that you can use in your classroom or school. We also hope you will share the newsletter with your colleagues so that they might also receive the FREE resources. When it is possible, we will connect the resources to your state's content standards - whether those are research-based instructional strategies/interventions or parent activities.
We will feature one of the powerful online courses, an instructor, and a teaching resource - all connected to your state standards and assessments.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
When you try an instructional strategy, share a parent activity with parents, complete online professional development, or use one of the teaching resources, we hope you will come back and share your thoughts with us online. Read what other teachers have said, too!
We invite you to join our team as a Bridge to a New Way of Teaching and Learning!
Read more
Featured Online Class - EDCI 604 Differentiated Instruction
For: All Content Areas, Classroom Teachers K - 12, Special Education, Title I, Gifted and Talented, ELL Teachers, Culturally Diverse, Mentors, Coaches
Learn how to differentiate instruction for your standards and curriculum with a 5 step model to meet the diverse needs of your learners in the classroom. Discover how you can easily manage learning, readiness, and interest profiles for your students. Learn differentiation techniques for content, product, and process. Understand how to incorporate Anchor Activities and Flexible Assignments into your lessons. Learn how to use Flexible Grouping, Curriculum Compacting, and Scaffolding to meet individual student needs. Learn new ways to use classroom assessment before, during, and after instruction.
Read more
FREE Instructional Strategy - Verbalization - Effect Size: 1.78
For: ALL Content Areas, Classroom Teachers K – 12, Mentors, Coaches, Culturally Diverse, Special Education, Title I, ELL Teachers, Gifted and Talented
What is Verbalization?
Verbalization is the practice of encouraging the learner to express the learning and connection-making process to themselves and others through self-talk, voicing thoughts, discussion, thinking, and writing about what is being experienced in the learning process.
Impact on Learning: 46 percentile points
Read more
FREE Parent Activity - Mathematics - Number Sense - Elementary
Standard: Understanding the relationship between whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
Most states have several benchmarks that address this standard. One might require students make models or drawings to represent the relationships, for example to show that ½ of a pizza is the same as 2/4 of another pizza of the same size. Another benchmark might have students learn to add and subtract fractions. Another benchmark might have students work with money. How can we engage parents to assist in support of our teaching of this standard?
Read more
Featured Instructor - Melanie Jiskra
My name is Melanie Jiskra and I have been an instructor for Learning Bridges since 2003. I have been an elementary education teacher for twelve years in the St. Cloud Area School District 742 located in central Minnesota. I have experience teaching in Pre-K, first, third, fourth, and fifth grade levels. For the past two years, I have also been a lead teacher with my district, which has allowed me the fortunate opportunity to observe and peer-coach with teachers across the district. I strongly believe in the positive power of collaboration and the impact it has on all learners. For the past year, I have been an AYP Support Teacher within the district, helping to facilitate best practice instruction and implementation for schools in the culture of change. In my ‘spare’ time … I also instruct graduate courses during the summers.
Read more
Featured Teaching Resource - 10 Best Teaching Practices
10 Best Teaching Practices
Donna Tileston
This exciting update of the original classic details the fundamentals of differentiated teaching strategies, teaching for long-term memory, collaborative learning, higher-order thinking skills, technology integration, and much more.
Read more
Discussion Topic - What do YOU think?
Given budget cuts, many schools are altering their class size reduction standards. How is your school handling class size and how will that impact your teaching?
Read more
