You’re a hard-working teach with too little time on your hands. That doesn’t mean you are willing to sacrifice the quality of instruction that happens in your classroom. That’s where I can help.
I’ve collected all my favorite, tired-and-true lessons and activities and made them available to the public. I already did the planning.
Now you get to do the fun part…TEACH!
I used to spend hours hand-drawing anchor charts for math. I would be almost done with one then make an error or end of tearing the chart paper and have to start all over. Can you relate? NO. MORE.
Now I print them off one unit at time and always have a crisp polished set of charts ready to go in a matter of minutes.
Then a brilliant teacher shared her hack of printing them half sized so kids could glue them into their notebooks as reference guides. AMAZING!
Learning how to organize and run my math block has made the biggest impact on learning in my classroom and been my secret to leaving school behind me when I walk out the door at 4:00. My kids learn more and I do less.
My students stay busy for a full 90 minutes with mini-lessons and a cooperative learning practice activity. Then they rotate between my teacher table, partner games, and interactive notebook desk work. At the end of that 90 minutes, I have already graded all the daily work.
These are a must for creating a high engagement classroom without spending your own valuable time to make it happen. Available one lesson at a time, a unit at a time, or as a full year curriculum.
Task cards are my favorite engagement hack. They cover all the same content as a worksheet but allow teachers to be much more creative and capitalize on the power of peer interaction. You can hang them on the wall for a solve-the-room gallery walk, place them at a math station for independent practice, or use them as the content for your favorite game or cooperative learning structure. I love to use the graphics on task cards to pull in our current theme or holiday. Check out the collection of math task cards for these holidays or seasons.
