What is a Learning Station
Traditionally, a learning station is an area in the room where one student – or a group of students – complete an activity on one skill. Normally, there are different […]
Articles by Chris Skierski
Why You Should Create Learning Stations
Learning Stations can have many positive impacts on your classroom and your students. Below are 10 reasons. Be sure to check out the related articles, as well as the free […]
15 Strategies for the Student who Keeps Blurting Out
Every teacher has felt the frustration of a student who shouts out things in the middle of class, disrupting your lesson, getting students off task, and driving you bananas. There […]
3 Great Ways to Teach Adding Integers
Often, middle and high school teachers find themselves trying to teach a skill, only to find that their students have still not mastered Adding Integers. Here are 3 different […]
What to Do When Your Students Still Don’t Get It
Every teacher knows the frustration of spending a sufficient amount of time teaching and reviewing a concept, only to have students still not “get” how to do the work. I […]
How to Teach Your Students to Learn from Their Mistakes
I think you’ll agree that mistakes are a valuable teaching tool. Yet too often in the traditional model of teaching, students are penalized for making them, or afraid of making […]
5 Reasons Students Struggle with Subtracting Integers (and Solutions)
In my first years of teaching I noticed an interesting phenomenon with my students. Maybe you’ve noticed it too. I started the unit with Adding Integers and at the end […]
How to Make Your Students Behave – 7 Positive Reinforcement Strategies
You have no doubt felt the frustration of a class that was difficult to manage. Despite all the discipline in the world, they continue to misbehave and test your patience. […]
Why they Can’t Add Integers (7 Hacks to Help them Master it)
7 Teaching Hacks to Help them Master it! You have most likely felt the frustration of trying to help a middle school or high school student perform a grade level […]
5 Things to Put in Your Substitute Folder
On your desk, there should be an Emergency Substitute Folder, in case the worst should ever happen, and you are unexpectedly not able to get to school on a day […]