Increasing impact on Incidental Vocabulary Aquisition is a big task, but a few simple strategies can change your student’s long-term approach to new words.
Vocabulary Development Strategies for Long-Term Impact
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CTL’s Vision of Schooling Includes Project Based Learning
Project based learning helps CTL achieve one of our goals: to advance a vision of schooling that engages all students in interesting and rigorous work, develops their talents and abilities, and prepares them for college and career.
Reading in the New Year!
We want to give you the opportunity to bring the excitement of Artful Reading 2019 to your students and your classroom. We are offering a 25% discount if you buy one of our tested modules before January 21st.
Formative Assessment: A Recipe for Student Persistence
In the quest to change classroom and school culture to one that fosters confidence and success in all students, teachers can use the formative assessment process as a key strategy in helping students who otherwise believe that their skill…
Helping Students Understand Their Own Thinking
Students need to learn early in their educational career how to think about how they solve complex problems, what learning strategies work best for them, how they adapt what they are learning to new situations, and those questions will not be answered without a lot of help from their teachers.
Leveraging Literacy and the ALM Model to address Social Emotional Learning Part 3: Writing
The purpose of writing is what gets at SEL. Having the freedom and space to reflectively write can afford students the opportunity to think about and process how they are feeling, doing and learning. Through the insight gained into the students’ thinking, the teacher can build trust and relationships with students.
Leveraging Literacy and the ALM Model to address Social Emotional Learning Part 2: Reading Comprehension
The first blog post in this series introduced the notion that teachers do not have to choose between meeting students’ educational or social emotional needs; they can naturally address both together. According to CASEL, the Collaborative for Academic, Social and...