6 Strategies for Reteaching

Are you struggling with what to do while reteaching a concept to your students? Try these six strategies to beef up your reteach, and make your students feel like rockstars!

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9 Ways to Involve Families of ESL Students

Our classrooms are becoming more diverse every day, and with diversity comes struggles to include everyone in the educational process. Communication can be one of the biggest struggles when working with an ESL family, but it is vital that we include not only the student, but their whole family in our classrooms. Following are 9 tips for involving ESL families in your classroom through communication and inclusive activities.

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Using Graph Paper as a Math Accommodation

Happy September!  It's Nicole from Learning Lab.  We just went back to school last week and, boy, am I exhausted!  I'm excited to share a teacher trick with you this month. 

As a special education teacher, I work with a lot of kiddos with tracking issues that impact their reading, writing, and math skills.  In addition, many of them also struggle with fine motor skills and have larger than typical handwriting.  

One of the ways that I help my students during math is to have them use graph paper when solving problems.  

Handing out graph paper for your students to use to work through problems is a very simple way to help them keep their numbers aligned correctly.  

As you can see, you can easily use it for every operation.

I had our Occupational Therapist push in for one of my math reviews and she LOVED how the squares limited the space for each digit.  She was so impressed by the penmanship my kiddos showed!

I downloaded and printed this free graph paper here. 

Another cool way for your students to practice math skills is by using one of my self-checking Pin & Spin sets.  My students BEG to use these!

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