For some teachers, bringing technology into an elementary classroom can be overwhelming. What tools should you use? How much is too much? Or enough? What if the kids break their… Continue reading "5 Ways to Use Edpuzzle with Elementary Students"
Why Should I add Audio? We need to continue to make material that is easily accessible to all of our students. Whether you are presenting a lesson, engaging students in… Continue reading "Adding Audio to Google Slides 3 Ways"
Looking for ways to change up how you use content and language objectives in your classroom? Below find 5 ideas on how to up your game with content and language… Continue reading "5 Ideas to Up Your Game with Content and Language Objectives"
We need to ensure that everything provided to our students are accessible. It wasn’t until I started using the accessibility checker that I noticed easy adjustments to ensure equal access… Continue reading "Why You Should be Using the Accessibility Checker on Canvas"
Practice and Application The 6th component of SIOP is Practice and Application. Practice and Application focuses on how will students will practice both the content and language objectives. It is… Continue reading "Making Learning Concrete with Hands-On Activities and Manipulatives"
All secondary teachers and students have free access to Explain Basics on their self service app store on the iPad. If you haven’t used this iPad app it can be… Continue reading "3 ways to Implement SIOP in under 10 minutes with Explain Basics"
October 16 Update: Canvas has now made immersive reader available in more areas, not just pages. Read more below. Our students enter our classrooms with different life experiences. This is… Continue reading "Using Immersive Reader and New Quizzes to Build Background in Canvas"
No two students enter our classroom with the same life experiences. This is especially true when you have English language learners as members of your classroom community. To help counter… Continue reading "Building Background with Seesaw"
Apple Classroom is a tool that every teacher can find useful. Need to quickly navigate all students to one location on Safari or navigate to an app? Want to project… Continue reading "Apple Classroom: A Teacher Super Power!"
All accommodations are focused on one thing: how do we make the content accessible to the student? Several years ago, I was challenged to think about an educational Hippocratic Oath.… Continue reading "Low Barrier, High Impact Accommodations"
Creating and using common behavioral and academic language across grade levels within our schools increases success and accessibility through repetition and consistency. SIOP has taught us that visual cues provide needed support… Continue reading "Using Common Icons in Seesaw"
At Elkhart, putting students first is at the heart of everything we do. One way to ensure all students learn is to be very intentional that every student can access… Continue reading "Starting the Year Strong with Accessible Learning"