With the renewed energy of a new day, I decided to look for grouping cards that don’t need to be mailed from Australia.  Science Kit of Boreal’ Laboratories has a set of 30 that group students in grades 7-9 and reinforce science facts at the same time.  I love the inexpensive ones from Really Good [...]

When I was teaching Spanish, I tried a zillion different ways to put students in groups – counting off, drawing names, creating groups of mixed ability ahead of time, all girls, all boys, month of birth, …  I wish I had known about the Bellmetrics Grouping Cards.  Unfortunately they are made in Australia, although they [...]

Experienced teachers have many ways of getting students’ attention.  Raising your hand for silence is probably used more often that anything else, but there are many other things you can do.  You might try a new attention grabber from this list written by Leah Davies. M.Ed.  I once tried #19, which is to use the [...]