Teaching Tips and Strategies

Learn how to ask effective questions, avoid teacher bias, and build classroom community with these proven strategies for educators.

  • Teacher with digital tablet near blackboard in classroom
    Basic Strategies for Providing Structure in the Classroom
  • Students using cell phones in a classroom
    Classroom Rules for High School Students
  • Substitute teacher helping young student working on laptop
    Classroom-Management Tips for Substitute Teachers
  • Teacher pointing at student with raised hand
    Classroom Layout and Desk Arrangement Methods
  • A teacher conducts a lesson
    The Importance of Organization for Teachers
  • Scaffolding instruction for students is like moving students up a ladder of learning
    How Scaffolding Instruction Can Improve Comprehension
  • Students and teacher in a classroom
    12 New Teacher Start-of-School Strategies
  • Teacher pointing to students with arms raised
    Important Daily Teaching Tasks
  • Children on a school field trip in nature
    Field Trips: Pros and Cons
  • student struggling to read at desk
    10 Strategies to Boost Reading Comprehension
  • Assignment Biography: Student Criteria and Rubric for Writing
  • Civil rights advocates march on Washington, D.C. in 1963.
    How John Lewis' "March" Trilogy Can Teach Students About Civil Rights
  • The cover of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    Censorship and Book Banning in America
  • Pi Day Activities
  • Teacher demonstrating sculpting to students.
    The 10 Worst Things a Teacher Can Do
  • Close-up of man clapping hands against black background
    Effective Praise in the Classroom
  • Student writing essay
    Creating and Scoring Essay Tests
  • Teacher With Digital Tablet Near Blackboard in Classroom
    8 Questioning Techniques to Get Students to Analyze
  • A school classroom
    The Pros and Cons of Block Schedules
  • Teacher talking to students in classroom
    Methods for Presenting Subject Matter
  • Teacher and students in a group setting
    Cooperative Learning Versus Traditional Learning for Group Activities
  • Teacher Helping Students with Writing Assignment
    Avoiding Teacher Bias and Erroneous Beliefs
  • Girl assisting friend while studying in classroom at school
    Time-Filler Games for Every Classroom
  • Pros and Cons to Flexible Grouping in Middle and High School
  • Students in computer room with teacher
    Effective Teacher Questioning Techniques
  • 4 Poetic Formulas for Geometry Class
  • pen on blank paper
    The Prewriting Stage of the Writing Process
  • Children raising their hands in a classroom.
    The Many Purposes of Education
  • Teacher addressing class
    My Best Teaching Experience
  • 8 Motivational Strategies and the Proverbs that Support Them
  • Well behaved students raising hands in class
    4 Tips for Effective Classroom Management
  • Building an Effective Classroom
  • Businessman and businesswoman talking in office
    How to Have a Successful Teaching Job Interview
  • Student with head down on desk
    How Teachers Must Handle a "Lazy" Student
  • Teacher preparing her lesson plan.
    Planning Classroom Instruction
  • Stop Classroom Clutter
  • 5 Keys to Being a Successful Teacher
  • Wait Time in Education
  • Studying in class together
    Benefits of Cooperative Learning
  • Boy reading in classroom
    Using Cloze Tests to Determine Reading Comprehension
  • Teen girls doing each others' hair in bathroom
    Dealing With Trips to the Bathroom During Class
  • Teacher talking to parents at parent teacher conference
    Tips for a Successful Parent-Teacher Conference
  • Traditional Linzer cookie with strawberry jam, top view. Female hands making cookies.
    Valentine's Day Language: Learning Idioms, Metaphors, and Similes
  • Teacher collecting homework.
    Collecting Homework in the Classroom
  • Students Sitting attentively in a Lecture Hall
    Creating a Positive Learning Environment
  • Professor talking to college students at table
    Tips for Student Teachers
  • Teacher with digital tablet near blackboard in classroom
    Tips for Teaching Multiple Preps
  • Students taking a test in classroom
    Creating Effective Fill-in-the-Blank Questions
  • toilet paper
    Bathroom Pass System for the Classroom
  • homework policy
    Creating a Homework Policy With Meaning and Purpose
  • great lesson
    Creating a Great Lesson to Maximize Student Learning
  • Elie Wiesel's Speech for Holocaust Units
  • Teacher interacting with kids in class with tablet
    The ABCs of Teaching: Affirmations for Teachers
  • School girl (8-9) writing on blackboard with female teacher checking her
    A Teacher's Words Can Help or Harm
  • Portrait of Smiling Substitute Teacher
    11 Things Substitute Teachers Can Do to Get Asked Back
  • Improve Algebra Content Vocabulary with Poetry
  • Teacher taking notes
    Teacher Housekeeping Tasks
  • Woman on a tablet with math chalkboard
    Math Curriculum Plan of Study
  • Young man writing English sentences on the blackboard
    Language Arts Warm-Up Practice
  • beyond the classroom
    What Teachers Do Beyond the Classroom When No One Is Looking
  • The simple post-it note is a powerful reading comprehension tool for all grade levels.
    Post-It Note Strategies to Improve Understanding
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