• Classroom Strategies

    5 Strategies to increase family engagement

    Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if click through and make a purchase. Parent involvement and family engagement. Are they the same? Although parent involvement and family engagement sound interchangeable, their meanings are actually quite different.  Parent involvement often means communicating with parents about how they can be involved in the learning process whereas family engagement involves a deeper more meaningful relationship between schools and families.  I will help to establish an understanding of the differences between parent involvement and family engagement and also to demonstrate how both can be used in conjunction to create a…

  • Classroom Strategies

    5 Strategies for differentiated instruction in the primary classroom

    What is differentiated instruction? Differentiated instruction is a teaching framework that involves meeting the needs of every student.  Every student is different and every student has different needs they need to be met in the classroom. Differentiated instruction provides students with different avenues of learning with the goal of supporting all learners in the classroom.  There are many types of teaching strategies that can help you achieve the differentiation your students need. How do I differentiate instruction in the primary classroom? In the primary classroom, we see many different learning styles, which can provide a challenge when determining how to differentiate. In my kindergarten classroom, my students’ skills differ dramatically.…