Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week

Each week, I publish a post containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here.

You might also be interested in The Best Articles (And Blog Posts) Offering Practical Advice & Resources To Teachers In 2015 – So Far and The Best Resources On Class Instruction of 2016 – So Far.

Here are this week’s picks:

This was a very interesting tweet:

“Rigor doesn’t equal more stuff” – @mcnellie40 @jessicarae929 at #ISTE2016
Check out Hess’s cognitive rigor matrix! https://t.co/PVq0N6swEZ

— Alicia Johal (@AliciaJohal) June 29, 2016

I had never heard of those matrices before – I went to link and you can access multiple versions here (such as for close reading and for social studies).

I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom.

I’m adding this next tweet to The Best Posts On Writing Instruction:

A5: Create progressions to give kids a model of what writing about reading could look like across the levels #tcrwp pic.twitter.com/VSwC2dZLnN

— Katie Clements (@clemenkat) June 30, 2016

I’m adding this last tweet to A Very, Very Beginning List Of The Best Resources On Bullying — Please Suggest More:

How 1 teacher used these apples to deliver a powerful lesson on bullying https://t.co/ULqI4ZtVNi via @todayshow

— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) June 27, 2016