In a recent professional development session centered on crafting effective learning targets for elementary arts classrooms, educators explored how these targets can transform teaching and learning. Learning targets provide essential focus and direction by clearly defining what students are expected to learn, ensuring alignment with standards and instructional goals. More than just instructional tools, they …
Music to Increase Reading Engagement
Allowing young readers to read all types of media will help them engage fully in the reading process. Do you have a reader that is disengaging from regular text? Try adding some music or finding a website/app that includes music or sound effects. Here is one I created that students could listen to/watch while they …
Post Pandemic?
The last few years have been the hardest in teaching, even harder than being a first year teacher! Hey, when you're young, you don't know what you don't know! After being shut down in March of 2020, teaching a wonderful Kindergarten class of 11 students in person in 2020-2021 year, and a rotation model of …
Blake Siskavich 