Teacher Spring Cleaning: Instructional Practices & Strategies [S5 E142]

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With spring right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to revitalize your classroom, especially if everything is starting to feel a bit stale and overdone. It’s not quite time to throw in the towel yet, so let’s slap a fresh coat of paint on our strategies and bring things back to life!

Today’s episode marks the first in a three-part series on teacher spring cleaning. To kick things off, we’re talking about spring cleaning our instructional practices and strategies. In the episodes to come, we’ll look at spring cleaning our texts and topics, and then spring cleaning curriculum and activities.

These conversations are meant to breathe a little fresh air into your classrooms that will benefit both you and your students. If you try one of these strategies or have a favorite spring strategy, we’d love for you to share it with us. You can leave a voice message that we can feature on the podcast for other teachers around the world to hear. Don’t be shy! Click here to leave your message!

Topics Discussed in This Episode:

  • What we feel the need to purge from our classrooms when Spring comes around (or not purge if you’re like Amanda!)

  • Fun activities that we like to do during this time of year to freshen things up 

  • How ‘Reading Sprints’ can re-center your classroom and avoid undesirable behavior

  • Using group writing exercises to re-engage students

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