Pedagogy

BellWork: Start Your Class with Engaged Students

The Most Important Management Tool in the Teacher Toolbox

Are you yelling at your students to get quiet and begin class? It can be so stressful to begin every class, of every day, this way! BellWork will bring quiet sanity to your teacher life! There are many names for it- BellWork, Bell Ringers, Warm-Ups, First 5’s, but they all mean the same thing. What …

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Teaching Nomenclature with Confidence

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If you are a chemistry teacher, you have probably experienced teaching your heart out– just working away teaching nomenclature. They’ve got it! Great! Then, the first assignment comes along, and students promptly begin sticking roman numerals and prefixes everywhere! Ugh! What are they thinking? What is the best way to teach this concept in a …

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