MAXTeaching
Want to engage all of your students in the material your teaching? Would you like to have a class that participates, discusses, and writes about issues at a high level? Click here to find out more about Dr. Mark Forget's (for-zay) strategies and techniques to engage students using literacy skills and the course's textbook.

Reading Quest
Click here to find more practical strategies and templates to engage students in Social Studies Using Reading and Writing Skills with the help of Dr. Raymond Jones.

Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking
Click on the link above to find a wide variety of research based instructional strategies that help students think critically using Reading and Writing strategies from Greece Central School District in New York State.

Essential Questions
Essential Questions drive Instruction towards the information, skills, and concepts found in the academic content standards. Focus questions help set the stage or focus student learning for an individual topic or theme. Click here to find out how to construct a good essential question or focus question.

Interactive Notebooks
Click here to find out how you can help your students organize their work and engage them in their learning with an Interactive Notebook.

Culminating Projects (coming soon)
Culminating projects provide students with the opportunity to review material and standards, to discover new information, and to create products that demonstrate their understanding of a particular unit of instruction. In some ways, it is like re-teaching the previous unit, but this time can explore and go beyond what they had learned the first time to produce a quality product.

Collins Writing
Looking for a program that will allow you to get your students to write more and more effectively? Need to find a way to prepare your students for Short Answer and Extended Response Questions on Ohio's Achievement Test and OGT? The Collins Writing Program and Strategies for their Five Types of Writing may be what you're looking for. Be sure to look at the information on Five Types of Writing and Focus Correction Areas.

Webquests and Virtual Field Trips
Looking for an option to the traditional field trip? Take your students on a virtual field trip / experience using MS Word, Powerpoint, or Tramline. Take a trip to tramline.com to see how you can set a VFT for you class.