Teaching Styles Archives - A Lesson Plan for Teachers

Everything You Need to Teach World History Easily

Posted on April 17, 2024April 17, 2024 by Michele Luck

Organizing to Save You Time If you teach World History, I can imagine you are simply tired. No more needs to be said about that! But, I want to help. In this post, you will find links to everything I...Read More

Many Strategies for Student Learning In One Interactive Resource

Posted on September 4, 2023September 3, 2023 by Michele Luck

Teaching in today's world requires presenting content in a number of varied ways for student engagement and content retention. Wouldn't it be awesome to prep just ONE resource with different strategies for optimal student learning? If you are willing to...Read More

5 Effective Strategies for Differentiating in the Interactive Classroom

Posted on July 19, 2023March 19, 2023 by Michele Luck

As educators, we all know the importance of differentiation in the classroom. It is the process of tailoring instruction to meet the diverse needs of learners. Differentiation helps students learn more effectively and efficiently by providing them with a personalized...Read More

Exciting Projects to Motivate Students – Hands On Learning

Posted on April 12, 2023March 19, 2023 by Michele Luck

All teachers know that to motivate students to learn, we must first draw their interest. We must find exciting projects to motivate students to process, learn, and retain history concepts and events. The good news: these projects don't need to...Read More

Building Rapport in a New School Environment

Posted on February 28, 2023February 28, 2023 by Michele Luck

Your first year in a new school environment can be difficult. On top of lesson planning, you have to set up your classroom, navigate your way around a new school layout, develop relationships with staff and administration, and work on...Read More

Five Reasons to Use a Simple Unit or Lesson Plan

Posted on November 22, 2022December 18, 2022 by Michele Luck

Organization is everything. Along those lines, planning for your classes is the organization that can make a huge difference in success or failure for you or your students. These five reasons to use a simple unit or lesson plan will...Read More

Using History Resources to Better Support the ELA Classroom

Posted on September 6, 2022December 18, 2022 by Michele Luck

Students are now tasked with reading literature set in America's past yet often do not have the foundation they need to understand the context. There are many ways in which history resources can support the ELA classroom. These are not...Read More

Simple Ways to Teach Current Events Without Stressing Students Out

Posted on March 21, 2022March 5, 2022 by Michele Luck

There is a delicate but necessary balance between updating students on current history and stressing them out. Students, while ready and even eager to learn, can become overwhelmed with current events of today that are stressful, scary, or fear-inducing. While...Read More

Make Learning Inquiry Easy for Your Elementary Students

Posted on March 7, 2022February 18, 2022 by Michele Luck

With so many states adding Inquiry-Based Learning to the standards, it is imperative that we start teaching in ways that will facilitate this skill for our students. But it seems like a hard task to take on, especially in the...Read More

Inquiry-Based Learning That’s Easy & Effective

Posted on February 7, 2022February 6, 2022 by Michele Luck

Inquiry-based learning is really not anything new. It's definitely not something that teachers need to fear or stress over as they develop lessons to meet the new standards. Inquiry-based learning has been around for a while, under different names and...Read More