Promising Practices
Effective Methods, Techniques, & Activities
Highlights:
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Connecting Kids and Soldiers
Invite students to write letters and send "care packages" to soldiers abroad. -
Use Editorial Cartoons to Teach About Elections
Harness the allure of cartoons to teach about elections and civic engagement. -
Reviving Reviews
Revive those often-deadly skill reviews with a game or two. -
Line-Up Review
A veteran reading teacher describes a review strategy that is fast paced, involves engagement with a large number of classmates, and prompts students to verbalize their learning.
Promising practices in education are those methods, techniques, and activities that help educators be more effective.
- C.A.R.E. Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gaps - A multi-themed approach to closing the achievement gaps, focusing on Culture, Abilities, Resilience, and Effort (C.A.R.E.).
- Research Spotlight on Best Practices in Education - NEA reviews of the best pedagogical practices.
RELATED LINKS
- Best Evidence Encyclopedia
Evidence on proven programs. From Johns Hopkins University School of Education - Assisting Students Struggling with Reading
Practice guide for educators using interventions with primary students. - Professional Learning in the Learning Profession
U.S. and abroad. - Center on Instruction
Reading, math, science, special education, and ELL.



