Teaching Strategies
Take Your Class Outside
Tiptoe through the tulips with your students - without trampling your curriculum standards. How having class outside can actually improve student behavior!
The Workplace Matters: Teacher Quality, Retention, and Effectiveness
Strategies to retain more teachers through improvements in workplace conditions, particularly at hard-to-staff schools.
Professional Community and Professional Development in the Learning-Centered School
Judith Warren Little offers a strategic overview of best practices at the school level in professional development.
Diversity Toolkit: Class and Income
Class and income differences lead to differences in school funding, which results in differences in school quality and, ultimately, in student learning. Consider the main issues and examine the strategies.
Diversity Toolkit Introduction
NEA resources on how our differences can enrich our schools and everyone.
Safe Schools for Everyone: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Students
NEA's commitment to addressing the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students plus information and resources for educators to create great schools for every child.
Diversity Toolkit: Race and Ethnicity
Teaching about race and racism in the United States is a complex and emotional process.
Diversity Toolkit: Social Justice
Social justice refers to a concept in which equity or justice is achieved in every aspect of society rather than in only some aspects or for some people. The main issues are explored and strategies are presented.
Diversity Toolkit: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
GLBT individuals still face discrimination and intolerance based on pervasive stereotypes and myths about GLBT people. To address GLBT issues effectively, review the main issues and consider taking one or more of the following strategies.
Diversity Toolkit: Gender
Disparities exist between boys and girls in achievement and graduation. Stereotypes and bias may inform how boys and girls are taught. Explore the main issues and examine the strategies.
Diversity Toolkit: English Language Learners (ELLs)
Achievement gaps between ELLs and non-ELL students are deeply rooted, pervasive, complex, and challenging for educators. Consider the main issues and review the strategies that could close the gaps.
Diversity Toolkit: Cultural Competence for Educators
Cultural competence is the ability to successfully teach students who come from a culture or cultures other than our own. Examine the main issues and consider the strategies.
Hispanic Education: Background, Teaching Resources, Issues, & Scholarships
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
2011 C.A.R.E. Guide: Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gaps
The 2011 C.A.R.E. Guide provides research and practice tips to help educators improve the learning experiences of culturally diverse students and students from low-income families.
Service Learning Resources
Our Service Learning Resources can help your students become civic superstars.
Cure Winter Doldrums with In-Class Exercise
The initial burst of energy following the winter break has run its course, and your students are feeling somewhat…unfocused. How to snap them out of it and regain that learning momentum? Try exercise.
2010 Kids Count Special Report: Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters
Strategies that can help curb high school dropout rates, increase the number of students graduating from college, and prepare them to compete in an ever-evolving global economy.
Second Hand Secrets
A strategy to help children and young adults develop an understanding of the health risks associated with second hand smoke.
Live, Online Professional Development for NEA Members
NEA Member Benefits and Tutor.com join forces to provide live, online professional development to NEA Members. Teachers will have unlimited access to experienced coaches in a private online environment that includes text-chat and VOIP.
6 Steps to Successful Co-Teaching
Six steps very helpful steps to prepare you for a sucessful co-teaching experience.
The Arts Are Essential
Arts programs are frequently the first to be cut when school budgets are tightened. Preserve them by integrating them across the curriculum.
NEA Academy
The Nea Academy offers the best in online continuing education and Master's degrees that will fit your budget, your schedule, and your life.
Diversity Toolkit
This online toolkit provides an introduction to the multiple facets of diversity. It offers basic information, a short list of strategies and tools, and suggestions for how to find out more.
Graphic Organizer for Pre-Reading
Graphic Organizers preteach the main concepts and terms in a text providing students with a mental framework on which to build new knowledge.
Directed Reading - Thinking Activity
DR-TA encourages students to make predictions while they are reading and make new predictions about what they will read next.
Ask the Expert
You can't teach a class that's out of control. But Kate Ortiz, our classroom management expert with more than 30 years of experience, may be able to help. Describe your situation and you’ll have an answer within 24 hours.
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