Teacher Toolbox

I have found that as a teacher in her first weeks of teaching it is often difficult to remember how I was taught what I'm trying to teach my students.  I have used a variety of instructional strategies in my 3rd grade classroom including the age-old Venn Diagram and T Chart. However, sometimes I am stumped when I try to brainstorm a new graphic organizer or instructional strategy to teach my 3rd graders how to organize and analyze the information they read every day.  I stumbled upon this website that not only provides a list of instructional strategies, but it provides links to each instructional strategy with resources teachers can utilize to engage students and check for understanding.  It also, as you can tell, translates into high test scores (an unfortunate, but very real concern). This would be a great thing to add to a new teacher's toolbox and to reference as you plan! http://www.tltguide.ccsd.k12.co.us/instructional_tools/Strategies/Strategies.html