Whole Brain Teaching

Have a tough class? Need some new classroom management strategies? Whole Brain Teaching can transform your classroom! Learn what WBT is in this post!

I teach reading at an elementary school. I love what I do! I wanted to share some "ways to praise" that we use in my classroom. These ...

Whole Brain Teaching: Teach! Okay! and Switch! Click through to see how WBT can help in your Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade calssroom or homeschool! Plus there's a FREE download included, so you're sure to feel comfortable with everyt

It's so exciting to hear that so many of you are going to be trying Whole Brain Teaching this year! I know I am not alone in saying this, but when you do, you will love it and want to try more and more from this great program :) If you want to read all of my posts about it, you can by clicking HERE. Having received a lot of questions about how to start using WBT in your classroom, I want to share with you the top four principles of WBT, also known as the "Core 4". The Core 4 The Core 4 are…

To start at the beginning of this book club with me: Buy the book Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids Read about Chapters 1 & 2 here Read about Chapters 3 & 4 here Read about Chapter 5 here Join the Official Book Study here The assignment for The Book Study for chapter 6 was to come up with 10-15 new variations of Class Yes, WBT's attention getter. Here is a list of my favorites from the participants of the book club: Class Meow, Yes Meow (reminds me of Super Troopers!!) Class a doobie…

Current Super Improver Wall Super Improver Wall in August Let's just say this is the best thing I've ever implemented in my classroom! It comes from the Whole Brain Teaching book. I run the template above on the correlating color copy/construction paper. All my students started off with a white sheet of paper and they have to earn 10 stickers (the mini chart stickers you can find at the teacher store) to level up to the next color. So they've gone from white to green to blue and so on. They…

Teach kids classroom rules and build classroom management with the FREE Whole Brain rule posters for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade classrooms. This post includes tips on implementing whole brain learning.

If you've never heard of Whole Brain Teaching (WBT) then let me introduce you to the best way I've found to hold students' attention while learning.

Here is a Whole Brain Teaching set of posters that will be FREE in our store. Right now they come in two styles, but we may add others! We wanted to share them with you! Please head over to our store to grab your set. While you’re there, please follow us for updates on more freebies and fun products to use in your classroom. Also, check out some of the other items we have in our store. Click on the picture below: We hope you have a great day! Happy Summer! Karen & Alison

One of the many reasons I love Whole Brain Teaching includes their frequent progress monitoring tools. Throughout a lesson, there are many ways to ensure that students are learning what teachers are teaching. "Teach-Okay" uses students as teachers and at the end of the lesson is the "Yes/No Way!" and Quick Tests. Have you been to the WBT website? Go there immediately if you haven't! They have TONS of free resources and ebooks to help you through each step of the process. One of my favorite…