This collection of instructional tools is designed to support meaningful learning, streamline classroom management, and promote student engagement across all grade levels and content areas. Whether you’re planning lessons, organizing group work, managing behavior, or reviewing content, these tools are practical, easy to use, and ready for immediate implementation.
Use these tools to bring structure, creativity, and clarity to your classroom routines—and empower students to take ownership of their learning. From review games to noise monitors, everything here is chosen with real-world classroom needs in mind.
Virtual Manipulatives
Description:
Virtual manipulatives are interactive digital tools that help students visualize and explore mathematical and scientific concepts. These online resources are especially helpful in both in-person and virtual learning environments.
Benefits:
- Strengthens conceptual understanding through visual models
- Promotes hands-on learning without physical materials
- Supports differentiated instruction for diverse learners
🔗 Toy Theater Virtual Manipulatives
🔗 Didax Virtual Manipulatives
🔗 The Math Learning Center – Math Apps
Accommodations
Description:
Accommodations provide necessary support for students with learning differences, ensuring they have equal access to instruction and assessment. These adjustments benefit all students by offering multiple ways to engage and succeed.
Benefits:
- Promotes equity and inclusivity in the classroom
- Builds student confidence and reduces barriers
- Helps educators meet individual learning needs
🔗 TEA Student Accessibility and Accomodations Resources
🔗 Accommodations Guide – Understood.org
Instructional Tools for Learning
Description:
Instructional Tools offers a collection of research-based strategies. These powerful tools help teachers design purposeful instruction, build student ownership of learning, and assess understanding in real time.
Benefits:
- Provides planning support and scaffolding responses in real-time
- Encourages student-centered instructional routines
- Includes high-yield strategies for engagement and formative assessment during the lesson
🔗 Whiteboardfi | Dry Erase Pockets
🔗 Fist to Five | Quick Write
🔗 The
Cooperative Learning Structures
Description:
Cooperative Learning structures are powerful instructional strategies to foster student collaboration, promote active learning, and increase engagement through structured interaction.
Benefits:
- Encourages participation from every student
- Builds social-emotional skills and teamwork
- Supports retention and comprehension through collaboration
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