Teaching Strategies Instructional Strategies | 48-Card Flip Deck for Middle High

This tool is a gold mine of lesson planning and instructional strategies for any first-year middle or high school teacher wanting to start strong or veteran teacher looking to perfect their teacher toolbox.

This quick, no-nonsense flip deck with 48 of the best secondary strategies will elevate any teacher's lesson delivery.

These universal strategies work with any subject: social studies, ELA, math, and science!

Be sure to also grab its companion flip deck: 48 Lesson Engagement Activity Ideas

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Greatness is appreciating that no lesson can be captivating without a great teacher leading the way.

Every PD program out there seems to have trademarked “their” methods and “their” discoveries as if they own the secret. And our overstuffed bookshelf is proof of our search for it.

But yet we still find ourselves staring down at our blank plan book Sunday night or our empty agenda board Monday morning, wondering...

Where do I even begin to make a unit out of this topic? ... One that makes me excited to teach it?

How do I make this learning target into a lesson? ... One that wasn’t the same thing as yesterday?

Great teaching is great teaching. Period. And now finally it's been curated down to something you can actually utilize.

The scientifically proven (and re-proven) lesson components, plug-and-play teaching strategies, and concrete examples of the moves that work with all students boiled down into easy-to-flip-through, use-today strategies.

Included in this Deck

7 research-backed strategy cards for each of these 6 approaches to deliver captivating lessons:

• Grabbing their attention with memorable hooks
• Giving effective directions to prevent confusion
• Tweaking the lesson into one that “sticks” in their minds
• Transitioning smoothly from one task to the next
• Planning units with the end in mind
• Taking students’ learning beyond the surface level
• Plus blank cards to add your own!

This handy, stash-anywhere flip deck is universal enough to help any middle or high school teacher looking to trade that pile of highly-recommended-yet-still-unread books for the palm-sized simple clarity of what great teaching is.

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What Other Teachers are Saying

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An essential for newer teachers. When you're overwhelmed and have brain fog due to stress and being tired, little reminders such as these can help for how you can attempt things and get a variety of strategies going. I'm going to get a ring and keep these all together in a slot in my desk. - Courtney

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love having these ideas on hand for planning. They are very useful. - Kimberley

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you so much for creating this product! I always keep it at hand when planning my lessons. - Luciana

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Want to add to your Flip Deck?

Lesson Engagement Activity Ideas: 48 idea cards covering everything from vocabulary to nonverbal to small group

Leadership Team Building Activity Ideas: 48 idea cards covering everything from introductions to debriefing

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