September 2015

September 18, 2015
Flocabulary Team

Flocabulary All Week and All Year: Use Our New Planning Guides!

Maybe you’re a middle school ELA teacher, planning to review comma usage, how to write a thesis, or the plot of the Odyssey this school year. Or maybe you’re a 5th grade teacher looking for standards-aligned content that will excite and engage your students - and is varied enough to cover the breadth of subjects that you teach each day. Either way, there are hundreds of videos and lessons on Flocabulary ready for you - but maybe you’re looking for some guidance to help with planning and pacing with our resources. Because we’re always looking for ways to support educators,…

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September 2, 2015
Flocabulary Team

3 Ways Flocabulary Engages Your Students

Flocabulary is guided by a mission to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. But just how well do we do that? To find out, in June we invited classroom teachers who use Flocabulary to complete a multiple choice survey about how their students respond to our videos and activities. We wanted to examine three branches of engagement: Behavioral engagement - a measure of persistence and participation, and of complying with classroom rules. Emotional engagement - a measure of students’ feelings about school, their teachers, and their classwork. Cognitive engagement - a measure of how students feel about their…

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