As an educator it’s your job to critique. You help your students grow and become better by critiquing the assignments they turn in to you. However, there’s a fine line between critiquing and criticizing. Do you know the difference?

 The experts over at Collaborize Classroom have put together this free PDF to help teachers establish clear understanding of the difference between critiquing and criticizing students.
This free download not only gives you topics to consider when critiquing a peer but also suggests some verbiage for you to use to express your …

Lord of the Flies, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Chances are, if you’re an English teacher, you are well acquainted with these titles. If you’re looking for some new ideas you can use in your lesson plans while reading these books with your students, look no further!
Check out these free downloads for “Lord of the Flies,” “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”.

Collaborize Classroom has free lesson plans available to teachers for each of these books. These are …

Your vs. You’re, To vs. Too, Accept vs. Except, and writing “a lot” as “alot”.  These top the list as some of the most common mistakes in a student’s writing.  What if I told you I had a reference sheet that would clear up the differences for your students, today?
Collaborize Classroom’s “Help Students Avoid Mechanical Missteps Online” is a must have guide that every teacher should share with their students.  This guide addresses all of the frequent and annoying mechanical mistakes that just about every student makes.  Although this guide …

When you think of online discussions, subjects like English, literature, and history usually come to mind first. If you’re a science teacher and have been wanting to revamp your classroom discussions, I have just the thing for you.
Collaborize Classroom has a free PDF that’s full of ready-to-use ideas on how to inspire discussion and collaboration in an online science classroom. Use them for your online discussions, or adapt them to be used in your traditional classroom!
One thing that I found especially helpful in this PDF was the idea to upload …

As a teacher you never want to suppress classroom discussion or collaboration.

But there’s only so much time you can spend on discussion in your class everyday.  A good way to keep the discussion going is by taking the collaboration online.
So, the million dollar question… how do you weave together your in-class and with your online discussions?  Collaborize Classroom has created this free PDF to show you how to develop your discussions, notes, group work, and more, both in class and online.
By continuing in-class discussions online, you guarantee that no …

Taking your classroom online is a fairly new concept, so most teachers haven’t even thought about continuing their classroom discussions in a virtual classroom.
Maintaining a virtual classroom can be difficult if you haven’t done it before.  It used to require a lot of trial and error.  However, we’ve put together a four-part webinar series that’s all about how to start and maintain an online discussion as the facilitator.
By employing the tips and tricks classroom teacher and online discussion expert Catlin Tucker has to share, you make sure your students get …

With every passing day, we creep closer and closer to start of the 2011-2012 school year.  This means you’re about to be introduced to an entirely new group of students, most of whom are unfamiliar with you, and with each other.

A good way to get them introduced to one another and comfortable in your classroom is through “icebreakers”.  Icebreakers allow students to casually get to know each other on a personal level so they can work more comfortably together in collaborative setting.
Collaborize Classroom has a free PDF that contains 8 …