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Use this checklist from Mentoring in Action as a guide to interview your novice teacher mentee to assess their needs and areas for improvement. 

Use this observations checklist from The First Years Matter to help keep you organized while meeting with your mentor/mentee. 

Use this handy to-go checklist of 50 Teaching Dos and Don’ts from Serena Pariser’s Real Talk About Classroom Management to inform your teaching in your classroom.

In this complimentary activity from Keep CALM and Teach, teachers can engage in the first step toward having a CALM classroom: visualizing their ideal classroom.

The following activity from Concept-Based Literacy Lessons, Grades 4-10, uses strategies to promote critical analysis through the example of dystopian societies.

These exercises on walking meditation and levity moments from Mindful by Design include step-by-step mindfulness lessons embedded into specific curriculum areas, ready to implement immediately. 

Use these hugging and bridging methods from Visible Learning for Science, Grades K-12, to promote low-road or high-road transfer based on where your students are in their learning journey. 

Use these strategies from Developing Expert Learners to present misconceptions, paradoxes, metaphors, and different models to evoke dissonance in your students and test and challenge their prior knowledge.

Use this checklist from Developing Expert Learners to determine whether your teachers are developing expert learners and whether your students are displaying the characteristics of expert learners.

In this exerpt from These 6 Things, you'll learn to address the common student hang-up of public speaking and find strategies for how to address and prevent fear of public speaking in the classroom. 

Use this lesson from Text Structures from Fairytales to guide students to deeper understanding of the concept of challenge through analyzing the story of Cinderella. 

Maria Walther, author of The Ramped-up Read Aloud, lists her six tips for ramping-up your read aloud experiences to inspire our students and keep them engaged and interested in reading.