Why Didn’t I Learn This in College? Online Tools and Templates

The tools and templates featured here are designed to support the strategies presented in the text Why Didn’t Learn This in College?. These templates are organized alphabetically for your convenience. 

Check out the tools and templates by flipping through the booklet below. Note the tools that have potential for your use and then access the full-page tool in the list below. You can download and print the tools you select. 

See Terms and Conditions at the bottom of the page.

• Tool-1 A Good Place to Learn
• Tool-2 Anticipation/Reaction Guide
• Tool-3 Assessing Learning: How Am I Doing?
• Tool-4 Assessment Planning Guide
• Tool-5 Bingo
• Tool-6 Book Buddies
• Tool-7 Canadian Collaborators (Learning Buddies)
• Tool-8 Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
• Tool-9 Classifications or Taxonomies Graphic Organizer
• Tool-10 Clock Buddies
• Tool-11 Color Wheel Buddies
• Tool-12 Compare and Contrast Matrix Graphic Organizer
• Tool-13 Compare and Contrast Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer
• Tool-14 Creating a Positive Learning Environment: How Am I Doing?
• Tool-15 Cycle Graphic Organizer
• Tool-16 Daily Log
• Tool-17 Discussion over Time and Place
• Tool-18 Element Buddies
• Tool-19 Error Analysis
• Tool-20 Explanatory or Descriptive Graphic Organizer
• Tool-21 Frame of Reference
• Tool-22 Framing the Learning: How Am I Doing?
• Tool-23 Frayer Method
• Tool-24 Home Run/Strike Log
• Tool-25 Homework Planning Guide
• Tool-26 How I’ll Show What I Know
• Tool-27 Incomplete Assignment Log
• Tool-28 Integrating Literacy Instruction: How Am I Doing?
• Tool-29 Learning Log
• Tool-30 Lesson Planning Guide
• Tool-31 Los Compaà±eros de Clase (Learning Buddies)
• Tool-32 Making Connections
• Tool-33 Making Learning Active: How Am I Doing?
• Tool-34 Organizing the Classroom for Learning: How Am I Doing?
• Tool-35 Parent Function Partners
• Tool-36 Peer and Self-Assessment: Group Work
• Tool-37 Peer and Self-Assessment: Individual Participation
• Tool-38 Peer Observation Reflections
• Tool-39 Planning Instruction: How Am I Doing?
• Tool-40 Procedure Potpourri
• Tool-41 Questions Stems That Promote Student Thinking
• Tool-42 RAFT
• Tool-43 Reflections on the Week
• Tool-44 Rubric Design Guide
• Tool-45 SBE and Multiple Pathways to Learning
• Tool-46 SBE Planning Process
• Tool-47 Scavenger Hunt
• Tool-48 See and Hear Chart
• Tool-49 Self-Assessment: Three-Column Chart
• Tool-50 Self-Assessment: Writing Checklist
• Tool-51 Sequence or Chronology Graphic Organizer
• Tool-52 Setting Yourself Up for Success: How Am I Doing?
• Tool-53 Small Group Work Observation Form
• Tool-54 South America Learning Buddies
• Tool-55 Stir the Class
• Tool-56 Talking Tokens
• Tool-57 Task Analysis
• Tool-58 Text Frame: Inferencing
• Tool-59 Text Frame: Questioning
• Tool-60 Thinking Wheel
• Tool-61 Three-Column Chart
• Tool-62 3-2-1
• Tool-63 Top Ten Questions
• Tool-64 Unit Design: Brainstorming Map
• Tool-65 First Thoughts About My Unit Plan
• Tool-66 Unit Plan: Focus on Oval Three
• Tool-67 Getting Started with My Unit Plan
• Tool-68 Unit Design in the Standards-Based Classroom
• Tool-69 Working with Parents as Partners: How Am I Doing?

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The Why Didn’t I Learn This in College?  tools and templates on this site are copyrighted by Just ASK Publications & Professional Development, 2015 and are fully protected by copyright laws. Permission to duplicate the templates on this site is granted upon acceptance of the following regulations:

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