How To Never Run Out Of New Ideas As A Teacher
Just like a great teacher can teach anything, a great learner can learn from almost anything–and teachers are first learners.
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Tone In Teaching: 20 Words That Can Change How Students Think
Tone affects how students see themselves and their role in the learning process. The words you use when interacting with students can have a lasting impact.
How Should We Teach Social-Emotional Learning?
Social-emotional learning is part of the bedrock of critical literacy: helping them care enough to change themselves.
Rethinking Grading In A Project-Based Learning Classroom
Rethinking grading in project-based learning can support students by clarifying complexity and rewarding nuance of understanding.
The Two Minds Of A Practicing Teacher
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
6 Questions Every Teacher Needs To Answer In Order To Grow
Broadly speaking, there are two types of professional development (or ‘PD’): formal and informal. The latter is a new breed of PD, characterized by teachers interacting, collaborating, and improving via …
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6 Instructional Strategies That Challenge And Support Students
A teaching strategy is anything the teacher does to help students learn. From reciprocal teaching to clarity, here are 6 to get started.
How To Make A Student Give Up
If you really want to make a student give up, set the bar high and withhold the praise until they reach it.
How Learning In Your Classroom Is Different Than Learning In The Real-World
Quick post with a basic premise: how are ‘school learning’ and ‘real world learning’ different? For now, we’re going to skip the more crucial discussions about whether or not this …
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