Three AI teacher assistants, a curated collection of math activities, a website-building curriculum, a site for helping students change the world, and more.
Whether you're brand-new to block scheduling or you've been doing it for years, these strategies will have you handling those 90 minutes like a boss.
The sit-and-get, one-size-fits-all model is disappearing. Taking its place are these 9 alternative models for teacher professional development.
What they don't teach us in education courses is just how freaking much students talk, and how hard it can be to quiet them down. Help is on the way.
We want students to work at their own pace, but when one student is significantly slower than his peers, it can cause problems for him and for his teachers.
How do you run a differentiated classroom, where each student is working on separate tasks at different speeds? See how one teacher manages a self-paced class.
How do you run a differentiated classroom, where each student is working on separate tasks at different speeds? See how one teacher manages a self-paced class.
Are any of these ineffective teaching methods still part of your practice? Time to reconsider.
This model and template will help college, high school, and middle school teachers put together a syllabus that sets you and your students up for a great year.
Here is a handy infographic we have been working on for the last couple of days. We compiled 32 educational websites based on the Ultimate EdTech Chart we published a few months ago. We arranged these websites into 8 different categories and for each of these categories we came up with four websites that best represent the selected content area. The categories we have included are : websites for language arts teachers, websites for math teachers, websites for science teachers, websites for physics teachers, websites for history teachers, websites for social studies teachers, websites for arts teachers, and websites for music teachers. You can find links to the websites in this chart. Enjoy This visual is available for free download in PDF format. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).
Instead of rating and judging a person's performance in the past, feedforward focuses on their development in the future.
To do the work of a teacher and stick with it long enough to get good at it, you need a level of emotional resilience most other jobs will never require.
Work smarter, not harder: A collection of ideas you can mix and match to get control of the paper load.
In too many classrooms, students aren't really thinking. It's time to try something different.
The reasons your students (or audience members) aren't participating the way you want them to, and some new things you can try to get a better response.
Are your worksheets contributing to meaningful learning, or just keeping students busy?
How do you run a differentiated classroom, where each student is working on separate tasks at different speeds? See how one teacher manages a self-paced class.
Too many schools are producing non-readers at an alarming rate, but it doesn't have to be that way. Pernille Ripp and I talk about how to change things.
Learn the simple, quick strategies cognitive scientists say can boost student learning in any classroom.
Rubrics are meant to clarify expectations, but poor design can make the experience anything but clear. These five guidelines will help.
Are any of these ineffective teaching methods still part of your practice? Time to reconsider.
In a teaching tailspin? These four research-based principles of instruction will help you focus on what really moves the needle.
Focus your planning by getting clear on just three things: the WHAT, the HOW, and the WHY.
This cooperative learning strategy has been around for decades, but how well do you really know it?
In a self-paced classroom, each student is given an appropriate level of challenge and grows at a steady pace throughout the school year. Here's how it works.
HyperDocs make room for more interactive, personalized, and student-directed learning. Let's look at how they work.
A digital curation project is a fast way to engage critical thinking in any content area. Here's how it works.
It can feel unnatural at first, but once you've given validation a try, some of your most difficult conversations are going to get a whole lot better.
Are your worksheets contributing to meaningful learning, or just keeping students busy?
Your new favorite teaching strategy: This pared-down version of learning stations keeps the movement, interactivity and variety while minimizing the prep work.
Nothing cements long-term learning as powerfully as retrieval practice. Learn how to incorporate it into your classroom.
Here they are: 15 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging.
Even if you've been teaching a while, you might still experience moments when all of your classroom management tools stop working. This one cheap, quick strategy, using a simple blank notebook, can help you regain control in under a minute.
When done well, co-teaching offers benefits for both students and teachers. When not done well, it can be confusing or downright frustrating for all involved.
Your students probably already use these tools to write papers or create presentations, but they could be doing other projects you may not have thought of.
Let's teach students how to approach those deer-in-headlights moments more constructively.
Three AI teacher assistants, a curated collection of math activities, a website-building curriculum, a site for helping students change the world, and more.
Starting mid-year means you won’t much time to prepare your classroom, set up procedures, and plan good lessons. Here are some tips to help you stay sane.
