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some cave-markings only seem random until seen as a collective whole... and then they're just weird.

Teaching punctuation is about far more than teaching the rules. It's all about helping kids to form a habit of applying the skills.

Inside: Teaching Spanish without a textbook. I finally did it. Last year, I half-used my textbook, wanting to get rid of it and yet not quite knowing what to do instead. It had been a year of feverish research, scrolling through blog posts late at night, reading opposing opinions and sometimes coming away more confused than

Dear Prime Minister, Firstly let me introduce myself, I represent the many – the many teachers who today are worrying about the future of education. I am a newly qualified teacher. I come fro…

This portable cube is a great way to target open-ended WH questions during conversational speech. Use this cube with clients who have difficulty asking questions to maintain a conversation. Have the client roll the cube at random, or find a specific WH question, then ask the question shown. Be sure to model how to use the cube first! Clinician: "I'm going there tomorrow." Client: "Where are you going tomorrow?" Clinician: "To the beach." Client: "Why are you going to the beach?"

Times they are a changin', am I right? In technology, fashion, politics, you name it! Change is the name of the game--especially in education. As teachers, we

Learn three reasons why you should stop using Microsoft Word to make your worksheets (and what program you should be using instead).

When you eventually experience her as a fully separate person from you, this will feel easier

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Teaching a class of graduate students and need to explain why I'm worth listening to. So here's a quick look at my background. I'm teaching them about visual explanations so it seemed right to make a visual explanation. Drew it Saturday morning with Pilot Hi-Tec-C, 8.5"x11". So much I had to leave out. Another view of Don here. www.flickr.com/photos/36106576@N05/3806989541/in/set-7215... All rights reserved. Ask for permission.

Looking for some anti-school inspiration? Check out these witty, thought-provoking quotes on education & schooling. Maybe homeschooling IS the way to go.

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What is Gamifying? Gamifying is fun. It’s incentivising. It’s a classroom management strategy. Gamifying is the way many apps, programs,

I hope I’m not the only one who struggled with all the lingo when starting out as a teacher at an IB PYP school (International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme). Units of inquiry? Learne…

By Jennifer Fletcher The tweets, emails, and articles I’ve read the past few weeks in response to the launch of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that generates readable prose in r…

What are learned words? In Orton-Gillingham terms, learned words are what many people call sight words. You may also refer to them as red words or high frequency words. Most teachers can agree that learned

If you're like me, you have tried a thousand options for bell ringers/bell work. No matter what, the bell work needs a home, and for a long time, the bell work "home" has been in a notebook. Then, what do we have to do to grade it? COLLECT 125 SPIRAL BOUND NOT

It’s every teacher’s most stressful, most highly anticipated, and most powerful time of the year: back to school! After over a decade of first days back to school, I’ve finally found a plan for the first ten days that streamlines the three most important things for me: routines,

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Have you ever read through a blog, article, or social media post and thought, “This post is pretty good,…

The word order is always the same: (QUESTION WORD) + AUXILIARY + PERSON + VERB or ADJECTIVE. Am I joking? Is your brother a teacher? Are you coming? Is your sister coming? Where are they from? Why are you running? Where is he going?

Kung Fu student asks his teacher “Master, why does my ability not improve? I’m always defeated. And the master, pensive and forever patient, answers: “My dear pupil, have you seen the gulls...

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Many approaches to encouraging better thinking are abilities-centric, but Visible Thinking is about fostering dispositions of thought, creating a Culture of Thinking, and bringing students to the c…

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Inside: Teaching Spanish without a textbook. I finally did it. Last year, I half-used my textbook, wanting to get rid of it and yet not quite knowing what to do instead. It had been a year of feverish research, scrolling through blog posts late at night, reading opposing opinions and sometimes coming away more confused than