50 Everyday Formative Assessment Strategies
What Are Simple Formative Assessment Strategies For Learning? As frequently as a chef needs to check a dish for taste, teachers should check for understanding by using intentional formative assessment strategies. These can be formal–formative or summative assessment, multiple-choice, short…
4 Strategies To Promote Smarter Grit In The Classroom
4 Strategies To Promote Smarter Grit In The Classroom by Jennifer Davis Bowman, Ed.D. Recently, “grit” has surfaced as one of the more popular concepts in the classroom. It is often associated with desirable characteristics such as motivation and determination.…
10 Benefits Of Digital Planning Tools For Teachers
1 What Are The Benefits Of Digital Planning For Teachers? by Peter Hubbard, Daybookpro.com Planning engaging learning experiences for students, enabling them to meet or demonstrate specific standards or objectives, still remains the main part of the job of a teacher.…
27 Ways To Respond When Students Don’t Pay Attention
How Can You Respond When Students Don’t Pay Attention? Our initial reaction when seeing the following infographic from Mia MacMeekin was to think about instructional design rather than classroom management. That is, work backwards from a student-centered, inquiry-based, self-directed, and inherently personalized…
Hackschooling Makes Me Happy: A 13 Year-Old’s Uncommon Wisdom
A 13 Year-Old’s Uncommon Wisdom Disruptive thinking is a useful thing. It encourages difficult questions, conversations, and rethinking of trends and directions. It isn’t always a comfortable thing, usually occurring when other strategies for change have failed. Computer hackers–the principled,…
A Short, Humorous Look At Rigor In The Classroom
A Short, Humorous Look At Rigor In The Classroom Are your students struggling? Are test scores in the dumps? Do you spend all of your time researching, planning, teaching, and refining, to continued mediocre returns on state and district tests?…
Crowdsourcing In Education: 11 Underlying Principles
by Chris Yim, UClass.io Crowsourcing is huge in other industries, but has yet to affect education It doesnt make sense that teachers are recreating lessons over and over again With the Common Core transition, it makes more sense than ever that teachers…