In part 1 of this 6-part series, Thomas Stanley looked at an overview of blended learning, specifically the critical interactions of a blended learning model. In part 2, he looked specifically at student-to-student interaction, and the reality…
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5 Basic Tips To Reduce Student Test Anxiety
Tests aren’t going away anytime soon, and as the stakes increase, when the time for tests rolls around everybody in the classroom can get a little edgy. Teachers need all the help they can find…
6 Questions To Guide You In Choosing Your Next Professional Development Conference
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 technology. Social media platforms like…
10 Practical Ideas For Better Project-Based Learning In Your Classroom
By Jennifer Rita Nichols, TeachThought Intern Teachers are incorporating more and more projects into their curriculum, allowing for much greater levels of collaboration and responsibility for students at all levels. Project- based learning is a…
What Happens When Students Are Simply Free To Learn?
If you could learn about anything, what would you choose to learn? If you gave this freedom to your students, what would they choose? Last fall, Patti Grayson shared with a few friends and me…
8 Brilliant Alternatives To Blogging In The Classroom
Blogging is–or should have been–a boon to teaching writing, but somehow it never quite got there. Though professional blogging (ahem) can indeed pervert some of the best parts of writing (which basically amounts to packaging…
What Teaching Writing In The 21st Century Might Look Like
So I was looking through an old Animal Farm unit of mine when I found some notes I had written that sketch a basic outline for a “writing” unit (i.e., a unit designed primarily to…
8 Characteristics Of A Great Teacher
What makes a teacher strong? What differentiates the best from the rest? There’s no shortage of bodies (some dramatically misguided) attempting to solve this riddle. The answers are nebulous at best. Below is a list…
5 Tips For Encouraging Struggling Students From The New Science Of “Smart”
How the School Experience Can Demoralize Struggling Students In school, we figured out pretty quickly who was smart and who was “dumb.” Smart students made As, or at least were capable of making As if they…
Learning Is Not About The Technology
You have an expert Skype or Google Hangout into your classroom. Students discover a career they want to pursue. It’s not about the technology. It is about the learning. Your students are creating deep reflections…
10 Benefits Of Blended Learning For Teachers [Infographic]
Blended learning–the mixing of eLearning and face-to-face learning–is a natural response to the growing accessibility of eLearning, and the continued need for a human component, and the existing infrastructure of countless brick-mortal educational institutions. In…
6 Alternatives To Bloom’s Taxonomy For Teachers
At the end of the day, teaching is about learning, and learning is about understanding. And as technology evolves to empower more diverse and flexible assessments forms, constantly improving our sense of what understanding looks…
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