What Is The Purpose Of A Question?
The source, frequency, and quality of questions from students are among the best data points to evaluate thinking in your classrooms.
Year: 2018
21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology
Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with the urgent pace of change in the ways people read and write.
How To Burn Yourself Out As A Teacher
If you’re increasingly tired, prone to Sunday night blues, and your July excitement is replaced by dread, teacher burnout could be why.
Permanently Disrupting Education. With Smartphones.
How To Disrupt Education With Smartphones. by Terry Heick The concept of disruption is an apt one in our fluid, digital, and almost destructively social world. In response to the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s, it’s not surprising to see that trend continue now that technology has caught up with our inherently rebellious…
A Giant List Of Really Good Essential Questions
Essential questions are ‘essential’ in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries.
Why Virtual Reality Is So Important For Education
Virtual realities can be designed precisely for human interaction for very specific reasons to create experiences not otherwise possible.
Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
Video is a pedagogical goldmine. What ‘viewing comprehension strategies’ can students use during and after watching videos in class?
From Explaining To Surviving: 27 Things Teachers Are Good At
From skipping ahead to falling behind to socializing to over-explaining to simply surviving, here are 27 things teachers have to do well.
50 Alternatives To Lecturing In The Classroom
From Accountable Talk to interactive RAFT Assignments, podcasting to debate, there are countless alternatives to lecturing.
30 Lessons For Teachers From Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss is gold–whimsical and visually interesting traipses through surreal worlds, and always full of life advice.
How To Design A 21st Century Assessment
21st century assessment design involves using digital tools, collaborating with others, performance tasks, and more.
7 Characteristics Of Teachers Who Effectively Use Technology
Teachers who effectively use technology in the classroom have one thing in common: They care more about learning than the tools that cause it.
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