TeachThought Staff – Page 117

A Process For Responding To Your Most Challenging Students

The students’ strengths–and your trust–are two tools that can help you form a relationship when working with challenging students.

There once was periodic table song whose frenzied pace and extraordinary organization made it seemingly irreplaceable — here’s another!

1 in 4 females in grades 9-12 considered harming themselves in the last year. The white female teen suicide rate has tripled since 1999.

Every mistake is an chance to make something beautiful. This is the theme of Beautiful Oops!, a journal that teaches the value of mistakes.

Having students interact with one or more peers can build community, increase engagement, and make learning more active.

The current debate over standards is a sign of ignorance. It consumes us, but offers empty calories, not sustenance for a deeper journey

Emphasizing how one student can impact another is not only useful for modifying behavior, but can create a learning community.

The idea of actually using Wikipedia to explicitly teach research for an entire unit is less common than its use for researching credibility.