Knowledge Is Power And Teaching Is The Fuel
Teachers are professionals and their ‘clients’ are children and their function is teaching and their craft is understanding.
How Do You Teach Social-Emotional Learning?
Social-emotional learning is part of the bedrock of critical literacy: helping them care enough to change themselves.
The Simplest Way To Slow The Summer Slide
Slowing the ‘summer slide’ through daily reading, writing, and ‘playing’ supports children in developing learning habits that endure.
12 Things Every Lesson You Teach Should Have
Every lesson plan should have a clear and compelling–and accessible–role for each student during each moment of the lesson.
15 Reasons Schools Need Post-Progressive Teaching And Learning
Teachers are guides and coaches and content experts. A ‘post-progressive’ teacher would be empowered, not replaced.
10 Student Engagement Strategies That Empower Learners
One student engagement strategy is to offer diverse pathways through content–pathways students would have to ‘unlock’ to progress.
50 Crazy Ideas To Change Education [Updated]
Make any politician voting on legislation have to qualify for that right to vote by spending a certain number of hours in the classroom.
Reciprocal Teaching: A Definition
Reciprocal teaching is a teacher-guided strategy where small groups of students play specific roles in the comprehension of a text.
What Is Necessary For Learning?
Sugata Mitra showed that children could learn complex tasks in the absence of formal training, spurred on by curiosity and peer interest.
The Definition Of Digital Literacy
“Digital literacy is the ability to interpret and design nuanced communication across fluid digital forms.”
Why Worrying About Screen Time Might Be The Wrong Approach
While screen time certainly matters, focusing only on time is like developing a literacy program that focuses only on ‘minutes read.’
On Teachers And Teaching And The Essential Criticism Of It All
I’d be a little disappointed if the most enduring impression of a student’s time in my classroom was a mental image of me.
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