Teachers who see their leaders engaged in the day-to-day operations of the school, whether it’s dealing with a challenging student or covering a class, are more likely to feel supported.
What is Diagnostic Teaching? Diagnostic teaching is a step-by-step, intentional process for pinpointing exactly why a student is struggling.
Benchmark Assessments, Peer Assessments, and Student-Led Conferences are among other alternatives to report cards in school and the classroom.
Of course, you won’t always be correct but the goal of these kinds of positive assumptions isn’t accuracy, it’s giving children room to grow.
When one teacher meets another, they exchange ideas. Comparing and finding common ground and learning new things is nearly automatic.
How can you teach critical thinking? This framework offers a way to integrate critical thinking in your classroom.
Protecting your planning period by shutting your door isn’t ‘backwards teaching,’ it’s a survival strategy.
Everything around us is some kind of pattern and we look for them. That’s how minds work. Learning requires us to disrupt those patterns.
“What did you learn in school today?” It’s easy to resort to cliches when talking to kids about school. Here are some alternatives.
Reliable ways to refocus students and begin instruction smoothly. Calm attention cues, transparent routines, and grade-band examples teachers can use right away.
These are some of the best motivational videos for students to help with mindset and perspective–seeing the commonality in human experience.
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
These 32 research-based instructional strategies include Setting Objectives and Reinforcing Effort/Providing Recognition.
‘3 Before Me’ requires that when students are stuck, they must first try to solve the problem in 3 different ways before asking the teacher.