Assuming The Best: The Power Of Teaching Through Positive Assumption
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.
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What Happens When Teachers Connect
When one teacher meets another, they exchange ideas. Comparing and finding common ground and learning new things is nearly automatic.
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4 Levels Of Integration For Critical Thinking
How can you teach critical thinking? This framework offers a way to integrate critical thinking in your classroom.
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7 Teaching Secrets For Long-Term Growth
Protecting your planning period by shutting your door isn’t ‘backwards teaching,’ it’s a survival strategy.
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The Most Important Things Students Learn At School
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.
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Alternatives To ‘How Was School?”
“What did you learn in school today?” It’s easy to resort to cliches when talking to kids about school. Here are some alternatives.
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Ways To Quiet a Noisy Elementary Classroom
Reliable ways to refocus students and begin instruction smoothly. Calm attention cues, transparent routines, and grade-band examples teachers can use right away.
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8 Videos To Motivate Students In And Out Of The Classroom
These are some of the best motivational videos for students to help with mindset and perspective–seeing the commonality in human experience.
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The Two Minds Of An Educator
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
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32 Research-Based Instructional Strategies
These 32 research-based instructional strategies include Setting Objectives and Reinforcing Effort/Providing Recognition.
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What Is 3 Before Me?
‘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.
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5 Strategies For Incorporating Social Emotional Learning Into Your Classroom
These five strategies social emotional learning strategies will not only benefit students, but can also be beneficial to teachers, too.
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6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom’s Spiraling is the process of starting first at lower levels of Bloom’s–recalling, defining, explaining, etc.–and then progressively increasing the level of thinking.
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15 Mental Health Tips For Teachers
One mental health tip for teachers? As much as possible, set clear boundaries between school and home life.
