How To Teach Empathy In The Classroom
Want to teach students empathy? Start by helping students themselves not, “How am I unique?” but rather “How are we the same?”
-
-
9 Questions To Reflect Critically On Your Own Teaching
Video your teaching to see what really happens in your classroom. Then, reflect critically on your teaching with these 9 questions.
-
12 Smart Ideas To Grade Essays Faster
Grading essays can be extremely time-consuming. Here are 12 smart–and simple–ideas to grade essays faster.
-
Is Great Teaching Sustainable?
Good teaching is addicting–a kind of magic. It’s also unsustainable by the standards we’ve created for schools and teachers.
-
Help Students Understand Where They Come From
In helping students understand empathy, teachers give award learners the influence they have always held, but maybe didn’t realize.
-
16 Strategies For Using Digital Choice Boards In The Classroom
Strategies for creating digital choice boards include starting simply, adding audio or video content, and using learning taxonomies.
-
Pause, Reflect, And Adjust: A Strategy For Teacher Well-Being
It took a few days for me to really shake off the effects of that week, and knowing my classroom was making me feel bad was an awful feeling.
-
Teacher Leadership Opportunities You Can Pursue In A Changing World
In a rapidly changing world, schools and districts have a chance to embrace significant and lasting change in ways never before possible.
-
10 Messages Every Teacher Should Send To Parents
Recognizing parents’ challenges can turn things around for a troubled family and transform child’s behavior and performance at school.
-
20 Ways To Bring The Joy Back To Your Classroom
The potential for new learning spaces and dynamics represents an opportunity for a different kind of resonance–and hopefully, joy.
-
6 Common Misunderstandings About Assessment
Using assessment solely for grading and deducting arbitrary points for lateness are among several common misunderstandings about assessment.
-
Practice And Reflect: A Road Map To Becoming A Better Teacher
Improvement in teaching can be reduced to a matter of prioritization, practice, reflection and refinement.
-
Using Small Signs To Encourage Student Participation In A Virtual Classroom
At the most basic level, these could be thumbs up/thumbs sideways/thumbs down. They could also be question marks and exclamation points.
-
15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching
Student-centered teaching is simply the process of teaching with student needs ‘first.’ Here are 15 examples of student-centered teaching.
