6 Common Misunderstandings About Assessment
Using assessment solely for grading and deducting arbitrary points for lateness are among several common misunderstandings about assessment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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50 Ways To Challenge Yourself As A Teacher
If for some reason you don’t already find teaching challenging enough, here are 50 (more) ways to challenge yourself as a teacher.
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How To Support Truant Students
How can you help students who don’t come to school? With a few shifts in thinking, while a challenge, there are ways to help truant students.
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How To Get Parents Meaningfully Involved In Your School
Getting parents involved in school leads to improved academic outcomes for students and the potential for a healthier community.
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How To Deal With A Difficult Parent
In all of my years of teaching, I can count on one hand the number of ‘difficult parents’ I had to face. But when I did, it was extremely challenging.
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Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking
It would make sense that as tech becomes more integrated, accessible, and smarter, those connections will deepen as our priorities change.
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Shifting Your Assessments To Grow Higher-Level Thinking
Since students typically perform better on low-level thinking items, teachers may believe students understand more deeply than they actually do.
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Teaching Empathy In The Classroom: A Quick-Guide
Teaching empathy in the classroom? Start a Random Acts of Kindness project so students can support a classmate, or someone in their community.
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6 Immediate Strategies For Improving Teacher Morale
Rediscovering the human elements of teaching and learning is among the most powerful strategies for improving teacher morale.
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When Schools Think More About Data Than Understanding
Teaching is easy. Teaching well is very, very hard to do day in and day out, especially in the schools that need it most.
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10 Simple Icebreakers For Kids: Elementary Students Edition
One of the most simple icebreakers for kids is asking them to improve something–this encourages open-ended thinking and creativity.
