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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
