50 Ways To Measure Understanding
It’s difficult to teach if it’s unclear what students actually understand–and multiple-choice tests aren’t enough. Here are 50 alternatives.
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Rubric Resources For Teachers
Examples of quality rubrics and scoring guides aren’t as easy to find as you’d think.
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On Teachers And Teaching And The Essential Criticism Of It All
I’d be a little disappointed if the most enduring impression of a student’s time in my classroom was a mental image of me.
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Tone In Teaching: 20 Words That Can Change How Students Think
Tone affects how students see themselves and their role in the learning process. The words you use can have a lasting impact.
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52 Resources For Becoming A Better Teacher
Teachers may spend their days imparting knowledge to others, but that doesn’t mean they should stop learning themselves.
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5 Strategies For Setting SMART Goals In The Classroom
By setting SMART goals, students and teachers can determine action steps to help them achieve their goals.
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12 Ideas For Easing Students Back to School
You are handed a classroom full of students who are excited to be back but not so enthusiastic to study. This is an opportunity!
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10 Team-Building Games For The First Day Of School
Team-Building games for the first day of school include Green Door, I never…, Me too!, Fact or Fiction, and Count to Ten.
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14 Ways To Help Students Build Confidence
‘Believing in students’ isn’t enough–they have to have sufficient knowledge or experience with ideas and skills to ‘do well in school.’
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The Benefits Of Meditation In The Classroom
Benefits of meditation in the classroom include reduced stress, improved concentration, and emotional regulation.
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An Example Of Rigor-Based Differentiation
In this example of rigor-based differentiation, notice how the students’ results are similar, but the process and scaffolding are different.
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What Is An Essential Question?
Essential Questions are thought-provoking and open-ended questions that serve as the core of a lesson or unit in a curriculum.
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Start With You: How To Make Good Teaching More Sustainable
If we truly want a better world, we can’t continue to mirror the worst parts of that world into our classrooms.
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14 Effective Teaching Strategies For Inquiry-Based Learning
One obvious way to promote inquiry learning in your classroom is to design lessons and units that benefit from, promote, or require it.
