How To Learn Through Play: A Spectrum For Teachers
From genius hour to scripted curriculum, this model acts as a framework to illustrate how to teach through play.
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How A Simple Checklist Can Improve Learning
Used effectively, checklists can improve learning by helping students develop awareness processes, goals, and priorities.
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The Listening Teacher: Getting Feedback From Your Students
The Listening Teacher: Getting Feedback From Students contributed by Jane Healey, A Teacher Trying Harder To Listen “The single most important thing I learned in this class is that I don’t have to have tons of homework to learn a lot.” Mid-year or more frequently, I ask students to complete an evaluation form. I craft…
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10 Strategies For Teaching For Change
A teacher for change doesn’t focus on what resources they don’t have, but on what they do.
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Minecraft in Education: What Teachers Can Learn From Minecraft
Minecraft in Education: What Minecraft Can Teach You About Pedagogy by TeachThought Staff Minecraft is a simple, clumsy-looking little game full of blocky graphics and unclear terms of play. It is essentially a giant sandbox of digital legos that players can do with what they wish–tear stuff down, dig holes, or build dizzying towers of…
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15 Activities For Substitute Teachers
Being a substitute teacher is a challenge. From team-building games to 20 questions, here are 15 activities for substitue teachers.
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The Challenges Of Data-Based Teaching
How can you use data to improve your teaching? If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind.
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Why Your Students Aren’t Learning: 10 Performance Disruptors
Poor responses to data or simply not having enough time to plan are two possible reasons your students are struggling.
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10 Better Sources Of Free Curriculum For Teachers
Responsibilities of teaching can keep you quite busy, so for those with limited time, here are the top free curriculum to get you started.
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The Definition Of 5 Different Types Of Teaching
John Hattie’s body of work suggests that surface learning is the foundation for deeper learning, transfer learning is crucial for success in the real world, and deeper learning is facilitated through inquiry teaching.
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What Every Teacher Needs
While schools should center children in purpose, tone, structure, function, etc., what about teachers? What do they need?
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Dear Parents: Here’s What You Should Know About Letter Grades
Letter grades don’t mean what you think they mean. In fact, they can fail to communicate important truths about your child’s learning.
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5 Ways To Differentiate Instruction
There are many ways to differentiate instruction, from flexible grouping to multiple assessments and improving student choice.
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Better Teacher Professional Development: Pairing Teachers
Pairing Teachers To Improve Professional Development contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher Professional development isn’t something that many teachers look forward to. By thinking about activities that engage teachers and bring motivation back into professional learning, schools make leaps and bounds in building a community that uses its own expertise to become stronger and…
