Teaching
Teaching: The art & science of helping people learn
5 Out-Of-The Box Assessment Strategies Every Teacher Should Know
Students need access to lower-level information to then use in the higher-level thinking that requires them to synthesize disparate facts and perspectives.
18 Inconvenient Truths About Assessment Of Learning
It's an extraordinary amount of work to design precise and personalized assessments that illuminate pathways forward for individual students.
How The Lesson Study Approach Can Improve Your Teaching
Lesson study is not about discovering the one right way to teach a lesson but about building knowledge of many teaching models and strategies.
The Selflessness Of Pedagogy: What Every Teacher Gives
The 'giving' of yourself implies that you give your whole self to the act of teaching--that you merge your 'self' and your pedagogy.
4 Strategies To Recharge Your Teaching
I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated in the classroom, less tolerant, less friendly, and worst of all, sarcastic. I was utterly exhausted.
20 Strategies To Get The Best Work From Your Students
To get the best work from a student, they need to create their own standards for quality academic work--ideally alongside you, as a teacher.
How To Add Rigor To Anything
In rigorous tasks, learners will often need to synthesize data, positions, or theories from multiple sources or perspectives.
5 Challenges We Overcame Moving To A Flipped Staff Meeting
One of the best aspects of being able to flip meetings is giving freedom, choice, and leadership opportunities to the teachers themselves.
Why Teachers Need One Another
Who gets to say you're doing a good job as a teacher? When you go to bed at night, whose approval are you really looking for?
How Single-Point Rubrics Can Improve The Quality Of Student Work
With single-point rubrics, the focus is on providing evidence of meeting, exceeding, or falling short of the quality you're looking for.
How To Make A Movie Poster: A Template For Students
The benefit of creating movie posters in the classroom is that they require the students to concisely 'capture' a film in order to persuade others.
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 when interacting with students can have a lasting impact.
The Definition Of Peer Teaching: A Sampling Of Existing Research
Peer teaching occurs when students, by design, teach other students.
6 Simple Ways To Reduce Student Stress In The Classroom
How do you make your students feel? Research is clear that the answer to this question can have a profound effect on the learning that occurs within your class or...
The Two Minds Of An Educator
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
8 Ways To Create A Brain-Friendly Classroom
How can you create a classroom that works in a way the brain 'likes' to learn?
Developing Confident Students Using Gradual Release Of Responsibility
To use the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, students need to see others using it and who better to model it but you?
8 Ways To Make Math More Fun For Students
Want to make math more fun for students? Support them by giving them space to ask questions and learn through play.
