10 Specific Ideas To Gamify Your Classroom
Gamify your classroom with challenges, feedback, levels, creativity, and rewards to motivate students to learn, and master concepts.
A Simple, Open-Ended Assignment: Explain When You’re Creative
Explain When You’re Creative by Danielle Shanley, Director of Curriculum & Instruction for the New Milford Public Schools Below is an assignment recently given to a 10th grade classroom. The assignment was inspired by Ken Robinson’s The Element. As you may remember, Ken Robinson defines The Element in the first book you read earlier this…
32 Tips For Building Better Relationships With Students
From asking questions to empowering students to expressing affection, building better relationships starts with these suggestions.
‘Information Flow’ As A Litmus Test For Quality Teaching
Just as with gardening, preparing the soil takes time. But once we get past that, students begin to blossom and initiate their own learning.
27 Characteristics Of Authentic Assessment
An authentic assessment is meant to focus on the impact of one’s work in real or realistic contexts.
25 Things Successful Teachers Do Differently
What do successful teachers do? It turns out, quite a bit–and it begins and ends with connecting with students.
How To Get Along With Teachers Who Think Differently Than You
One would think that as long as both teachers teach to those ‘same standards,’ all would be well, but it’s not always that’s simple.
3 Simple Ways To Create A More Positive Classroom Atmosphere
Here are two questions to think about as you reflect on your daily instruction.
When students enter your room, are they happy to be here?
When they leave, are they smiling and feeling positive about their experience?
27 Ways To Promote Intrinsic Motivation In The Classroom
Some ways to promote intrinsic motivation in students your classroom include using inquiry and lessons that require their creativity.
What Is Differentiated Instruction? A Definition For Teachers
Differentiation means adapting content, process, or product according to a student’s readiness, interest, and learning profile.
How To Burn Yourself Out As A Teacher
If you’re increasingly tired, prone to Sunday night blues, and your July excitement is replaced by dread, teacher burnout could be why.
A Giant List Of Really Good Essential Questions
Essential questions are ‘essential’ in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries.
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