9 Questions To Reflect Critically On Your Own Teaching
Do I allow the students to ‘find’ the answers to questions on their own? How tightly aligned is the learning activity and objective?
Shifting Teaching From What They Might Become To Who They Are Today
I shifted my focus from what my students might ‘become’ in the future to who they are and what they need today.
Is Great Teaching Sustainable?
Good teaching is addicting–a kind of magic. It’s also unsustainable by the standards we’ve created for schools and teachers.
Don’t Teach Beliefs. Instead, Help Students Understand Where They Come From
The objective should be to facilitate a discussion that results in a more comprehensive understanding of both sides of controversial topics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
6 Common Misunderstandings About Assessment
One misunderstanding about assessment of learning? That it’s a one-way communication: the teacher provides feedback and students listen.
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.
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.
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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