When Teaching Makes You Cry
There’s something about teaching that makes you cry. Joy. Feeling overwhelmed. Breakthroughs. Failures. There’s a lot going on in any moment.
Taking A Closer Look At Teacher Effectiveness Ratings: Part 1
Taking A Look At Teacher Effectiveness Ratings: Part 1 by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Can a chronically “failing” school be inhabited by 100% “effective” teachers? That’s the question that has caused Governor Cuomo to take a tough stance against the status quo of education in New York (for reasons known only to the Governor). His office recently…
Putting Technology At The Center Of Learning
Putting Technology At The Center Of Learning by Paul Moss Is your school still in the dark ages of #edtech? Does your school teach students with edtech only through an ICT subject, or does your school have a dedicated edtech agenda, with a strong focus on integration into the curriculum in general? As an English teacher,…
8 Steps To Teacher-Led, Digital PD
Do you want your PD effective, credible with staff, or affordable? Pick two — finding training that fits all 3 is a tremendous challenge.
Creative Teaching Starts With Empowerment
How Empowerment Fosters Creativity by creativist.io Everyone has at least one story where they have witnessed the silencing of creativity. It might be a story where a teacher or a district policy confused joy with disruption. It might be a story where a child whose inner fire was lit by music and movement was forced…
Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum
If we want to prepare students, we need to integrate, combine, and cut. Less is more. What’s most important in your curriculum?
Math In The Real World: 400 Lessons From EconEdLink
400 Lessons On Math In The Real World From EconEdLink by TeachThought Staff NEW YORK, NY (February 19, 2015) Based on many of the same skills and concepts, math is a natural complement to economics and personal finance; and yet, they are rarely taught in conjunction with each other in our nation’s schools. The Council…
Q&A: How Data Can Make You A Better Teacher
Measurable student success should result from a learner demonstrating sufficient knowledge of the content. That can come in a variety of ways.
Opportunities For Creativity In Your Teaching
Quantity matters in creativity. Generate as many ideas as possible, alone and collaboratively. (Ideally alone first, then together.)
3 Ways Personal Learning Networks Are Evolving
The nature of Personal Learning Networks is evolving as the range of tools available to support them increases.
Launching A New Idea In Your School? Some Thoughts For Your Success
How To Launch A New Idea For Your School by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: This is a slightly-edited excerpt from a post by Grant on differentiation and the implementation of policy. Looking for a process to avoid bad implementation of what very well might be a good idea? A new literacy program, curriculum framework, technology,…
Failing Forward: 21 Ideas To Help Students Keep Their Momentum
An example of ‘failing forward’: “Your first two drafts didn’t work so well, huh? What can you take from each of them–what’s salvageable?”
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