Integrated Ideas To Teach Financial Literacy
What if you tied financial literacy to your content area through a PBL unit about design, social media or the effects of World War II?
10 Mind Mapping Strategies For Teachers
What Are The Best Mind Mapping Strategies For Teachers? by Andrea Leyden, examtime.com The adoption of Mind Maps in teaching has grown recently due to the benefits of using Mind Maps to learn and the availability of free online mind mapping software. Teachers have recognized the value of using Mind Maps to engage students, encourage…
5 Tips For Managing Intergenerational Communication
What Are The Best Ways To Manage Intergenerational Communication? It never occurred to us that phone calls could be considered an “invasion of privacy.” Even after years of telemarketers punishing our telephones at the absolute worst times, the phone has been the way you communicate with someone in any enduring or substantive way. But every…
Boring Teachers & How We All Can Respond
If we ever asked a large amount of students to give one word to describe school, I think that about 90% of them would simply say: boring.
A 6-Step Process For Gamifying Your Classroom
Rather than “gamifying” a unit, Mia MacMeekin’s graphic promotes building a unit centered around a game and featuring game-like mechanics.
8 Videos To Motivate Students In And Out Of The Classroom
These are some of the best motivational videos for students to help with mindset and perspective–seeing the commonality in human experience.
A Free Resource For Teaching With And Through The Arts
A Free Resource For Teaching With The Arts From a press release from The Music Center in Los Angeles: In a move designed to support arts education in schools, The Music Center today announced the launch of a free online arts curriculum, Artsource®: The Music Center’s Study Guide to the Performing Arts, an easily accessible…
Why You Teach: Developing A Teacher Mission Statement
Why You Teach: Developing A Teacher Mission Statement by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Why do you teach? I am not asking this question in the sense often assumed, i.e. why do you personally want to teach? That kind of egocentric stuff never appeals to me. I am not interested in a teacher’s account of personal motive…
Ego & The Critical Role Of Feedback In The Learning Process
Ego & The Critical Role Of Feedback In The Learning Process by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher & Learnist Evangelist “You can’t do that.” It was harsh for me to hear. “No, that’s no good.” There it was again. Coming from the world of education, I was used to feedback that was kind and almost…
The Shift From Teaching Content To Teaching Learning
It is the continual addressing of essential questions that moves us from naïve and okay teachers to skilled professionals teaching learning.
5 Brain-Based Teaching Strategies For Student Engagement
Brain-based teaching strategies include simply predicting and responding, which require the brain to actually engage.
Would You Want Your Child In This Exquisitely-Managed Classroom?
The First Day Of School In A 9th Grade Classroom That Runs Like Clockwork: A Video Of Classroom Management We don’t talk much about classroom management here at TeachThought. (Well, sometimes we do.) First and foremost, our mission is to both think about and enable better ways of learning in highly-connected, 21st century society: critical thinking,…
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