A Strategy For Promoting Resilience In Children
Mindset matters. Catch, Challenge, and Change is one of many possible strategies for promoting resilience in children and students.
All Students Are Gifted: Multiple Intelligence Resources For Teachers
We must be ready to applaud students’ multiple intelligences, and somehow allow them to shine through our lessons, building their confidence.
How We Moved Our District Forward Through Data-Based Instruction
How We Moved Our District Forward Through Data-Based Instruction By Tracey Severns, EdD Dr. Tracey Severns is a nationally recognized and award-winning educator with over 20 years of experience. During the 2011-2012 school year, she served as the principal of Mt. Olive Middle School and adjunct professor in the Educational Leadership program at Centenary College…
6 Reasons Standardized Testing Is, At Best, Problematic
Standardization may enable consistent measurement, but it creates a nasty byproduct in the process: a distorted self-image.
Everything I (Thought I) Knew My Second Year Of Teaching
Everything I Knew My Second Year Of Teaching My 2nd year of teaching, my head was swimming. I had just gotten back from an ASCD conference–with a Marzano pre-conference and a heavy dose of Understanding by Design, Tomlinson’s ideas on differentiation, and some sessions on literacy. In spite of all of the great information I…
The 4 Needs Of A Great Teacher
The 4 Needs Of A Great Teacher contributed by Susan Lucille Davis, gettingsmart.com “You always have permission to use whatever tools you need to teach my daughter. Feel free to let her play.” Responding to a standard email request for permission to use a digital tool in my classroom, a parent of one of my…
A Unique Approach To Pre And Post-Assessments
Constructing a pre- and post-assessment system helps you formally track how much progress you make within a given time period.
Why Your Teaching Style Might Be A Bad Match For Your Students
Why Your Teaching Style Might Be A Bad Match For Your Students The relationship between you and your students is complex and dynamic. No matter what grade level you teach, at any moment you could be clarifying content, reinforcing a classroom process, modeling curiosity, or giving a pep talk. This kind of constant change is…
27 Ways To Increase Student Engagement In Learning
Student engagement is often (wrongly) thought of in terms of ‘paying attention’: quietly making eye contact and maybe asking questions.
6 Tips To Integrate Coding In The Classroom
contributed by Jen Mozen, Delivery Principal at Table XI and Organizer of Girl Develop It Chicago With all of the hype surrounding fast-growing tech startups, as well as discussions about improving our education system, teaching kids how to code is top of mind for many people these days. Large scale change is in our future,…
Giving Yourself Permission To Innovate Wildly
Do you allow yourself permission to innovate wildly? Do you work in a place that gives you the freedom to innovate wildly?
A Better Way To Grade All Of Those On-Demand Essays
No matter how progressive you get in your teaching, grading papers–somewhere, somehow–is a part of what you do. Even non-ELA/Literature/Composition teachers are now expected to carry the burden of promoting literacy by helping students consistently write across all content areas. (I’m looking at you, math teachers.) So then, a new, faster, simpler way to grade…
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