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…
“If that’s where they are, it’s where I must be, too.” contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Smartphone Owner And User Of Analog Clocks Analog clocks, cursive, Roman numerals, map reading. Memorizing times tables, dates, and battles. These skills were part of my K-12 curricula. They may soon go the way of quills and inkwells in favor of…
6 Tongue-In-Cheek Tips For Helicopter Parents That Help Too Much by Anonymous Practicing Teacher That Cares We’ve all been there. We’ve worked a long grueling day only to come home and find out our child has a project due the next day. We’ve argued and threatened punishment over said project. We’ve been too tired to…
While it will be impossible to prevent it altogether, there are ways to prevent cyberbullying–and strategies to respond when it does.
If we want to prepare students, we need to integrate, combine, and cut. Less is more. What’s most important in your curriculum?
What is problem-based learning? An approach to learning where the identification, analysis, and solving of problems drives student learning.
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…
Teachers are using technology to teach reading, arguing that interactive video games provide the skills that students need to be able to read.
Measurable student success should result from a learner demonstrating sufficient knowledge of the content. That can come in a variety of ways.
Quantity matters in creativity. Generate as many ideas as possible, alone and collaboratively. (Ideally alone first, then together.)
The nature of Personal Learning Networks is evolving as the range of tools available to support them increases.
Teachers can use Google Chrome extensions for almost anything–from finding related resources to sending links to colleagues.
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