How To Start Your Own Blog: A Step-By-Step Guide For Teachers
One of the best education philosophies is collegiality. Without cooperation, teachers can’t remain vibrant members of a class community.
10 Pros And Cons Of A Flipped Classroom
There are many pros and cons of a flipped classroom, a hands-on approach to improving achievement and involving students in their education.
Hacking Your Classroom: Getting Around Blocks & Bans
Getting Around Blocks & Bans: Hacking Your Classroom contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher & Learnist Evangelist In this PD series, we address the things teachers most want and need for professional development. Professional development is an important topic–something every educator needs. However, most agree it often misses the mark. However relaxing it might be…
How My Students And I Make Meaning Together: An Actual Unit Outline
How My Students And I Make Meaning Together: An Actual Unit Outline by Jane Healey, Ph.D. In A Student-Led, Flipped, Inquiry-Based Learning Classroom Doing Authentic Work, I listed my favorite, simple approach to classroom material: Observe Wonder Investigate Conclude The response was heartening, and I was asked about an example. I currently teach Sophomore Core English…
How To Help Your Students Embrace Failure Through Game-Based Learning
Help Your Students Embrace Failure Through Game-Based Learning contributed by Justin W. Marquis, Ph.D. Whether our students fear the dark, monsters, heights, some other imagined horror, or something more real such as family troubles or bullying, everyone is afraid of something. For students in our schools those fears probably include something that is an inherent…
The Teacher Bill Of Rights
The Teacher Bill Of Rights Leave it to the aptly named and solidarity-sporting weareteachers.org to develop the Teacher Bill of Rights. Depending on who you talk to, teachers are either what’s wrong with education… Public school teachers. Public menaces! They watch as children are injured. http://t.co/3R6e7ZqRNY #education #publicschool — Steven David Horwich (@homeschoolcurr) November…
So? So What? What Now? How To Keep The Learning Going
How To Keep The Learning Going by Terry Heick In 2014, sandbox video games have changed gaming more than a little. Players can now define their own terms for success, and the evolution of certain gamification elements makes this more than a fantasy in the minds of the players. There really are multiple measures of…
Finding Your Purpose As A Teacher
What exactly do your students want or need? How will you need to “package” and deliver this gift you feel supremely qualified to teach?
Digital Project-Based Learning: 7 Tools for Student Collaboration
Seven Tools For Student Collaboration In Digital PBL by Rob Sabo Education today often requires extensive collaboration between students and faculty. Team assignments are an excellent way to improve learning and help students develop the communication tools necessary to thrive in the workplace. Choosing the right tools for small group collaboration is crucial for facilitating…
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?
7 Essential Ingredients Of Project-Based Learning
Student voice and choice, publishing, and a driving question are some of the essential ingredients of project-based learning.
On Measuring Creativity & Other Abstractions
6 Questions On Measuring Creativity & Other Abstractions by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Oh, you can’t measure that… I hear this in almost every conversation about assessment of long-term educational goals. “Critical and creative thinking – oh, you can’t measurethat.” Why are educators so quick to say things like this? On its face the claim is a…
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