What A 4 Year-Old’s Bucket List Looks Like
What’s on your bucket list? Publishing a book? Seeing your child’s wedding? Starting your own school? How about drinking clean water?
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.
The Problematic Connotation Of Video Games
Video games’ time in the public spotlight is usually brief, and tangled with discussions on children, violence, and Constitutional rights.
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.
12 Of The Best Financial Literacy Apps & Resources For Kids
Learn how to save, understand, monitor, and invest with 12 of the best financial literacy apps and resources for students.
24 Unique Maker Education Resources For Teaching & Learning
What Are Some Unique Maker Education Resources For Teaching & Learning? by Mike Acedo 1. http://makezine.com/ Makezine.com is a major hub for the maker’s movement, providing amateur makers and educators with a plethora of information, resources, and project ideas to implement for themselves, or in their classrooms. 2. http://www.raspberrypi.org/This UK based tech company seeks to provide children…
41 Important Neuroscience Terms For Teachers
Few educators need a deep grasp of neurology, but a working knowledge of the more common neuroscience terms for teachers could be useful.
Student-Led Writing: How & Why I Let Students Lead The Writing Process
Student-Led Writing: How & Why I Let Students Lead The Writing Process by Jane Healey, Ph. D Recently, I threw out old curriculum for the book, Frankenstein, and I designed a unit based on strategies gleaned from articles and posts about flipping classrooms, encouraging students to own their learning, and inquiry-based education. A totally new approach…
13 Tools To Make Your Classroom More Fun
A collection of teacher-recommended tools to make learning fun, engaging, and interactive in your classroom.
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…
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