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.
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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…
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13 Tools To Make Your Classroom More Fun
A collection of teacher-recommended tools to make learning fun, engaging, and interactive in your classroom.
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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.
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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…
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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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Making Twitter A Mainstream Tool For School Improvement
How To Make Twitter A Mainstream Tool For School Improvement by Terry Heick, Using twitter as a learning tool doesn’t require much imagination. Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows people to share and skim a large quantity of ideas in a short period of time. Students can connect with experts, socialize thinking, participate in…
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Getting Students To Stop Learning
Getting Students To Stop Learning And Start Thinking by TeachThought Staff Jacob Barnett, a 12 year-old that’s been diagnosed with Autism, has some simple advice for you: Instead of being a student of that field, be the field. In the 17 minute video below, in his own charming way he describes multiple historical events, from…
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How Virtual Classrooms Can Promote 1-1 Student Conferencing
Conferences provide a forum for offering help & building confidence — how can teachers use them to support students in virtual classrooms?
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Establishing A Twitter Routine In Your Classroom
Start with the idea of why a teacher should tweet with students (literacy, citizenship, etc.), then move to the idea of a ‘routine.’
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50 Of The Smartest Kids In The World: A Small Sample Of Many
At age 10, Gabriel worked on T-cell receptor research and studied synthetic biology for undergraduate college students at MIT.
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The Digital Public Library Of America: Promoting Literacy & Cultural Preservation
Do you have fond memories of going to your local library to do research on a school assignment? Or just to pass the time, browsing through old books, photo archives and other fascinating materials? You can explore similar (or in some cases, the very same) archives online without leaving the house, thanks to the Digital…
