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…
How To Adapt A Social Learning Strategy Framework For Education Social learning strategies are, generally speaking, the stuff of businesses and brands. The word “learning” in the above phrasing is misleading, usually referring to how a business can “learn” what does and doesn’t work in regards to their social media and community strategies. It was…
Edutopia Continues Their Leadership, Launches New Research Arm Our friends at Edutopia, long-time proponents of project-based learning, purveyors of schools that work, and leaders in forward-thinking in education, are at it again. Their latest idea is GLEF Research, a new “branch” of their progressive education tree designed to strengthen the relationship between research and emerging trends in…
Understanding the difference between inference and prediction is one of classic challenges in literacy instruction.
It is the continual addressing of essential questions that moves us from naïve and okay teachers to skilled professionals teaching learning.
Brain-based teaching strategies include simply predicting and responding, which require the brain to actually engage.
The First Day Of School In A 9th Grade Classroom That Runs Like Clockwork: A Video Of Classroom Management We don’t talk much about classroom management here at TeachThought. (Well, sometimes we do.) First and foremost, our mission is to both think about and enable better ways of learning in highly-connected, 21st century society: critical thinking,…
Mashing Genius Hour With Project-Based Learning contributed by Dawn-Casey Rowe, Social Studies Teacher “Miss, it’s reading period,” one student reminded me. That’s the one period a week we all read together. This week, though, we’re a bit behind. “Well,” I said, we have to finish this section, and if we have reading period today, we…
St Oliver Plunkett Primary School has shared two images that can help you populate your iPad with apps that support inquiry-based learning.
contributed by Sharon Kebschull Barrett Imagine working in a school where all teachers have the chance to improve their craft and be rewarded for getting better, working in a school with genuinely useful professional development that flows naturally through your workday. Imagine schools that let teachers focus on their strengths—whether specific subjects in elementary schools or…
After researching, this stage of the inquiry process is centered around students clarifying both their own thinking.
How To Swear Like Shakespeare: A Grand Taxonomy Of The Bard’s Choice Words For those literature teachers stuck in 2013 who need an edge on a generation of students increasingly speaking in an odd combination of text-speak and hip-hop, there is the following infographic from charleychartwell.com. You will not find emaciated phrases such as awesome,…