All Students Are Gifted: Multiple Intelligence Resources For Teachers
We must be ready to applaud students’ multiple intelligences, and somehow allow them to shine through our lessons, building their confidence.
12 Timeless Project-Based Learning Resources
From YouTube to Edutopia–and of course, TeachThought–this post includes 12 timeless project-based learning resources for the classroom.
Six Steps to Developing Your Own 21st Century Educational Technology
We have an opportunity to truly customize and build our classrooms in a manner that can help us achieve our goals and reach our students.
6 Reasons Standardized Testing Is, At Best, Problematic
Standardization may enable consistent measurement, but it creates a nasty byproduct in the process: a distorted self-image.
Everything I (Thought I) Knew My Second Year Of Teaching
Everything I Knew My Second Year Of Teaching My 2nd year of teaching, my head was swimming. I had just gotten back from an ASCD conference–with a Marzano pre-conference and a heavy dose of Understanding by Design, Tomlinson’s ideas on differentiation, and some sessions on literacy. In spite of all of the great information I…
9 Oxymorons In 21st Century Learning
9 Oxymorons In 21st Century Learning Vernacular As 21st century teachers, we have to put up with a lot. Constantly changing expectations. Move academic targets. Constant waves of new technology. Changing sources of professional development. It certainly keeps one day from being the same as the next, but it also creates the opportunity for us to contradict ourselves….
3 Common Barriers To Success In A Flipped Classroom Model
What Are The Most Common Barriers To Success In A Flipped Classroom Model? by Saqib Hussain, Language Teacher In The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Higher Education at the Crossroads (April 15th, 2013), one of the guests, Richard DeMillo, referred to the Benjamin Bloom’s “Two-sigma problem,” claiming that with the move from the “sage on stage” model to…
47 Core Teacher Apps: A Visual Library Of Apps For Teachers
A Visual Library Of Core Teacher Apps Using the iPad in a 1:1 environment requires not only some ground rules, but a bit of common language. Since every student has their own iPad, and teachers likely do as well, this common tool necessitates some universal understanding: What do we mean by “on-task”? Same screen? Same…
New York Teacher Fai Walker Inspires Through Dedication To Learning
Fai Walker, executive director of Return to Wholeness LLC, is the heart and soul of sustainability & PBL in some of NYC’s public schools.
A Simple Way To Clarify Personalized Learning
This post seeks to clarify personalized learning, a term that’s becoming more common as education becomes more ambitious and self-aware.
Five Tips To Support Storytelling In The 21st Century
by Becky Fisher Hi, it’s nice to meet you! My name is Becky and I work in education technology. I’m from New York and I live in San Francisco. I used to teach elementary school music. And this is not an interesting story; you don’t want to keep reading. But in an era of social…
The 4 Needs Of A Great Teacher
The 4 Needs Of A Great Teacher contributed by Susan Lucille Davis, gettingsmart.com “You always have permission to use whatever tools you need to teach my daughter. Feel free to let her play.” Responding to a standard email request for permission to use a digital tool in my classroom, a parent of one of my…
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