6 Qualities of Successful ESL Teachers
Successful ESL teachers understand that relationship between a student and teacher is the most important factor difference for ESL students.
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33 Sources Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Free eBooks
Where Can You Find Free Books Online? eBooks should’ve been a game-changing technology. The idea was simple enough: no longer did you need to travel to the library to wade through rows and stacks and floors and buildings and card catalogs only to wag home only as much as you could carry. Or risk spending…
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Digital Media Can Change The Tone Of Learning
Digital Media Can Change Learning by TeachThought Staff Digital media is really more powerful than we’re giving it credit for. And it already gets a lot of credit. While “social” media gets all the praise, social media is itself digital, with the digital versions of films, music, magazines, images, and other stuff holding inherent characteristics that…
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The Right & Wrong Way To Use Technology For Learning
Technology is a tool, not a learning outcome. Most teachers know this but thwe clarifying examples might be useful.
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A Strategy For Promoting Resilience In Children
Mindset matters. Catch, Challenge, and Change is one of many possible strategies for promoting resilience in children and students.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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….
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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…
