In our well-intended insistence to bring everyone up to “proficiency” via academic “standards,” there is also an automatic reductionism that occurs, whereby all of the known universe is distilled into a script of need to know. While the logic seems sounds–how can we know we’re educating students if we don’t know where the learning should begin or…
Choosing To Become A Special Education Editor’s Note: This is a sponsored post from online teacher certification programs at St. Joseph’s Online University Program Special education teachers, when asked, often state that getting their special education degree to work in this field is a personal calling as much as it is their career. Many aspiring special education…
Fear & Mourning in the Age of Digital Education by Susan Lucille Davis was originally published on Getting Smart. Recently, with the full support of my administration, I hoped to introduce a number of digital initiatives for my middle-grades students. In particular, I hoped to upgrade the teaching of language arts at my school to include…
Here are 20 considerations for challenging old, limited notions of learning spaces in order to move students into a 21st century economy.
Is your classroom ‘ready’ for iPads? What are the characteristics of a classroom or curriculum that can leverage the iPad’s features?
“The Flipped Classroom Turns Around an At-Risk, Failing School” by Greg Green, Principal at Clintondale High School, was originally published on Getting Smart. As a principal of Clintondale High School, I’ve witnessed firsthand the struggles that a school must endure to educate at-risk students. Many of the students at Clintondale are faced with obstacles that hinder their education:…
Web curators are one of my favorite categories of online tools. These tools allow you to collect online resources and put them into meaningful groups which you can then share with others. These are great tools for teachers and students as they allow teachers to remix their curriculums to include web-based resources. They also allow students to…
The fundamentals that define a great teacher don’t differ much whether classes are taught in the online setting or off, but there are certain things that need greater emphasis and gain greater importance when a teacher is working with students who aren’t in a traditional classroom setting. Knowing how to highlight these things to help…
How Transfer Impacts What We Think Students Understand Preface: In collaboration with Grant Wiggins of Understanding by Design and Authentic Education, TeachThought will be bringing you Grant’s industry-leading expertise on understanding, learning frameworks, and curriculum planning. This article originally appeared on Grant’s personal blog. There is some understandable confusion about the goal of transfer. When we…
Whether or not video games are truly art is a silly debate that keeps popping up everywhere–usually by those that continue to browbeat gaming based on games that are too (insert adjective here) for their tastes. For me, it’s difficult to not think of them as art–and as a woefully under-developed medium to promote interaction,…
From removing barriers to learning, to creating an environment where it’s safe to take risks here’s what you owe to your students.
If you’re a college student looking to supplement your science studies, these apps are some of the best for learning, sharing & researching.
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