Teach Like Minecraft: 5 Strategies To Craft Creative Students by Terry Heick At this point, some of you are probably sick of hearing about Minecraft. It has gone from game to phenomenon, selling bajillions of copies and crowding the mindscape…

A Teacher’s Guide To Performance Assessment by Tom Vander Ark first appeared on gettingsmart.com A Teacher’s Guide To Performance Assessment by Tom Vander Ark In the narrowest sense, according to ETS, performance assessment is “A test in which the test taker actually demonstrates the…

Making Professional Development A Habit contributred by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher The final post in a 6 part, “Better PD” series. See parts 1-5: PD Sucks. Is Edcamp the Solution?, Pairing Teachers for Better Professional Development, Hacking Your Classroom, Moving The Conversation From Bullying…

10 Tips For A Smarter iPad-Based Classroom by Heather Wolpert-Gawron, author of Writing Behind Every Door: Teaching Common Core Writing in the Subject Areas  When I first raised my hand to pilot my middle school’s first 1:1 classroom, I knew it…

Alphablocks: 26 Strategies For Always-On Learning Many learning strategies come naturally. Stopping when you’re confused. Asking questions. Clarifying your understanding. Creating analogies (Oh, so it’s like when…) or paraphrasing. Many of these learning strategies can be applied to reading, which…

5 Resolutions To Modernize Your Teaching In 2014 by Jennifer Rita Nichols, Teacher When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, we all hear about the typical weight/health/finance related promises we make to ourselves – but why not use this yearly…