Volunteering In My Wife’s Classroom Opened My Eyes by Brent Wooten His wife is a longtime teacher, but commentator Bret Wooten says it was the time he spent volunteering in her classroom that opened his eyes to her world. The other day my 7-year-old daughter Joslyn triggered a memory when she asked me: “Why…
The HBM focuses on effective ways to influence student perception re: sex ed & increases their odds of making positive sexual health choices.
All but two of the following courses for teachers are 5 hours or less, and can supplement your reading and school-based PD usefully.
Characteristics of quality learning feedback: being goal-referenced, transparent, actionable, user-friendly, timely, ongoing, and consistent.
I. Education is both industrial and fundamental; it is the mutual product of both engineering and affection.
If you’re a teacher and you’re in any way digital, there are some strategies you might consider to lubricate the interaction between the two.
Having a solid base in theory makes sense but the questions he was getting–“Why did you become a teacher?”–seemed only vaguely useful.
One of Grant Wiggins’ lasting lessons is that in order to transfer their learning, students need to understand “big ideas.”
“What’s My Name, Fool?” Why You Must Remember Your Students Now! by Dawn Casey-Rowe Ernie Terrell didn’t get Muhammad Ali’s name right. Terrell repeatedly called Ali by his former name, Cassius Clay, in the days leading up to their 1967 heavyweight fight. He even sang a song using Ali’s birth name on Hollywood Squares, something that…
The need to belong, the desire to be understood, and the instinct to understand are universal human emotions that mean everything.
As with any instructional tool, ed tech is critical to increasing rigor in the classroom. Here are 5 ways technology can be used to do so.
8 Reasons Why Students Should Still Write Research Papers by Dorothy Mikuska There are plenty of reasons why the research paper is not assigned. They pretty much boil down to: perceived irrelevance of the assignment in light of modern publishing and technology widespread plagiarism teachers buried alive grading 10-page papers from 150 students (that’s 1500 pages…
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