What I Tell Students When They Say They Don’t Like To Read
Some readers may think they dislike the process of reading but everyone loves ideas–and reading is a wonderful strategy to find them.
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Critical Thinking Is A Mindset
Critical thinking is certainly a ‘skill’ but when possessed as a mindset–a playful and humble willingness–it shifts from a labor to an art.
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Is Great Teaching Sustainable?
Good teaching is addicting–a kind of magic. It’s also unsustainable by the standards we’ve created for schools and teachers.
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Online Education And eLearning Expected To Reach $350 Billion By 2025
Online education and eLearning are learning based on use of internet-based digital materials. By 2025, it’s expected to be worth $350 billion.
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25 Things Tests Can’t Measure In Students
Humility, curiosity, creativity, resilience, compassion, and 20 other things that tests can’t measure in students.
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Help Students Understand Where They Come From
In helping students understand empathy, teachers give award learners the influence they have always held, but maybe didn’t realize.
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24 Of The Best Digital Tools To Build Vocabulary
The following digital tools to build vocabulary include reference tools, word clouds, games and review, word walls, and virtual field trips.
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Why Being Wrong Is Actually A Good Thing
This is first about how the process of becoming wrong—the sweeping of the arms out in front of you as you search—helps you become right.
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An Example Of Exponential Growth For Students
A vampire has to feed on a human every month. How many months would it take for the entire population of the planet to become vampires?
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Critical Literacy: How To Encourage Students To Change Their World
Educating students doesn’t have to take the form of a one-sided lecture or reading. In fact, it works better if it doesn’t.
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16 Strategies For Using Digital Choice Boards In The Classroom
Strategies for creating digital choice boards include starting simply, adding audio or video content, and using learning taxonomies.
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Pause, Reflect, And Adjust: A Strategy For Teacher Well-Being
It took a few days for me to really shake off the effects of that week, and knowing my classroom was making me feel bad was an awful feeling.
