Teaching Posts
How To Use Flexible Grouping In The Classroom
Having students interact with one or more peers can build community, increase engagement, and make learning more active.
When Students Break The Rules, Emphasize The Effect On…
Emphasizing how one student can impact another is not only useful for modifying behavior, but can create a learning community.
How To Design A Wikipedia Writing & Research Assignment
The idea of actually using Wikipedia to explicitly teach research for an entire unit is less common than its use for…
A Teacher Planning Model For Multiple Intelligences
How can I use one student’s tendencies and ‘intelligences’ to support them in developing other less-developed areas?
What Your Social Media Habits Say About Your Teaching…
What Do Your Social Media Habits Reveal About Your Teaching Style? You’re a lurker—love social media, but more the media than the social, so…
Improving Discipline In High School By Gamifying Good Behavior
By rewarding students for good behavior, Kentucky’s Valley High School is attempting to transform its culture and engage students.
Understanding: The Problem With Breaking The Whole Into Parts
Mastery of a complex whole requires designing backward from the complex whole and the interesting questions related to it.
What Works In Education And How Do We Know?
What works in education and how do we know? What do we know an idea is ‘good’? Letter grades? Test performance? Graduation Rates?
