How To Use IXL: 8 Tips For Using The K-12 Adaptive Learning Platform
IXL is a personalized learning platform used by over 400,000 teachers worldwide. Here are 8 ways to use IXL in the classroom.
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Becoming Invisible In My Classroom
The teacher isn’t at the front of the room talking. They are everywhere, interacting with students and challenging them to keep pushing.
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How To ‘Pull’ Deeper Learning Through PBL
Not all PBL need be complex in content, process, or product; the action of intentional design for deeper learning should be constant.
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Why We Should Make It Easier–Not Harder–To Be A Teacher
If we’re asking teachers to help young people be the best they can be, shouldn’t we clear as many obstacles as possible?
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12 Ways To Make YouTube Safer For Children
YouTube offers effortless consumption of millions of videos. In the unsupervised hands of children, this presents a challenge.
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How Twitter Can Help Students Write Better Thesis Statements
Tweets are limited to 280 characters–plenty for a well-written sentence. Ask students to tweet their thesis statements in one sentence.
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The Assimilation vs Accommodation Of Knowledge
Piaget was interested in how children organize data, settling on 2 fundamental responses stimuli: assimilation & accommodation of knowledge.
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10 Ways Traditional Classrooms Punish Mistakes In Learning
By using uniform standards and assessment forms, our education system often punishes errors, rather than rewarding risk-taking.
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The Use Of Advanced Technology To Support Education
The impact of advanced technology on education has been most noticeably felt at the collegiate level, particularly in STEM-related fields.
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What’s The Best Teaching Advice You’ve Ever Gotten?
This week’s topic is simple enough: What’s the best teaching advice you’ve ever gotten? Sound off in the comments and let us know.
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5 Tips For Helping Troubled Students Succeed
5 Tips For Helping Troubled Students Succeed contributed by Anne Davis An educator’s job is to ensure that each of their students gets the best possible learning experience. It is also their responsibility to ensure that their students are evolving and performing to the best of their abilities academically. In order to be successful at…
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Experiential Learning Via K-12 Field Trips
Field trips help to reinforce what students are learning in the classroom and peak their interests in education.
