What Are The Best Ways To Improve Retention In Your Students? by TeachThought Staff How you can help students retain what they learn? What sort of teaching strategies, curriculum mapping techniques, or other changes can you use to help them remember and apply information? Most broadly, this is a matter of understanding and transfer. The…
In this infographic, Mia MacMeekin offers 27 ways to make your next staff meeting more interesting—and engaging—for teachers.
Some ways to promote intrinsic motivation in students your classroom include using inquiry and lessons that require their creativity.
Cultivate more teamwork and less group work by teaching students how to work together instead of as individuals near each other.
Innovative thinking is one of those ideas in education that is often espoused, but not measured, reported on, trained around, or celebrated.
The purpose of assessing background knowledge is not to get everyone on the “same page,” but to make what a student knows visible.
How Can You Respond When Students Don’t Pay Attention? Our initial reaction when seeing the following infographic from Mia MacMeekin was to think about instructional design rather than classroom management. That is, work backwards from a student-centered, inquiry-based, self-directed, and inherently personalized learning model where students, while plugged in to relevant digital and physical communities and working…
Improving the connection between school and home could yield a staggering improvement in both academic and “whole child” progress.
Student engagement is often (wrongly) thought of in terms of ‘paying attention’: quietly making eye contact and maybe asking questions.
Whether you’re using data to personalize learning or refine curriculum, the ability to easily check for understanding is critical to your teaching.
Here are 27 engaging, fun, and creative ways to greet your students, based on an infographic by Mia MacMeekin.
How can you create a brain-friendly classroom? By reducing stress, creating positive associations, and promoting feedback loops.
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