The First 6 Weeks: Strategies For Getting To Know Your Students
The better we know our students, and the more they know and trust that we know them, the more invested they become in their learning.
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6 Questions About John Hattie’s Meta-analyses: The Big Picture Of Data
What if a teaching strategy improves test scores but stifles creativity and ambition? Is that still a ‘win’?
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15 Of The Best Apps For Improved Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is a matter of decoding, reading speed, and thinking about the text, all of which can improve with tiered practice.
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A Teacher Writes A Brutally Honest Letter To Parents & Politicians
In an Open Letter to Oklahoma Voters and Lawmakers, Oklahoma teacher Steven Wedel writes a plea to parents and politicians.
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40 Important STEM Resources For Women
Although the American Association of University Women focuses on all of academia, closing the gender gap in STEM remains a priority.
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What To Tell Students You’ll Never See Again
Teaching binds teacher and student together even if that binding isn’t made in mutual affection. To teach and learn is to come together.
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Moving Up? 4 Tips For Managing Your Career As A Teacher
Here are some of the best insights for educators hoping to advance their career, whether in their current district or by relocating.
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Grant Wiggins, Champion Of Understanding
As an educator, Grant Wiggins was able to deftly balance the trivium of education improvement–thought, research, and tools teachers can use.
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The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environments
The changing uses of technology require that teachers adapt their methods of instruction to support student-directed learning.
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Teacher Reader Responses, Vol. 1: On Literacy
We’re sharing the insightful, detailed, emotional, or otherwise compelling reader responses in some intermittent pattern.
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Making the Shift To Visual Teaching
Shifting To Visual Teaching by Timothy Gangwer Ed note: This post is a preface to Timothy’s session at the International Conference of Creativity, Thinking & Education, April 18-20, 2015 at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota During a rehearsal of Debussy’s La Mer, Maestro Arturo Toscanini found himself unable to describe to the orchestra the effect he…
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The Difference Between Googling And Inquiry-Based Learning
Search is about finding pieces, knowledge is about knowing the potential value of those pieces.
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Every Teacher Is A Vocabulary Teacher
Vocabulary is a matter of meaning and degrees of meaning, which means it cannot be the ‘job’ of a single content area or teacher.
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What Is A Learning Simulation?
Learning Simulations: An Overview This post has been updated from a 2012 post. Clark Aldrich is an enthusiastic advocate for new learning forms, and leading thinker on the power of learning simulations and author of Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds and Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education. (These…
