3 Practical Tips For Teaching ELL Students
Give your ELL students opportunities to make mistakes and create a culture where students can learn and grow from them.
Give your ELL students opportunities to make mistakes and create a culture where students can learn and grow from them.
A teacher makes over 1500 educational decisions every school day, a constant juggle of manager, content holder, master communicator, and support system.
How To Create A Twitter Chat In Your School contributed by Nellie Mitchell A twitter chat is an amazing resource for professional development and gives educators the option to participate in their PJs, from the comfort of their own home! It is essentially a chat room, with everyone sharing and talking and hanging out virtually—discussing…
What do educators and learners need from iPad integration? What is tablet ‘workflow’ in an educational context?

Students were asked leading and lower-level questions which resulted in the teacher answering the questions rather than allowing students to engage in productive struggle.

Humorous teacher stereotypes include the Diet Coke addict, the TMI teacher, the hippie teacher, the overachiever, and the cool teacher.
Well-meaning local change agents and schools continue to make mistakes in how Understanding by Design (UbD) is implemented.

he way forward, then, might just be a more nuanced discussion about how people learn, and what role technology can play in that process.
by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher & Learnist Evangelist If you’ve been in a classroom as long as I have, you’ll know students say some interesting things. You may have seen student test papers with humorous answers. Students always seem to have a reason, excuse, or insight or response for everything. Sometimes, their remarks are…
Too Many Teachers Leave Before Hitting Their Stride by Paul Barnwell, Teacher of English & Digital Media According to University of Pennsylvania professor Richard Ingersoll, between 40 and 50 percent of teachers leave the classroom within their first five years. Given the demands of the job, this isn’t too surprising, and his data reveals a steady uptick…
For the Google Generation, information isn’t scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away.
Done properly, lightening the planning load through collaboration should enable teachers to focus on relationship-building.
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…

New teachers want to be excellent but at times, they are pretty hard on themselves.