10 Benefits Of Digital Planning Tools For Teachers
Done properly, lightening the planning load through collaboration should enable teachers to focus on relationship-building.
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27 Ways To Respond When Students Don’t Pay Attention
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…
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What Induction Coaches Do To Help New Teachers
by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher and Learnist Evangelist New teachers face many challenges. They are entering the field at one of the most demanding times ever, and turnover is high. Even the best teacher prep program can’t simulate a real classroom. As a result, many good people find themselves ill equipped to handle the demands…
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The Definition Of Student Backchanneling
Backchanneling allows students to use collaborative note-taking, ask questions, share notes, and more in real-time without ‘disturbing’ the class.
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10 Simple Tips For Better Teaching With Tablets
10 Simple Tips For Better Teaching With Tablets contributed by Ravi Bhatt, iAnnotate Software Developer Teachers can’t escape the growing trend of technology in the classroom. It’s more than just hype. More schools are buying tablets for use in the classroom, with Apple’s tablet sales to the education sector doubling last year. As a mobile…
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47 Core Teacher Apps: A Visual Library Of Apps For Teachers
A Visual Library Of Core Teacher Apps Using the iPad in a 1:1 environment requires not only some ground rules, but a bit of common language. Since every student has their own iPad, and teachers likely do as well, this common tool necessitates some universal understanding: What do we mean by “on-task”? Same screen? Same…
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10 Pros And Cons Of Looping In Education
There are pros and cons that need to be considered when deciding if looping can enhance learning at your school and if it can be implemented.
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The Fundamentals Of Blended Learning
The following post describes the fundamentals of blended learning, including its definition, popular models, and effective in-class results.
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5 Tips For A Smoother BYOD Transition
In making a BYOD transition, consider defining policies, growing client densities, managing devices, and understanding impacts.
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How A Good Teacher Becomes Great
How Does A Good Teacher Become Great? by Terry Heick Good teachers are amazing–and rare. The ignorance of the Those who can’t, teach mantra is frightening–being a good teacher is an incredible challenge to achieve consistently. Good teachers use data to drive instruction, know the ins and outs of their curriculum, have refined assessments over…
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4 Simple Team Building Games
Here are four simple team-building games that provide opportunities for students to interact, engage, and create a team atmosphere.
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How To Be A Mediocre Teacher
Want to be a mediocre teacher? Don’t listen to students, keep learning in the classroom, and focus on preparing students for the future.
