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.
Backchanneling allows students to use collaborative note-taking, ask questions, share notes, and more in real-time without ‘disturbing’ the class.
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…
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.
The following post describes the fundamentals of blended learning, including its definition, popular models, and effective in-class results.
In making a BYOD transition, consider defining policies, growing client densities, managing devices, and understanding impacts.
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…
Here are four simple team-building games that provide opportunities for students to interact, engage, and create a team atmosphere.
Augmented reality is a medium through which the known world fuses with current tech to create a uniquely blended interactive experience.