The Trouble With Measuring Understanding
Measuring understanding might be the most complex thing teachers do. Unfortunately, PD gives little attention to making quality assessments.
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The Pedagogy Of John Dewey: A Summary
Dewey believed that learning was socially constructed and that brain-based pedagogy should emphasize active, experiential learning.
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30 Of The Most Popular Trends In Education
Some of the most popular trends in education include Social-Emotional Learning, blended learning, and sustainable teaching.
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Twitter Hashtags For Education Guide
Twitter Hashtags: A Complete Guide What is a hashtag? A word or phrase preceded by a “#.” How do hashtags work? Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets–and thus lots of “noise.” A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. Picture it like a magnet that attracts all…
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A Model For Teaching Critical Thinking
Like anything else in your classroom, promoting critical thinking skills is a matter of planning, priority, and practice.
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The Most Significant Change of Common Core Adoption
The Most Significant Change of Common Core Adoption While debates around the Common Core State Standards have often focused on mathematics content and assessments, the most consequential shift has been structural: literacy became a cross-disciplinary responsibility rather than an English Language Arts (ELA) franchise. This reorientation—from siloed skills to shared, disciplinary literacy—altered curricular design, professional…
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Stop Looking For New Tools And Start Looking For New Ideas
Be wary of new learning technology and create a core of timeless pedagogy whose function can benefit from those technologies.
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The Definition Of 5 Different Types Of Teaching
John Hattie’s body of work suggests that surface learning is the foundation for deeper learning, transfer learning is crucial for success in the real world, and deeper learning is facilitated through inquiry teaching.
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How To Help Students Learn From Anything
What/who is the most compelling, ongoing catalyst for helping students learn in your classroom? If it’s the teacher, you’re in trouble.
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The Problem With Predicting The Future Education
Every year there would be a new mandate from the district whose primary agenda was teacher ‘buy-in’ rather than ‘students living better today for a better tomorrow.
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10 Specific Examples Of Emerging Education Technologies
Most emerging educational technology will continue to radically reshape itself and thus continue ’emerging.’
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What School Redesign Can Look Like When It’s More Than a Slogan
Across the United States, a small but growing number of districts are quietly moving past traditional reform models.
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What Are Literature Circles?
Literature Circles are a way for students to assume a specific role in the study of something (usually a text).
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8 Ways To Create A Brain-Friendly Classroom
How can you create a brain-friendly classroom? By reducing stress, creating positive associations, and promoting feedback loops.
