50 Alternatives To Lecturing In The Classroom
From Accountable Talk to interactive RAFT Assignments, podcasting to debate, there are countless alternatives to lecturing.
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5 Tips To Help Students Arrive At Their Own Understandings
Initially, in your teaching, you may want to practice aiming only for one Understanding per unit to get a feel for the kind of groundwork.
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How We Created A Reading Program For Urban Students In Poverty
We saw a need for a reading program and created one via teacher empowerment, focus on reading strategies, and high-interest texts.
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How To Create A Custom Google Search Engine For Your Students
Not only can you create a search engine that uses specific sources (rather than the internet at large), you can also adjust how it behaves.
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Why Assessments Don’t Really Measure Understanding
If you can show all assessment results, learners may realize that understanding is evasive, evolving, and as dynamic as their imaginations.
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6 Questions Every Teacher Needs To Answer In Order To Grow
Growing as a teacher requires knowing what you know and what you don’t know, and neither are as simple as they seem.
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How Teaching Is Changing: 15 Challenges For The Modern Teacher
A modern teacher has to demonstrate for students not how to solve problems, but why those problems should be solved.
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5 Priorities For Transformative Schools
The current debate over standards is a sign of ignorance. It consumes us, but offers empty calories, not sustenance for a deeper journey
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When School Is Nothing Like The World Students Live In
School Is Nothing Like The World Students Live In In 2020, the distinction between formal and informal learning is more crucial than ever. As a classroom teacher, this difference is an important distinction. Formal learning happens through strategic planning of learning experiences, often direct instruction from teachers. Teacher and school improvement is driven by the…
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Why The Best Teachers Change Their Minds
If you’re changing your mind—about inquiry, the ideal lesson template, or the best audiences for project-based learning products—that means you’re growing.
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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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14 Questions Every Teacher Should Ask About Lesson Plans
Good questions to guide teacher lesson plans should help move the teacher from ‘What will students do?’ to ‘How can I help them understand?”
