4 Strategies For Implementing Learning Stations In Your Classroom
One idea is each academic group comes to the teacher in groups of four to six students for direct instruction.
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The First 6 Weeks: Strategies For Getting To Know Your Students
The better we know our students, and the more they know and trust that we know them, the more invested they become in their learning.
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3 Tips For Teaching Close Reading
3 Tips For Teaching Close Reading by Dan Henderson, Author of That’s Special: A Survival Guide To Teaching Here are some best practices for close reading. Below I’ve included three strategies to support your close reading lesson, and beneath these tips, I have shared a story about a close reading lesson in which a student…
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3 Strategies To Promote Positive Reinforcement
Positive reinforcement is the act of rewarding desired behavior by offering a desired reward. The goal is to promote future desired behavior.
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7 Pros & Cons Of Teaching With Genius Hour
What’s it like teaching with Genius Hour? Students accustomed to being told what to do, when, and how can feel uneasy without ‘assignments.’
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I Don’t Keep Teaching Because Of Kids
contributed by Paul Barnwell, mindfulstew.org Ask most teachers why they teach, and you’ll hear iterations of the same theme: I want to make a difference in student lives. I love interacting with kids. I have an chance to change their trajectories. I agree with the above, and it certainly applies to me too. As a…
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Teaching Is Harder–And More Rewarding–Than Ever
Teaching Is Harder–And More Rewarding–Than Ever by Nellie Mitchell Nostalgia comes pretty effortlessly as we get older, doesn’t it? It is fun to look back with fondness at the things that used to be so cool in school, like the Oregon Trail game, laser disks, and typewriters. Were they effective instruction tools? Maybe not, but they…
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Culturally Responsive Teaching Starts With Students
Culturally Responsive Teaching Starts With Students by Dr. Matthew Lynch, Dean of the School of Education, Psychology, & Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Union University A multicultural society is best served by a culturally responsive curriculum. Schools that acknowledge the diversity of their student population understand the importance of promoting cultural awareness. Teachers who are interested in fostering a…
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Creative Teaching Starts With Empowerment
How Empowerment Fosters Creativity by creativist.io Everyone has at least one story where they have witnessed the silencing of creativity. It might be a story where a teacher or a district policy confused joy with disruption. It might be a story where a child whose inner fire was lit by music and movement was forced…
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Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum
If we want to prepare students, we need to integrate, combine, and cut. Less is more. What’s most important in your curriculum?
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Opportunities For Creativity In Your Teaching
Quantity matters in creativity. Generate as many ideas as possible, alone and collaboratively. (Ideally alone first, then together.)
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Teaching African American Students Through Parallel Inquiry
Teaching African American students starts with you. Through critical and parallel inquiry, you can help African American students find their own answers.
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Making the Shift To Visual Teaching
Shifting To Visual Teaching by Timothy Gangwer Ed note: This post is a preface to Timothy’s session at the International Conference of Creativity, Thinking & Education, April 18-20, 2015 at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota During a rehearsal of Debussy’s La Mer, Maestro Arturo Toscanini found himself unable to describe to the orchestra the effect he…
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The ABCs Of Sticky Teaching
What is ‘sticky teaching’? It’s an obvious and relatively simple but interesting idea: teaching that causes learning to stick.
