101 Things I’ve Learned So Far In Teaching
From knowing your own biases and modeling mistake-making, here are 101 teaching tips and things I’ve learned so far about teaching.
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Teaching Google Natives To Value Information
Digital natives–students born into our digital, connected world—have always had Google to bail them out. And maybe that’s okay.
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5 Strategies For Engaging The Netflix Generation
5 Strategies For Engaging Students With Video by James Cross Online video is taking the world by storm, and today’s students are the biggest consumers of online video content — they’re the ‘Netflix Generation’. These students have grown up in a world where video is available instantly, on-demand, and on any device. Combined with the…
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7 Strategies To Support Students Who Can’t Afford Technology
7 Strategies To Support Students Who Can’t Afford Technology by TeachThought Staff For all of its potential, education technology suffers from a flaw that public education has struggled with since its inception–equity. However you want to phrase it or refract it as an issue, the bottom line is that some people have more than others,…
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11 Bad Teaching Habits That Are Stifling Your Growth
These bad teaching habits range from habits of practice to habits of thought, & have one important thing in common: they make your job harder.
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Great Teaching Means Letting Go
Why Great Teaching Means Letting Go by Grant Wiggins, Ed.D, Authentic Education Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. Occasionally, we are going to go back and re-share his most memorable…
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10 Mind Mapping Strategies For Teachers
Mind Maps that have been created online can easily be printed and shared with students.
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Everything I (Thought I) Knew My Second Year Of Teaching
Everything I Knew My Second Year Of Teaching My 2nd year of teaching, my head was swimming. I had just gotten back from an ASCD conference–with a Marzano pre-conference and a heavy dose of Understanding by Design, Tomlinson’s ideas on differentiation, and some sessions on literacy. In spite of all of the great information I…
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Why Your Teaching Style Might Be A Bad Match For Your Students
Why Your Teaching Style Might Be A Bad Match For Your Students The relationship between you and your students is complex and dynamic. No matter what grade level you teach, at any moment you could be clarifying content, reinforcing a classroom process, modeling curiosity, or giving a pep talk. This kind of constant change is…
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What Teaching Writing In The 21st Century Might Look Like
Thought it needed a lot of work, it highlighted a couple of things: how much work writing really is.
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12 Strategies For Critical Assessment
Critics of the U.S. education system have set out to determine which evaluation method produces data that best captures the way students learn and the way they progress toward classroom goals. Since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, most educators “agree that we have gone too far in placing too much emphasis on…
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8 Simple Social Media Strategies For Your Classroom
8 Simple Social Media Strategies For Your Classroom by Adam Renfro first appeared on gettingsmart.com Are you ready to bring social networking to your classroom? If you’re looking to make your classroom more relevant, connected, and meaningful to your students, it’s the best place to start. Study after study has confirmed the benefits of networking. Before we…
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The Difference Between Learning Strategies And Skills
Teaching tactics unmoored from helping kids become autonomous decision-makers is doomed to fail, even if good tactics become second nature.
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Better Teaching: Why You Bore Students & What You Can Do About It
Why You Bore Students & What You Can Do About It Preface: You don’t mean to bore students. In fact, sometimes you’re downright interesting–the students are engaged, the buzz in the room is palpable, and even the hesitant students are asking questions. But the fact of the matter is, even the most charismatic and experienced…
