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Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking
It would make sense that as tech becomes more integrated, accessible, and smarter, those connections will deepen as our priorities change.
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A Process For Responding To Your Most Challenging Students
The students’ strengths–and your trust–are two tools that can help you form a relationship when working with challenging students.
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How To Create A No-Zero Policy In Your Classroom
It was because I changed my policy on zeroes mid-year that this student was afforded the opportunity to pass when everything looked bleak.
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How My Students Organize Their Language Arts Binder
How Students Organize Their Language Arts Binders by Terry Heick For many humanities teachers, how you have students organize their class binders–or if you have them keep one at all–says a lot about how you view that content area. Like an architect’s drawing table or a painter’s palette, for a teacher of any humanities course–especially…
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Keep It Simple: Do These 4 Things Every Time You Teach
There are unpredictable ways your lesson can trigger a wound. Teachers can reduce those sudden reactions by providing directions in 4 ways.
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How Stress Changes A Student’s Brain: The Neurology Of ‘Pressure’
Stress cuts off students’ access to higher-level networks of higher-order thinking, logic, creative problem solving, and analytical judgment.
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12 Examples Of Gamification In The Classroom
Examples of gamification include additive grading, using levels of progress, creating learning badges or trophies to include, and more.
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Fake News? NYT Reporter To Host Webinar On Fact-Checking
Participants will hear from political reporter Nicholas Confessore, about how he develops, fact-checks and writes news stories.
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4 Key Characteristics Of Effective Teachers
When a student demonstrates skill mastery, great teachers support deeper thinking and learning through authentic application of learning.
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Education & Our Strange Culture Of Bad Homework Assignments
In a culture so heavily invested in progress, the anomaly of unattended and unmoderated homework assignment seems scandalously peculiar.
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How To Cultivate A Growth Mindset In Your Classroom
Here are 5 key factors for teachers and students to consider that can create a powerful synergy for improving engagement and learning.
