Innovation Often Means Teaching Against The Grain
The feeling that I get observing students learning for themselves and assuming ownership of their experience is pure joy.
The feeling that I get observing students learning for themselves and assuming ownership of their experience is pure joy.
Recasts are very frequent in ESL classrooms as they involve changing the incorrect forms in learners’ answers with correct ones.
Out of all of the ideas and circumstances and knowledge and information that you encounter on a daily basis, what’s worth understanding?
If you would’ve told me that rather than quitting teaching, I should ‘try counseling,’ I probably would not have responded favorably.
Instead, schools that are working at implementing whole-child strategies should do so within the context of everyday teaching and learning.
Studying is often viewed as a means to an end. We hope these study strategies help learners realize that it is a powerful & empowering tool.
As teachers incorporate collaborative learning in their lesson plans, it is critical that they model active listening to their students.
Teaching with YouTube in the classroom? Here are the most popular and engaging channels to get you started.
From delegating roles to involving students in rubric design, here are group work strategies to help hold all students accountable.
Formative assessment strategies matter. Like a chef checks a dish for taste, teachers must make frequent, targeted checks for understanding.
From part to whole to synonyms and antonyms, to cause and effect and step and sequences, here are good examples for teaching with analogies.
Just as teaching with video games might be ‘controversial,’ so is teaching with what on the surface seems to be a superficial distraction.