What I Really Think About Teacher Effectiveness Ratings by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education While exploring teacher effectiveness ratings, I went looking for a New York City high school that had the same demographic profile as the struggling high school referenced previously (see here), but had nonetheless earned good ratings for making adequate improvement on their graduation rates and…
by Saksham Khosla, LumenEd Across the world, there is a widespread demand for young people to address major issues of global significance through cross-cultural cooperation. While American schools are attempting to keep up with this demand, true global competency cannot be achieved through international exchange programs that less than 1% of young people participate in. In the…
What technology does what? This edtech chart collects examples of edtech tools in a range of categories for teaching and learning.
Encyclopedia Britannica Noet Edition combines one of the world’s most trusted sources of information with primary sources and research tools.
I use Seesaw as a way to document exemplar student work and record evidence of the key academic skills they’re working towards.
Responding To Criticisms Of The Common Core by Adam Blum, CEO of OpenEd Ed note: Supporting “commonness” or standardization isn’t a part of our mission at TeachThought, but we are interested in giving equal voice to diverse voices across education. Further, the majority of educators in the United States teach according to the Common Core…
From Civ 5 and Portal 2 to Assassin’s Creed and Minecraft, here are 50 of the best video games for learning.
Teachers are using technology to teach reading, arguing that interactive video games provide the skills that students need to be able to read.
Teachers can use Google Chrome extensions for almost anything–from finding related resources to sending links to colleagues.
YouTube for Kids is a child-centered app by Google that curates age-appropriate content for various age ranges.
Teaching African American students starts with you. Through critical and parallel inquiry, you can help African American students find their own answers.
Awareness. Empowerment. Practice. These are the three key ingredients to growing (and maintaining) a creative teacher.