5 Strategies For Better Teacher Professional Development
Just as a teacher has to create conditions that support and encourage student success, school districts have to support teachers’ PD.
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What Is Edcamp? An Overview For Teachers
Edcamp is a participant-driven approach to PD. The result is a teacher-centered, ‘bottom-up’ approach to teacher improvement.
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Edcamp In Teacher Professional Development: 8 Benefits
Because topics and format are largely flexible in Edcamp, the result is an event that feels ‘teacher-centered’ versus institutionally-focused.
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Is Your PD For Teachers Working–Or Just Work?
Teachers are passionate about helping their students and improving their craft. But PD doesn’t always feel particularly helpful.
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Why Creating A Culture Of Inquiry Is So Important
Mediocre teaching loiters around the lower levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. A culture of ongoing inquiry can change that.
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5 Challenges We Overcame Moving To A Flipped Staff Meeting
One of the best aspects of being able to flip meetings is giving freedom, choice, and leadership opportunities to the teachers themselves.
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The Problem With Most School Mission Statements
Why do we create school mission statements alongside the planets & stars, then insist on data and strategies grounded in research & reality?
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10 Characteristics Of A Great Teacher
Some teachers still have trouble showing vulnerability–especially if they feel unable to keep up with the incredible demands of teaching.
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4 Keys To Sustainable School-Wide PBL
Hosting a workshop with teachers is only the first step to take in implementing a school-wide PBL plan for students.
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8 Alternatives To School Staff Meetings
Want alternatives to teacher staff meetings? Try empowering small groups for quicker, more personalized and adaptive meetings.
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8 Sneaky But Effective Simple School Improvement Strategies
So many trends in learning are repackaged approaches teachers have seen before, and when that trend appears different, its results are not.
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8 Simple Ways To Make Teachers Feel Appreciated
While the goal of a school isn’t ‘to make teachers happy,’ a school full of ‘happy’ teachers can change the world.
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27 Ways To Engage Teachers At Your Next Faculty Meeting
In this infographic, Mia MacMeekin offers 27 ways to make your next staff meeting more interesting—and engaging—for teachers.
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7 Ways To Improve Parental Involvement In The Classroom
Everyone agrees that parental involvement in student learning is important, and in fact a key factor in their success.
