10 Messages Every Teacher Should Send To Parents
Recognizing parents’ challenges can turn things around for a troubled family and transform child’s behavior and performance at school.
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18 Of The Best Formative Assessment Tools For Digital Exit Tickets
18 of the best formative assessment tools for teachers–to glean data, take snapshots of understanding, create digital exit slips, and more.
25 Tips To Reduce Digital Distractions And Improve Your Focus
Staying up-to-date on the latest of everything is less important than the quality of your work. Start with this truth and the rest is easier.
How To Deal With A Difficult Parent
In all of my years of teaching, I can count on one hand the number of ‘difficult parents’ I had to face. But when I did, it was extremely challenging.
Exactly How Technology Can Make Reading Better
Let me be clear: I prefer physical books with soft covers. This is not about sentimentality. Rather, this is about how technology can make reading better.
Shifting Your Assessments To Grow Higher-Level Thinking
Since students typically perform better on low-level thinking items, teachers may believe students understand more deeply than they actually do.
The Definition Of Blended Learning
Blended learning combines face-to-face teaching and online instruction. Ideally, each will complement the other by using its particular strength.
28 Student-Centered Instructional Strategies
Student-centered teaching is teaching designed for the student. Done well, it can disarm some of the more intimidating parts of academia.
A Reading Comprehension Tool To Simplify Text
Rewordify attempts to simplify the text at the vocabulary level (as opposed to syntactical, structural, or idea level) to make complex texts easier to read.
Why Being Wrong Is Actually A Good Thing
This is first about how the process of becoming wrong—the sweeping of the arms out in front of you as you search—helps you become right.
The Selflessness Of Pedagogy: What Every Teacher Gives
The ‘giving’ of yourself implies that you give your whole self to the act of teaching–that you merge your ‘self’ and your pedagogy.
Why Teachers Need One Another
Who gets to say you’re doing a good job as a teacher? When you go to bed at night, whose approval are you really looking for?