A List Of 50+ Teaching Strategies To Jumpstart Your Teacher Brain
These 50+ strategies to jumpstart your teaching brain include literacy strategies, approaches to assessment, and grouping strategies.
The Teacher’s Guide To Wikipedia In The Classroom
This guide, in the form of 11 questions and answers, helps clarify certain misconceptions about what has come to be one of the most popular and frequently used websites in the world. It also can can be found in its entirety on wikipedia.com. As it is created by Wikipedia–or some arrangement of its volunteer editors–it is undoubtedly…
Curriculum Is More Important Than Learning Technology
The overwhelming amount of information will surely impede learning for many students in the absence of teaching grounded in good curriculum.
10 Team-Building Games That Promote Critical Thinking
Begin a story that incorporates whatever happens to be on your assigned photo. The next student continues the story, incorporating their photo, and so on.
Why I Hate School But Love Education
Why I Hate School But Love Education That “school,” as it is, could be improved isn’t a new argument. How to make those improvements to revise our “systems” of learning in light of modern technology access and cultural patterns is why organizations like TeachThought, Edutopia, and so many others exist. With so many talented teachers…
An Infographic That Summarizes Twitter For Teachers
We’ve got a guide to twitter hashtags for education that helps aggregate some of the must-know twitter tidbits. And of course, cybraryman has especially useful twitter resources as well. But there is something approachable about the following infographic from USC Rossier School of Education’s online teaching degree that makes it the kind of thing you…
Teaching American History By Examining Our Collective Failures
by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher & Learnist Evangelist Last week I answered a Quora question about why history should be taught “instead of something more practical.” What could be “more practical” than history? History defines us as a culture, unites us and divides us in turn, tells the story of hegemony, opportunity, change, and…
Bloom’s Taxonomy According To Jerry Seinfeld
You may find it amusing that someone has taken the traditionally dry taxonomy and mashed it with the comedy series Seinfeld to create something unique.
A Conversion Chart For Reading Level Measurement Tools
Reading level measurements aren’t perfect and neither are the conversions but as a general guide, it’s a handy tool to keep around.
The iPad Oath: 10 Rules For iPad Use In The Classroom
techchef4u.com’s iPad Oath covers iPad ownership, time on-task, charging, app installation/removal, jailbreaking, and consent to inspection.
Not Everything You See Has A Place In Your Classroom
Not Everything You See Has A Place In Your Classroom by Kay Bisaillion, Teacher I am doing something I have wanted to do for many years–going back to school and continuing my education. I have cut back my hours at school and registered for classes. I am taking classes in a real classroom with real…
The Factors That Impact The Learning Curve Of English-Language Learners
Motivating, offering experiences, differentiating, and teaching rich content guarantee success for our English-language learners.
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