10 Things I Wish I Knew My First Year Of Teaching
I learned that my classroom wasn’t *my* classroom. Rather, it was a learning space for children. The classroom belonged to them.
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What Is Genius Hour? An Overview For The Classroom
Genius hour is an approach to learning where students are guided by their own interests, background knowledge, and curiosity to learn.
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22 Simple Assessment Strategies You Can Use Every Day
Here are 22 simple assessment strategies and tips to help you become more frequent in your teaching, planning, and curriculum design.
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12 Ways For Teachers To Save Time In The Classroom
Implementing the instructional process of formative assessment can actually maximize learning and help teachers save time in the classroom.
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Other Data: 20 Signs You’re Making A Difference As A Teacher
Teachers are given bar graphs on tests to show if they’re actually making a difference but there are other data points you should consider.
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6 Speech And Language Apps For iOS
Speech and language is one area of educational apps that has exploded with smashing success. Here are 6 options to try out for iOS.
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9 Ways To Help Students Learn Through Their Mistakes
There are different kinds of mistakes: careless mistakes, systematic mistakes, misconceptions, etc. Students need help understanding this.
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Drawing Ideas: The Benefits Of Mindmapping For Learning
Mind-maps allow teachers to gain insight into their students’ thought processes and see the development of their work.
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11 Personalized Learning Strategies That Work
A choice board is a simple personalized learning tool that provides scaffolding, tiering, use of Bloom’s, multiple learning styles, and more.
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9 Questions To Reflect Critically On Your Own Teaching
Video your teaching to see what really happens in your classroom. Then, reflect critically on your teaching with these 9 questions.
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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.
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The Importance Of Intrinsic Motivation
What motivates students? More specifically, what motivates them to be engaged at school to master the objective you’ve chosen for them?
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12 Of The Best Digital Tools And Rhyming Dictionaries For Writing
These 12 rhyming dictionaries and tools can help you find rhyming words, synonyms, and other forms of creative wordplay.
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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.
