25 Tips To Reduce Digital Distractions And Improve Your Focus
Most of us are constantly being bombarded by digital distractions. The good news is that we can keep them from hindering our concentration.
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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.
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Exactly How Technology Can Make Reading Better
It doesn’t always seem like it, but technology can make reading ‘better,’ if done well.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Reading Comprehension Tool To Simplify Text
Rewordify attempts to simplify the text at the vocabulary level help to make complex texts easier to read.
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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.
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How To Make A Movie Poster: A Template For Students
The benefit of creating movie posters in the classroom is that they require the students to concisely ‘capture’ a film in order to persuade others.
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Become A Better Teacher: 20 Things You Can Learn In 10 Minutes
This list includes 20 (mostly) simple things you can do (relatively) quickly to become a better teacher in the 21st century.
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Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies For Teaching And Learning
Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies include non-linguistic representations, generating and testing hypotheses, and summarizing.
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48 Ways Google Can Help You Become A Better Teacher
Use Google maps to tell digital stories with text, photo and video all embedded into a trail students create on the map to share with others.
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Why Teaching Is Still The Best Job In The World
Besides teaching, there aren’t many jobs where it’s your job to work with so many children to make their life better on a daily basis.
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When Teachers Step Out Of Their Comfort Zones
What happens when teachers step out of their comfort zones? Well, that depends on the nature of the change.
