5 Dimensions Of Critical Digital Literacy: A Framework
Digital Literacy is increasingly important in an age where many students read more from screens than they do from books.
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8 Types Of Imagination
Here, Dr. Murray Hunter has offered eight types of imagination we use on a daily basis, from constructive to empathic and dreaming.
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20 Observable Characteristics Of Effective Teaching
What makes an effective teacher? Or more specifically, what observable characteristics might you see and hear?
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15 Interesting Ways To Start Class Tomorrow
The best part of ‘Count to 10’ is that it gives students who may not be the ‘best’ at other things a chance to win. If less than 90% of your students are smiling the whole time, you’re doing it wrong.
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The Importance Of Being Specific In Assessment Of Learning
When seeking to develop skills, feedback (and it must be timely) is only useful if it informs the student what areas need to be worked on.
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How To Never Run Out Of New Ideas As A Teacher
Just like a great teacher can teach anything, a great learner can learn from almost anything–and teachers are first learners.
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Getting To Know Students Starts With Asking The Right Questions
Want To Get To Know Your Students? Ask The Right Questions. contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Teacher It’s back to school time! Whether you’ve been teaching for two minutes or twenty years, this is a critical time of year. You meet your students. They stare you down. Not averages stare–the types of stares kids go home…
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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.
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5 Ways To Engage Reluctant Learners
While there are no magic bullets, certain principles & strategies can harness the intrinsic motivation that lies at the heart of each learner.
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Too Much Sitting? 5 Movement Strategies That Get Students Thinking
5 Movement Strategies That Get Kids Thinking contributed by Kenny McKee Each day more research confirms the link between movement and learning. Brain researcher David Sousa claims that physical activity increases the amount of oxygen in our blood, and this oxygen is related to enhanced learning and memory. A Washington Post article suggests that many…
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25 Tricks To Improve A Boring Lesson
Here are 25 quick tricks to improve a boring lesson so that students stay interested and engaged in the learning environment.
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The Science Of Classroom Design (Graphic)
Classroom design impacts classroom management, curriculum needs, lesson and unit design, teacher personality, technology needs, etc.
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6 Signs You’re Creating Confident Students
Self-confident and efficacious students are able to persevere in the face of obstacles and challenges.
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What It Means To Teach
What does it mean to be a teacher? We start out with the function of a teacher, and then begin to mix in ‘all the rest.’
