50 Alternatives To Lecturing In The Classroom
From Accountable Talk to interactive RAFT Assignments, podcasting to debate, there are countless alternatives to lecturing.
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Teaching Digital Students Non-Digital Things
How can you teach digital students non-digital things? 21st century reading & thinking is linked in a web of physical & digital media.
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6 Ways Social Media Can Change Your Classroom
So how do we incorporate healthy social media use in the classroom? The following Sylvia Duckworth graphic offers some helpful initial ideas.
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Why Assessments Don’t Really Measure Understanding
If you can show all assessment results, learners may realize that understanding is evasive, evolving, and as dynamic as their imaginations.
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6 Critical Thinking Questions For Any Situation
Critical thinking questions depend on what’s being ‘thought about,’ but one universal example includes, ‘How do I know what I think I know?’
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How To Design A Wikipedia Writing & Research Assignment
The idea of actually using Wikipedia to explicitly teach research for an entire unit is less common than its use for researching credibility.
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A Teacher Planning Model For Multiple Intelligences
How can I use one student’s tendencies and ‘intelligences’ to support them in developing other less-developed areas?
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What’s A Thematic Unit? A Way To Unify What You Teach
In math, a thematic unit could explore the relationship between math and video games. In Language Arts, it could about the language of social protest.
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34 Strategies For The Stages Of Assessment: Before, During & After
Mia MacMeekin’s graphic offers 34 strategies for all of the stages of assessment –before, during, and after.
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How Great Teaching And Learning Grow Under The PBL Umbrella
Growing Great Teaching And Learning Under The PBL Umbrella Framework contributed by Drew Perkins “You mean I have to throw out all the work that I’ve done to refine my teaching over the years?” Our PBL workshop facilitators hear this question, or something similar, with regularity and the answer is, NO! We certainly understand the nervousness…
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Using Project-Based Learning To Flip Bloom’s Taxonomy For Deeper Learning
A central feature of high quality PBL is the pedagogical relationship between the Driving Question and the “Need to Knows” that stem from it.
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7 Characteristics of Great Professional Development
What are the characteristics of great professional development for teachers? It starts with training that actually improves their teaching.
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How The Culture Of Achievement Is Hurting Our Schools
The Culture of Achievement is having a dangerous effect on education, focusing on easily quantifiable & measurable results: test scores.
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The Big Picture Of Education Technology: The Padagogy Wheel
Teaching is a matter of design.
