12 Things Every Lesson You Teach Should Have
Every lesson plan should have a clear and compelling–and accessible–role for each student during each moment of the lesson.
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What Is Necessary For Learning?
Sugata Mitra showed that children could learn complex tasks in the absence of formal training, spurred on by curiosity and peer interest.
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Why Worrying About Screen Time Might Be The Wrong Approach
While screen time certainly matters, focusing only on time is like developing a literacy program that focuses only on ‘minutes read.’
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18 Questions To Ask Students About Their Day Remote Learning
What kinds of questions to ask students support what they’ve learned remotely and enhance their ability to apply it?
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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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10 Strategies To Promote Curiosity In Learning
Questions are indicators of engagement and curiosity in learning. Just as usefully, they are evidence for what a student understands.
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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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The Benefits Of Competency-Based Assessment
Competency-based learning provides students clear feedback about specific competencies and skills gained over time.
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5 Simple Ideas That Can Transform Your Teaching
The school year is a marathon, not a series of sprints. You have longer than you think to help students learn by transforming your teaching.
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Me Learning: A Student-Centered Learning Model
Key questions of Me learning include, “What’s worth understanding?” and, “What’s worth doing with what I come to understand?”
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7 Principles Of Sustainable Learning: An Agrarian Learning Model
Can we design a school that’s more inherently sustainable? Our 7 principles of sustainable learning focus on to place, limits, scale, & more.
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50 Sentence Stems for Reading Critically
Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.
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8 Learning Domains Of Modern Critical Pedagogy
How has teaching changed? What is 21st century pedagogy? Key elements include analytics, personalization, place, and perspective.
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How To Create A Forward-Leaning Curriculum
How do you create a forward-leaning curriculum? Situate non-judgment, openness, and empathy as the true keys to 21st century competency.
