10 Tips And Strategies To Overcome The Fear Of Public Speaking
Public speaking is about telling some kind of ‘story.’ Never tell a story without making a point, never make a point without a story.
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Download Your Official 2016 NCAA Bracket PDF Here!
In addition to frameworks on inquiry & critical thinking, you can also get your 2016 NCAA Men’s College Basketball Bracket here in PDF form.
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On Pushback From ‘Pinterest Criticism’
Pinterest is an easy way to get through the day and supplement pedagogy, but it’s not the final answer to this question of building brains.
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Amazon Sale On Kindle Books For Students & Lifelong Learning
We’re late in getting this out to you (the promotion ends in about 7 hours), but today Amazon is having a sale on books for students.
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Ken Robinson: How To Escape Education’s Death Valley
Fine-Tuning Education Won’t Work: How To Escape Education’s Death Valley by TeachThought Staff Ed reform, as it is, depends on iteration. Minor adjustments. Step-by-step. A linear process. In general, we create initiatives that we hope will yield desired results, and measure their effectiveness with tests. This, at best, gives us program-based, test-measured improvement. But improvement of…
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Teacher Wish Lists: Because School Supply Shopping Goes Year-Round
Items on a basic back-to-school list don’t change that much each year, so why are school supply lists getting longer?
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Program Invites High School Students To France For 10 Day WWII Immersion
Program Invites High School Students To France For 10 Day WWII Immersion From a press release WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Albert H. Small Student Teacher Institute is providing a fully funded learning experience taking fifteen student-teacher pairs to Normandy, France to tell the story of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. National History Day is…
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I Don’t Keep Teaching Because Of Kids
contributed by Paul Barnwell, mindfulstew.org Ask most teachers why they teach, and you’ll hear iterations of the same theme: I want to make a difference in student lives. I love interacting with kids. I have an chance to change their trajectories. I agree with the above, and it certainly applies to me too. As a…
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What To Read Next: 100 Timeless Books, Poems, And Essays
What should you read next? Consider Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World,’ Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ or Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Player Piano.’
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Graphic: A History Of Ancient Philosophy
Graphic: A History Of Ancient Philosophy by Noet Scholarly Tools This post is offered by Noet Scholarly Tools who are offering TeachThought readers 20% off their entire order at Noet.com with coupon code TEACHTHOUGHT (enter the coupon code after you’ve signed in). They asked us to share their latest teaching resource on ancient philosophy to help inspire students to explore classic…
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Grant Wiggins, Champion Of Understanding
As an educator, Grant Wiggins was able to deftly balance the trivium of education improvement–thought, research, and tools teachers can use.
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What A Struggling School Looks Like On Paper
Students were asked leading and lower-level questions which resulted in the teacher answering the questions rather than allowing students to engage in productive struggle.
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25 Random Thoughts About Teaching & Learning
25 Random Thoughts About Teaching & Learning by Terry Heick The picture? It’s Spring, and I missed the sun. On to the random thoughts… That #makered is as much a tone as it is a trend. Every school and district needs a “Chief Change Officer.” That “screen time” may be an under-studied phenomenon worthy of…
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The Classroom Cribs Challenge Asks You To Think About Learning Spaces
The Classroom Cribs Challenge Asks You To Think About Learning Spaces by Classroomcribs.com As we look towards the 2014-2015 school year, one question continually jumps out to me as an educator: How do our learning spaces impact our students? As a new English teacher I remember getting into my classroom for the first time. I…
