Tag: How-To

By asking learners to add 'yet' to the end of their 'I can’t do this' comments, possibilities are opened up for success in future attempts and iterations.

Working hard also means being smart. Prioritizing, collaborating, and working with a 'do less' partner can all help you reduce your workload as a teacher.

Designers use movement to guide viewers with lines, shapes, and colors. Educators can use this principle, guiding students to key ideas.

Properly washing your hands can be reduced to a few basic rules: Use soap, scrub vigorously for at least 20 seconds, and dry with a clean towel.

If you want a child to give up, constantly emphasize their shortcomings and let them know you're doing so for their own good.

Problems still surfaced but with a system in place, it was much easier to identify exactly what went wrong and why and communicate it to students.

Short, easy-to-create-and-share video isn't hugely different than writing--useful for assessment, collaboration, reflection, and more.

One of the best aspects of being able to flip meetings is giving freedom, choice, and leadership opportunities to the teachers themselves.

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.

To use the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, students need to see others using it and who better to model it but you?

Synced learning requires two potentially opposing technologies: the ability to engage the same core material, and the ability to engage the material independently.

Project-based learning can benefit from planning ahead--clarity in what students are actually doing and why.

8 Sneaky But Effective Simple School-Improvement Strategies by Terry Heick Education reform is tricky. For one, so many teachers are wary of change. Not improvement, mind you, but change for ...

How To Create A Forward-Leaning Curriculum  contributed by Thom Markham, Educator This post has been updated from a 2013 post. To learn more about professional development around these ideas, contact ...

To use the Feynman Technique, practice explaining a concept to others as simply as possible. Make it simple, then make it simple again.

How To Use IXL: 8 Tips For Using The K-12 Adaptive Learning Platform by TeachThought Staff IXL is a personalized learning platform used by over 400,000 teachers worldwide. It combines ...

YouTube offers effortless consumption of millions of videos. In the unsupervised hands of children, this presents a challenge.

Tweets are limited to 280 characters--plenty for a well-written sentence. Ask students to tweet their thesis statements in one sentence.