Ideas Archives

4 Simple Ideas To Use Technology To Engage Students

If we want to use technology to engage our students, it should have a purpose and amplify their learning experiences and potential.

When students finish early, help them by naturally funneling them toward extending and improving the work they’ve already done.

Teaching / August 18, 2021 / Ideas

From getting feedback from field experts to using project-based learning, here are 12 ideas to make learning more like the ‘real world.’

The genesis of a great project is the idea itself — we’re providing you with 50 smart ideas for project-based learning in your classroom.

Make any politician voting on legislation have to qualify for that right to vote by spending a certain number of hours in the classroom.

Since many boys do not read teacher-privileged literary fiction texts at home, many of them classify themselves as non-readers.

This list includes 20 (mostly) simple things you can do (relatively) quickly to become a better teacher in the 21st century.

We developed a taxonomy to provide a schema of prompts that could be used by students and teachers to hone their reflective thinking skills.

Just like a great teacher can teach anything, a great learner can learn from almost anything–and teachers are first learners.

When helping students design projects, I provide these kinds of prompts to help students see how texts, apps, and more can all work together.

Grading essays can be extremely time-consuming. Here are 12 smart–and simple–ideas to grade essays faster.

Literacy / June 1, 2017 / Ideas

Poetry gets a bad rap for being too dense and pretentious. Try these strategies to help students who hate poetry warm up to its magic.