Learning Profiles: What Great Teachers Know About Their Students
Most learning profiles are quick glances of academic data. There’s nothing wrong with this. They are useful, but they are also limited.
This is a collection of some of our best–and not necessarily most popular–content.
Most learning profiles are quick glances of academic data. There’s nothing wrong with this. They are useful, but they are also limited.
Learning in a synced classroom requires the ability to engage the same core material and the ability to engage the material independently.
So what does quality have to do with learning? Quite a bit, it turns out. And it starts out with helping students understand what it means.
We’ve compiled our best articles on classroom management for novice & experienced teachers to refresh their skills & reframe their thinking.
Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.
As we make learning visible, the process and sequence of learning is illuminated. This helps students see understanding as always evolving.
The shift toward a fluid, formless, socialized nature of information, thought, and belief is a not a small one.
When introducing students to new content, the right questions and language can help disarm uncertainty and encourage a growth mindset.
A good school decenters itself–makes its curriculum, policies, and other ‘pieces’ less visible than students and hope and growth.
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
One goal for disruption in education could be the ongoing emergence of new ideas–new learning models, content, new strategies and thinking.
Reading is personal but we often focus on the mechanics instead of the people and the strategies instead of the living and breathing happening around us.