A Very, Very Powerful Motivational Video For Teens
What motivates this student to “succeed” in school? Is it intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? Does it ebb & flow? Is it perishable altogether?
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The Next Time You’re Ready To Give Up On A Student
The Next Time You’re Ready To Give Up On A Student by Terry Heick Few teachers will ever admit to “giving up” on a student. None that I know would ever outright turn their back on a child, but that doesn’t mean it’s always easy to know how to give that support–especially when they seem…
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What I Learned By Doing What I Ask Students To Do
Teachers shadowing students will quickly realize that sitting is exhausting, learning is often passive, and teachers are often irksome.
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5 Strategies For Engaging The Netflix Generation
5 Strategies For Engaging Students With Video by James Cross Online video is taking the world by storm, and today’s students are the biggest consumers of online video content — they’re the ‘Netflix Generation’. These students have grown up in a world where video is available instantly, on-demand, and on any device. Combined with the…
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Engaging In Isolation: Student Engagement In A Flipped Classroom
Engaging In Isolation: Student Engagement in a Flipped Classroom by Tridib Roy Chowdhury, Senior Director, Products, Adobe Systems This is part 2 of the series “Responsive Teaching For A Changing World,” a 3-part series is sponsored by Adobe Presenter 9. The Flipped Classroom model allows every student to learn at their own pace, with the rewind button of…
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46 Students Explain The Assignments That Got Their Attention This Year
I enjoy doing history projects that have to do with your own families history. It’s interesting and easier since it has a connection to you.
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How To Be A More Interesting Teacher
While it’s not your job to be a circus clown, student engagement leads to student growth. Here are 8 ways to be a more interesting teacher.
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27 Ways To Respond When Students Don’t Pay Attention
How Can You Respond When Students Don’t Pay Attention? Our initial reaction when seeing the following infographic from Mia MacMeekin was to think about instructional design rather than classroom management. That is, work backwards from a student-centered, inquiry-based, self-directed, and inherently personalized learning model where students, while plugged in to relevant digital and physical communities and working…
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A Framework For Student Motivation In A Blended Classroom
…Nonetheless, the above framework can help support the teacher in a blended classroom in promoting student motivation
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27 Ways To Increase Family Involvement In The Classroom
Improving the connection between school and home could yield a staggering improvement in both academic and “whole child” progress.
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27 Ways To Increase Student Engagement In Learning
Student engagement is often (wrongly) thought of in terms of ‘paying attention’: quietly making eye contact and maybe asking questions.
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Dialogic Teaching In Pursuit Of 21st Century Learning
Communicate with students today also means encouraging learning dialogue by using forms with which students are comfortable.
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What To Tell The Graduating Class Of 2013
The secret to life might be, in part, to be able to consistently align your own behavior with your belief system, and not the reverse.
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Student Argues Against Packets & The Appearance Of Teacher Apathy
Is this student who argues against packets a hero to rebellious students, or evidence of the challenge of reaching America’s youth?
