If A Child Is Off-Task… by TeachThought Staff Quick-hitting thought someone sent to us via email recently that resonated with us: If a child is off-task, perhaps the problem is not the child but the task –Alfie Kohn If a child is off task, perhaps the problem is not the child but the task –Alfie…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
These are some of the best motivational videos for students to help with mindset and perspective–seeing the commonality in human experience.
…Nonetheless, the above framework can help support the teacher in a blended classroom in promoting student motivation
Improving the connection between school and home could yield a staggering improvement in both academic and “whole child” progress.
Student engagement is often (wrongly) thought of in terms of ‘paying attention’: quietly making eye contact and maybe asking questions.
Communicate with students today also means encouraging learning dialogue by using forms with which students are comfortable.
A Message To The Graduating Class Of 2013 You’re graduating, which means school—the formal and academic portion of your learning experience–is over. You’re going to be hit with a lot of questions, either about college or a “job,” mostly from well-intentioned adults trying to make conversation or throw in their two cents. So here’s my…
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