Stop Saying Learning Styles Don’t Work
Somehow, the idea that one student learns best by listening and another while doing jumping jacks has come to define learning styles.
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12 Alternatives To Letter Grades In Education
In this alternative to letter grades, work is first graded and then, through revision and iteration, is gradually improved and ultimately curated.
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Curriculum Planning Tips For Any Grade Level Or Content Area
By exposing students to critical content over and over again in increasingly complex ways, spiraling is a flexible and potent curriculum mapping strategy.
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5 Levels Of Student Engagement: A Continuum For Teaching
It was already clear that students want to ‘do well’ for different reasons but now I could see a fuller continuum of student engagement.
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Data-Driven Teaching? The Unit Isn’t Doing You Any Favors
If we insist on outcomes-based, data-driven teaching, the traditional unit—at least in its current guise—has no business in our classrooms.
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12 Things That Will Disappear From Classrooms In The Next 12 Years
Desks, tests, computer labs, and more. Here are 12 things that could disappear from classrooms in the next 12 years.
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What Happens When Teachers Connect
When one teacher meets another, they exchange ideas. Comparing and finding common ground and learning new things is nearly automatic.
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How To Get Fired As A Teacher
Whatever the reason, if you want to get fired as a teacher, it’s not as easy as you’d think. In fact, it takes real effort.
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12 General Critical Thinking Questions About Voting And Government
Critical Thinking Questions About Voting & Government by Terry Heick Just a quick post that’s self-explanatory enough: It’s almost #ElectionDay!
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The Most Important Question Every Assessment Should Answer
Whether a formal test or an informal observation, the most important question every assessment should answer is, ‘What now?’
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The Difference Between Assessment Of And Assessment For Learning
Assessment for learning is commonly referred to as formative assessment–that is, assessment designed to inform instruction.
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A Really Cool Database For Paper Airplanes
There’s more that goes into duplicating paper airplane models than you’d think. If you’d like to try, here’s a paper airplane database.
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