Teaching Resources For Sustainable, Innovative Teaching

What Is 3 Before Me?

Teaching / April 9, 2021 / Fundamentals

‘3 Before Me’ requires that when students are stuck, they must first try to solve the problem in 3 different ways before asking the teacher.

Genius requires one to reject convention in pursuit of something special through a mix of intelligence, creativity, mindset, and perseverance.

The school year is a marathon, not a series of sprints. You have longer than you think to help students learn by transforming your teaching.

From making it adaptive to changing the form, timing, language, or structure of the assessment, here are 20 ways to improve a test.

Student engagement is one of the most fundamental requirements of learning. Without an engaged mind, everything else is futile.

Does the multiple choice question require a passage or graphic? Does it provide students with the best opportunity to ‘show what they know’?

Teaching / March 15, 2021 / Terry Heick

Good teachers seek engaged students. Great teachers–somehow, someway–find out what makes students click, and use it.

Education research is great, but it has nothing on what you are able to see every day within your classroom.

Teaching / March 4, 2021 / Fundamentals

Reflection is a fundamental tenet of learning; and therefore, a fundamental part of teaching. Here’s what it means to be a reflective teacher.

Gradual Release of Responsibility is a strategy characterized by a sequence of learning activities that shift responsibility to the student.

If you want to be more aware of what gamification, these examples may be useful if for nothing else than to be more intentional in using it.

While we’d love to create a few templates of our own, here five of our favorite Trello boards for teachers we’ve found.