Teaching Resources For Sustainable, Innovative Teaching

12 Smart Ideas To Grade Essays Faster

Grading essays can be extremely time-consuming. Here are 12 smart–and simple–ideas to grade essays faster.

Teaching / November 10, 2020 / Terry Heick

Good teaching is addicting–a kind of magic. It’s also unsustainable by the standards we’ve created for schools and teachers.

In helping students understand empathy, teachers give award learners the influence they have always held, but maybe didn’t realize.

Strategies for creating digital choice boards include starting simply, adding audio or video content, and using learning taxonomies.

Teaching / October 29, 2020 / Whole Teacher

It took a few days for me to really shake off the effects of that week, and knowing my classroom was making me feel bad was an awful feeling.

Teaching / October 28, 2020 / Coronavirus

In a rapidly changing world, schools and districts have a chance to embrace significant and lasting change in ways never before possible.

Recognizing parents’ challenges can turn things around for a troubled family and transform child’s behavior and performance at school.

Teaching / September 19, 2020 / Whole Child

The potential for new learning spaces and dynamics represents an opportunity for a different kind of resonance–and hopefully, joy.

Using assessment solely for grading and deducting arbitrary points for lateness are among several common misunderstandings about assessment.

Improvement in teaching can be reduced to a matter of prioritization, practice, reflection and refinement.

At the most basic level, these could be thumbs up/thumbs sideways/thumbs down. They could also be question marks and exclamation points.

Student-centered teaching is simply the process of teaching with student needs ‘first.’ Here are 15 examples of student-centered teaching.