Becoming Invisible In My Classroom
The teacher isn’t at the front of the room talking. They are everywhere, interacting with students and challenging them to keep pushing.
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Teaching
Teaching: The art & science of helping people learn
Why We Should Make It Easier–Not Harder–To Be A Teacher
If we’re asking teachers to help young people be the best they can be, shouldn’t we clear as many obstacles as possible?
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10 Ways Traditional Classrooms Punish Mistakes In Learning
By using uniform standards and assessment forms, our education system often punishes errors, rather than rewarding risk-taking.
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What’s The Best Teaching Advice You’ve Ever Gotten?
This week’s topic is simple enough: What’s the best teaching advice you’ve ever gotten? Sound off in the comments and let us know.
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Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know
‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to know.
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5 Tips For Teaching With Art In Any Subject Area
By engaging your students with works of art, you can help them see the world while teaching them to value diverse perspectives.
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Should Teachers Give Their Phone Number To Parents?
Don’t go giving parents your personal phone number. Bad idea. Very bad idea. Sign up for Google Voice to text parents.
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Modern Trends In Education: 50 Different Approaches To Learning
What if a class consisted of words that led to information that whirled into blended realms of creativity set up just for students, created by students?
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10 Ways To Give Students More Control Of Their Education
One way to give students more control of their education is to allow them to create their own schedule–and revise it as necessary.
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An Efficient Classroom: 6 Factors Of Academic Achievement
What are the primary factors of academic performance? While literacy skills and background knowledge matter, so does motivation.
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I’m Not Sure What To Think About Backward Design
Backward design encourages you to plan for a destination not by anticipating but visualizing the end and planning backward from there.
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What Is The Identity Of Your Classroom?
Whether or not they’re accurate, how you’re perceived–and how your school, grade level, content area, and course are thought of–matters.
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