A Pep Talk For Teachers from Kid President
Kid President gives a pep talk with humorous one-liners, playful editing, and a a direct address to both teachers and students.
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Teaching
Teaching: The art & science of helping people learn
If A Child Is Off-Task…
If A Child Is Off-Task… by TeachThought Staff Quick-hitting thought someone sent to us via email recently that resonated with
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Is It Time For Dumb Goals In Education?
This reductive approach extends to industrialized practices of grouping, scheduling, and packaging of students, curriculum, & performance.
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Assessment Design: A Matrix To Assess Your Assessments
Assessment matrixes can be used by teachers to think about rigor when designing assessments to think more clearly about cognitive demand.
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Transforming Education Starts In Your Classroom
Want To Transform Education? Start In Your Classroom. by Terry Heick If it’s a standards-based, outcomes-based, institutionally-centered (and nationally participative)
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What Do Teachers Do? What’s Their ‘Job’?
What am I expected to cause in students? What am I supposed to accomplish? Whatever the answer, that’s my job.
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The Changing Role Of The Teacher
Getting the conditions for self-directed learning right as a teacher requires an understanding of how people learn to think & problem-solve.
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Grit In The Classroom Has To Be A Dialogue
Grit In The Classroom Has To Be A Dialogue by Thomas Hoerr The rush to grit is pretty intense, but
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What Are You Going To Do To Inspire Students?
Resistance to ‘school work’ isn’t new, but if students literally—en masse—aren’t inspired to learn, why aren’t we more concerned?
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Talking To Students About Homosexuality
Talking To Students About Homosexuality On the surface, discussing sexuality in schools doesn’t seem an entirely natural thing–not in an
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11 Bad Teaching Habits That Are Stifling Your Growth
These bad teaching habits range from habits of practice to habits of thought, & have one important thing in common: they make your job harder.
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Boring School Staff Meeting? Here Are Some Ideas
Some Ideas To Enhance Boring School Staff Meetings For many of us, snow did this to us—pushing end-of-the-school-year proceedings until
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