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What Every Teacher Needs

Teaching / April 24, 2023 / Essential

While schools should center children in purpose, tone, structure, function, etc., what about teachers? What do they need?

Most emerging educational technology will continue to radically reshape itself and thus continue ’emerging.’

A KWHL chart is a variation of a KWL graphic organizer that adds ‘How’ to the predictive and reflective process.

Upgrading for me means a clean, fresh start. It’s about assessing what’s out there, removing what’s outdated, and investing in the future.

Hermeneutics is a branch of knowledge concerned with the theory, practice, and methodology of interpretation of text.

Athletes will rarely think, “I simply cannot make this shot.” Students–for whatever reason–are more likely to say, “I’m not good at tests.”

Social learning theory is a behavioral theory that posits that new behaviors can be learned by observing and imitating others.

Bandura’s Social Learning theory explained that children learn in social environments by observing and then imitating the behavior of others.

Why might you need alternatives to Bloom’s Taxonomy? While wonderful, it neglects important ideas that see the whole child.

Graphic organizers allow students to visualize, order, and categorize concepts using verbal representations & visuals.

Guiding inquiry-based learning centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question.

Question-based learning is a type of inquiry where the learner is guided by forming and refining a guiding question (or questions).