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10 Characteristics Of A Great Teacher

Some teachers still have trouble showing vulnerability–especially if they feel unable to keep up with the incredible demands of teaching.

Marzano’s 9 Instructional Strategies include non-linguistic representations, generating and testing hypotheses, and summarizing.

Every classroom is as different as the person creating it. But are there any common elements that every modern classroom should share?

To use the Feynman Technique, practice explaining a concept to others as simply as possible. Make it simple, then make it simple again.

Cognitive biases are tendencies to selectively search for or interpret data in a way that confirms one’s existing beliefs.

This graphic is a kind of hybrid graphic that distills ideas about technology into ideas about digital citizenship.

Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.

‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to know.