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How To Make A Student Give Up

If you want a child to give up, constantly emphasize their shortcomings and let them know you’re doing so for their own good.

One of the best aspects of being able to flip meetings is giving freedom, choice, and leadership opportunities to the teachers themselves.

Teaching / November 19, 2019 / How-To, New Teacher

The benefit of creating movie posters in the classroom is that they require the students to concisely ‘capture’ a film in order to persuade others.

To use the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, students need to see others using it and who better to model it but you?

So many trends in learning are repackaged approaches teachers have seen before, and when that trend appears different, its results are not.

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

Technology / May 23, 2019 / How-To, Math

IXL is a personalized learning platform used by over 400,000 teachers worldwide. Here are 8 ways to use IXL in the classroom.

YouTube offers effortless consumption of millions of videos. In the unsupervised hands of children, this presents a challenge.

Tweets are limited to 280 characters–plenty for a well-written sentence. Ask students to tweet their thesis statements in one sentence.

Being able to quickly provide learning feedback is one of the best part about well-designed technology tools, and Google Docs is no exception.

Recently, we offered a glimpse of Google Science Journal, Today, we’re taking a look at how to add and delete questions on a Google Form.

From Microsoft OneDrive and Hightail to Google Drive and Dropbox, here are 15 of the best ways to share large files–updated for 2021.