Experienced Teacher – Page 21

21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology

Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with the urgent pace of change in the ways people read and write.

If you’re increasingly tired, prone to Sunday night blues, and your July excitement is replaced by dread, teacher burnout could be why.

Essential questions are ‘essential’ in the sense of signaling genuine, important and necessarily-ongoing inquiries.

From Accountable Talk to interactive RAFT Assignments, podcasting to debate, there are countless alternatives to lecturing.

Teachers who effectively use technology in the classroom have one thing in common: They care more about learning than the tools that cause it.

Students who are challenging–i.e. victims of disruptive childhoods–do not change overnight. They require time to grow.

When helping students design projects, I provide these kinds of prompts to help students see how texts, apps, and more can all work together.

Quality assessments seek to learn: what knowledge will I gain about my students’ mastery levels of standards by their answers to questions?