Teachers
Great Teachers Don’t Teach
Imagine this: You walk into your classroom one day and say to your students, “A poll cited in the Scientific American says that just 66 percent of millennials firmly believe ...
Educational Leadership
What Responsibilities Do Principals Have in the Cafeteria?
A principal wears all the hats in the school—provides direction for teachers, students, and staff; assesses curricula; monitor student achievement; evaluates teaching methods; revise policies and ...
Higher Education
Improving Student Learning Outcomes
For too many teachers, a test or quiz is the way to evaluate learning outcomes. High grade=Pass, Low grade=Fail (or close to failing). With so many ...
Edtech & Innovation
Classroom Projects for a Digital Age
Classroom learning today has left the age of flipping through textbooks to follow along with the teacher, at least not for every class lesson. Teachers today are taking advantage of ...
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A Novel Way to Engage Students
Listen to educators almost anywhere and at any grade level, including college, and you will hear questions on how to keep students engaged throughout the entire lesson. Students enter class with a wide variety of experiences, stressors, and distractions that teachers know nothing about—and that is just in one day. So, is there a way ...Great Teachers Don’t Teach
Imagine this: You walk into your classroom one day and say to your students, “A poll cited in the Scientific American says that just 66 percent of millennials firmly believe that the Earth is round. Do you believe this is true? That the world is not round? Your assignment for the next 2 weeks is ...Lesson Plan Help for New Teachers
Being a new teacher can be quite intimidating as there are so many critical things to learn. And, that does not even include what happens when school actually starts. One area where a new teacher can find help and resources is for lesson planning. Here are some ideas to keep in mind as you plan: ...The Merits of Using Authentic Assessments
Focused on developing a more authentic, fair method of assessing student knowledge than standardized tests, Grant Wiggins wrote an essay in the early 1990s in which he argued that “As long as we hold simplistic monitoring tests to be adequate models of and incentives for reaching national intellectual standards, student performance, teaching, and our thinking ...Teaching Students to Use Metacognition During the Learning Process
Everyone in life experiences setbacks, frustrations, challenges, and new, unfamiliar experiences, and the ability to think about how to adapt to those circumstances can be the difference between success and failure. It is learning what works best for you and maximizing it. If adults struggle with this process called “metacognition”, or how we think about ...
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