Teachers
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Why Your Teaching Motto Matters
Yogi Berra once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” This is why your teaching motto matters—you ... -
How Teachers Can Help All Students Succeed
Teachers play an essential role in the academic success of all the children they teach. However, it is critical that they play an even ... -
How Teacher Expectations Influence Student Performance
Culturally diverse students, like all students, are vulnerable to teacher expectations. The Rosenthal and Jacobson study of 1968 was the first full-length study to ... -
Using Movies for Effective Instruction
Teachers have always shown movies in the classroom, but most of the time we associate those movies with dead time, or non-instructional time. However, ... -
Testing Experts Convene at What May Be the Most Consequential Conference in Education
Assessment has been an education hot button since the day the first one room schoolhouse sent home the first report card, and probably even ... -
The Edvocate Podcast, Episode 12: Ways That Digital Age Teachers Ensure Productivity
The life of a teacher is busy, and there never seem to be enough hours in a day. However, smart teachers offset this by ... -
What is a Teacherpreneur?
Definition: Teacherpreneurs are classroom experts who teach students regularly, but also have time, space, and reward to incubate and execute their own ideas — just ... -
Station Rotation: How to Reach All Students
Blended learning opportunities have been scientifically proven to boost learning for many students, and Station Rotation is one model that allows students to visit ... -
Ingenious Ideas for Teaching Vocabulary
If students learned vocabulary by seeing a word and a definition once, every teacher would have a much easier job. Class, however, would be ... -
How to Decide if Teaching is the Right Career for You
If you have been following my work, you know I spent 7 years a K-12 teacher and 7 years as a university professor, eventually ...
