Teachers
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These Teacher-Friendly Software Tools Are Your New Best Friends
The Internet is a huge arena of resources, but sometimes, navigating it effectively can seem like a daunting task. How do you know what’s ... -
Handling Gender Differences in the Classroom through Instruction
To actively engage students in the classroom, it is necessary to avoid gender discriminations. This article discusses an instructional approach to eliminating discriminations within ... -
A Look At High-Stakes Tests: The Pro’s and Cons
Education today is run rampant with evaluations. Classroom tests, national standardized assessments, even scores that reflect international performance – students from elementary school through ... -
Educators: Do You Know About These Alternatives to High-Stakes Tests?
How to best quantify educational achievement and recognize academic progress is a continually hot debate. Standardized tests are too uniform and broad in scope ... -
Teachers: Make the Most of Your Classroom Assessments
While it’s usually outside the scope of a teacher’s responsibilities to make decisions about standardized testing in school, it is every teacher’s responsibility to ... -
Objective Assessments: Are Choice-Based Tests Best for Your Classroom?
When it comes to potential structures for classroom assessments, choice-based tests are an oft-used format. They’re easy to make, straightforward to grade, and simply-structured ... -
Establishing Order In Your Classroom: Five Common Approaches to Classroom Management
This article introduces different classroom management approaches, with the self-discipline and the desist approach at opposite ends. There’s no single method for managing a ... -
Focus on These Four Areas to Create a Classroom Environment Conducive to Learning
Effective teachers look for every available opportunity to increase student learning. The classroom environment is a teaching resource that should not be ignored. Students ... -
Building the Individual: Draws and Drawbacks of Student-Centered Curricula
Should schools design classes to match the kids, or help build kids ready to take on any kind of class? What’s really the best ... -
Fielding the Awkward, Focusing on Study: Making the Most of the Middle School Environment
Middle school, awkward a time as most people remember it, is, educationally, the time when kids really start to flourish. The hope is that ...
