Tag: reflective teacher
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The trendy classroom management strategy you should never use
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
Traditional or Alternate: What Teacher Preparation Program is Better?
When thinking about whether to pursue a traditional teacher education program or enter an alternate-route program, money is unfortunately a major consideration. Some studies suggest that, ... -
The 4 Characteristics of a Healthy School Culture
School climate and school culture directly affect how successful your students will be. As a result, it is crucial for the school and the classroom culture ... -
Ask An Expert: Should Teachers Give Spelling Tests?
Question: Should students be given weekly spelling tests? Rebecca S. Answer: First of all, thank you for your question. Weekly spelling tests are a time-honored tradition ... -
3 Unconventional, Yet Perfectly Valid Reasons to Become a Teacher
Here are three slightly unconventional, yet perfectly valid reasons to become a teacher: -
Listening, not testing, will improve children’s vocabulary
James Law, Newcastle University Every few months a story appears about the declining speech and language skills of children arriving in primary school. The epithet “the ... -
Society Trusts (and Expects a Lot From) Teachers. Why?
Teachers are the conduit for the quality of life in America, because they touch just about every adult in the nation at some point in their ... -
Parents can’t answer everything children ask about science – and that’s OK
Carol Davenport, Northumbria University, Newcastle If a child asked you how close an astronaut can get to the sun, the chances are you’d need a moment ... -
How Mentorship Can Help Teachers Succeed
Just like having good mentors is important to student teaching, as newly hired educator, having a mentor at your school is incredibly important, too. Mentor teachers ... -
Student motivation: An adult problem with grown-up solutions
By Vinod Lobo, Learning Upgrade How can we motivate the lowest performing students in a school to complete a rigorous standards-based curriculum and move up to ...
