The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 8, 2018

Jarod Bormann on episode 269 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teachers need to have say in their own PD, but how do you help teachers become intrinsically motivated to learn? We need some Apple Suite training, and so forth.”. What about them?”.

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Neo LMS

JULY 24, 2018

In my last blog we started discussing the “why” of gamification , with a specific focus on the nature of motivation, lensed through one broadly held theory of motivation called Self-Determination Theory (SDT), not to be confused at this point with self-directed learning. Gamification and online learning environments.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2016

Global Teacher Prize Finalist Mike Soskil Shares His Secrets From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. You can unleash a student intrinsic motivation from the first day of school. Additionally, he shares secrets for creating a culture that unleashes student intrinsic motivation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 30, 2017

Episode 44 of The 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. How to encourage intrinsic motivation. Blog: [link]. Blog: [link]. Author Daniel Pink about intrinsic motivation. Today Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo discusses classroom management.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

What schools used to teach students, the skills needed in the past and their applicability in real life are no longer suitable in a scientifically and technologically developing world. Student-directed learning. By doing so, students learn the relevance of what they are studying. Interdisciplinary learning. Open-ended inquiry.

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Neo LMS

MAY 10, 2022

Some students also fell behind because of outdated devices or weak internet connections. It takes weeks or even months to put students back on track. Learning gaps are the difference between what students should have learned through a specific curriculum and what they learned in reality. What are learning gaps in education?

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Neo LMS

JULY 28, 2020

If you have the opportunity to spend time outside with your students, or even teach them a multitude of disciplines outside, these are a few reasons why this could be beneficial for both your students and yourself. Read more: Promoting student well-being through serious games. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

As colleges ask faculty to prepare for a possible online, hybrid or altered in-person fall semester—or all three simultaneously—many instructors are wondering how to best measure student learning. Tony Crider, professor of astrophysics at Elon University, offers his students “ epic finales” instead of final exams.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2016

How to Become a Master at Student Motivation From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Student self-motivation is, perhaps, the Holy Grail of teaching. In fact, the hardest days of teaching are when your students don’t care. Unleash student motivation.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

However, since the pandemic, our teaching habits have changed and technology has become an intrinsic part of our profession. Having multiple classes with similar names can get confusing for both teachers and students. You can add text, images, videos, and other information you consider necessary for your students.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

Academic achievement is the final goal of a student’s educational journey. However, to reach optimal results, students need several skills such as critical thinking, planning, self-monitoring, and problem-solving that they develop throughout their educational process. What are the most important executive functioning skills?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Intriguing research shows that popular approaches to motivate students using rewards such as money, gold stars, or points (called “extrinsic motivators”) may in fact lead them to lose interest in learning (1). These core principles, outlined below, provide a useful framework for teachers seeking to improve student motivation.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 28, 2018

Schools around the country have embraced the value of service learning for developing and nurturing students’ civic values and attitudes, as well as building academic competencies. The micro-credentials cover: Tying service learning to curricular goals : educators lead students in aligning service learning to learning goals and outcomes.

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Teacher Tech

JULY 31, 2017

3 Alternatives to Accelerated Reader (AR) Guest Blog Post by Shaelynn Farnsworth Accelerated Reader, Reading Counts, and any other program which substitutes students’ intrinsic motivation to read and replaces it with an extrinsic, point-rewarding system is wrong and is not what’s best for kids.

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Hapara

JUNE 17, 2022

PBL is a teaching methodology that engages students using a sustained inquiry-based approach. It connects learning to real-world contexts, honors student voice and choice and allows students to build transferable skills such as critical thinking, giving and receiving feedback, collaboration, communication and project management.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2016

Keeping students motivated is a challenge for educators and parents alike. By now you’re probably familiar with popular strategies such as grit and growth mindset , which are effective but not entirely foolproof in their abilities to enhance student motivation. What is Purpose for Learning? Why does it work?

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Linways Technologies

OCTOBER 2, 2020

SBG is a goal-oriented technique for teachers to track their students’ progress and achievements while focusing on helping students learn and reach their highest potential. Each target is a teachable concept that students should master by the end of the course. Student centricity. How does SBG improve education.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 28, 2022

Student autonomy in the classroom is essential for efficient learning. Students need to be able to learn at their own pace to better grasp and retain information Self-paced, personalized learning allows them to gradually accumulate knowledge and competencies according to their needs and level. . Autonomous learning boosts their: .

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teacher-Student Relationships Matter The American Psychological Association has emphasized the importance of improving student-teacher relationships. Thus, student-teacher relationships are part of classroom culture. Start Playing.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT a little more than six months ago, students have quickly figured out how to get the free AI chatbot to do their homework for them. For one thing, Bajkiewicz, who is a broadcast journalism professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, teaches more than 200 students per class.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 13, 2017

Students absorb information from the teacher (one direction) and then are required to regurgitate that information back to the teacher in the form of tests, essays and homework (also one direction). An online learning environment requires students to communicate effectively and clearly. Communication. Creativity.

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Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As students continue to progress through school, reading material becomes increasingly more difficult while comprehension can decline. There’s a variety of theories and techniques to address reading comprehension at the K-12 level with blogs being one of the latest tactics to consider. Technology intrinsically motivates students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

10MT #21 | 10-Minute Teacher Interview with Todd Nesloney From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Unleashing student intrinsic motivation. Need some more Monday Morning Motivation? Blog www.toddnesloney.com. Adam Welcome Blog [link]. How to deal with failure.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. Research shows there are four elements that help students become naturally motivated to learn: challenge , goals , feedback , and curiosity. a consulting company for product designers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Amy Fast on episode 171 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We only have so much time that we can do things in, and so much manpower and motivation to do those with. A must-listen for school leaders. Work smarter instead of harder. Listen Now. Amy: Correct.

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100mentors

JANUARY 23, 2018

This is the first post in our 3-part series discussing techniques teachers can use to unleash their students’ full potential. As the number of new international schools continues to grow, schools are tasked with redefining student success with metrics that go beyond test scores, and focus more on qualitative competition.

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More Verbs

MARCH 5, 2016

Even though we may be working with “Digital Natives,” students do not necessarily have the technology skills to do the work we want them to do with their laptops and tablets. I once observed a middle school Health Education teacher work with her students on a technology-based project. She ended up making a critical mistake.

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Edthena

MAY 6, 2022

Teachers, and the instructional coaches who support them, frequently set goals aimed at improving teacher practice and student outcomes. PEERS goals (Powerful, Easy, Emotionally Compelling, Reachable, and Student-Focused), developed by Jim Knight, are a tool for creating and better understanding goals for meaningful outcomes.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In his blog post on Kidblog.org entitled, Top 3 Reasons I Have My Students Blog , Steve Kowalski says, “When it comes to writing, the more feedback a student receives, the more they want to write. Even a small number of comments creates positive reinforcement that will motivate students to write.”

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Digital Promise

JUNE 21, 2018

Of the 700,000 students who drop out of high school each year, many leave with, and because of, low literacy skills. It is crucial for students to build their writing skills to develop as confident, independent writers. These strategies can improve the quality, length, and structure of students’ writing.

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Cycles of Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This is third of a three-part blog post series on the use of Padlet during distance learning. This post DEFINITELY represents something I am very excited about and I sense is working very well: capturing student work during an engineering design cycle in the distance learning format.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

Students may not know something yet, but that shouldn’t stop them from figuring out the answer, improving their skills, or meeting their academic goals. At Edmentum , we believe that growth mindset goes hand in hand with personalized learning, an increasingly popular approach that aims to put students in control of their own learning.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If your students are using the new ST Math , I want to make sure you know about some of the new features that will make playing ST Math more productive, rewarding, and engaging than ever before—whether distance learning, in the classroom, or at home. Student Metrics. Animation Controls. Annotation Tool.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2017

An early stage education technology company, Cignition, is attempting to break that trend through a summer program that keeps students engaged in mathematics through their online virtual world Fog Stone Isle. According to a newsletter from the Harvard Graduate School of Education [2], on average, students lose 2.6

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Valuing student agency is not a new idea to education. Instead, students should be invited to design their own learning pathways and projects to pursue based on genuine interest and inquiry. Deci and Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory highlights the importance of autonomy, a close relative of agency, in fostering intrinsic motivation.

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User Generated Education

MAY 5, 2018

Institutionalized education has given assessment a bad reputation; often leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many teachers, students, and laypeople. This is primarily due to the testing movement, the push towards using student assessment in the form of tests as a measure of student, teacher, principal, and school accountability.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

One of the best parts about blogging for me is that my parents read each and every post. During my early years of blogging I always posted each post to my personal Facebook page and emailed my parents a live link. Her passion for always finding the best in all of her students still sticks with me to this day even in my new role.

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