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How to Teach Better: Master Reading Differentiation Strategies

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Jennifer Seravallo is dedicated to helping reading teachers improve their teaching methods by providing practical tips and in-depth insights into differentiated reading strategies. How do you select the right reading strategies?

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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

In a world of standardized tests and rigid curricula, fostering a culture of continuous, personalized growth for teachers allows them to stay abreast of current trends and effective strategies, maximize time, and become the best iteration of themselves for the learners they serve. Offer teachers a diverse menu of learning opportunities.

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How to Make Learning Stick

A Principal's Reflections

As I wrote in a recent post, direct instruction serves a purpose and can be an invaluable strategy to help set the stage for learning. In Chapter 4 of Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms , I dive into these practical and realistic strategies and many others that can help learn stick for all kids. Cognitive overload inhibits learning.

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How to Maintain Your Students’ Attention in Class

Waterford

Rather than letting that be a problem, you can structure your lesson plans based on your knowledge of the average student’s attention span and use specific strategies to keep them focused during learning time. Then, find strategies to maintain student attention in class–including five fun focus games that make great brain breaks.

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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

Waterford

Then, we’ll provide you with a few tips and strategies for improving your students’ intrinsic motivation. Before we explore how to motivate your students to learn, let’s go over the difference between two types: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. How to Motivate Students: Encourage Intrinsic Motivation. V erywell Mind, Jan.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 35 Edition)

Doug Levin

Indeed, a desired discussion about where and how to draw the lines of ethical behavior too often turns into one about whether such a line is even necessary or fair … I don’t claim any special moral authority here. How to make sense of the new eRate gift rules ). It is as if I am speaking a foreign language.

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NEO will be at ISTE 2017!

Neo LMS

The countdown has begun and we can hardly contain our enthusiasm at the thought of meeting once again so many beautiful people who, before anything else, are interested in how to leverage technology in order to do more for student learning. NEO by CYPHER LEARNING will be exhibiting at ISTE 2017 for the third time! Reasons abound.

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