Catlin Tucker
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Every time I lead a blended learning workshop, teachers ask me the same question. “How do you deal with students who are off task or distracting other students?” This is a hard question to answer. Classroom management isn’t something I have struggled with. That’s not to say that I haven’t had challenging students throughout my 16 years in the classroom, but their behavior is never an ongoing issue or distraction.
A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
As a school administrator, I remember always having the best intentions when it came to instructional leadership. During every summer, my team and I would reflect on the past year and establish a better vision and plan for how we all would collectively work to improve learning. In theory, we devised ambitious, yet attainable goals during these months, or so we thought.
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eSchool News
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Over the years, an increasing amount of schools nationwide have incorporated the STEM framework into their curriculum, engaging students around the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math. The framework has proved to be a critical component to elementary education that better prepares students’ for future careers, especially since the United States is expecting to see more than three million job openings in the STEM-related fields in 2018.
TeachThought - Learn better.
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
What Is Four-Dimensional Questioning? contributed by Dr. Jamie Schwandt, (Ed.D.) Questioning is like a missile guidance system designed to attack a specific target; whereas, a question guidance system is designed to identify an exact issue, problem, or answer. Dan Rothstein of the Right Question Institute sums it up nicely, “The way you ask a question yields […].
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The Innovative Educator
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Read fear-mongering pieces like the click bate trio of stories that appeared in the New York Times this fall about the " Dark Consensus Around Screens ," and you'd think you can't be a good parent or educator unless you limit screen time. While such pieces prey on insecurities, make good headlines, and draw in concerned parents and teachers, at best such stories lack nuance.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Today we spent sometime going through our PD archive and pulled out these three resources to help teachers with their professional development. Each of these resources features a number of.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Discourse analysis is an interdisciplinary area of study that combines a multitude of theories, methods, and analytical procedures. Approaches to discourses analysis vary according to ones analytical.
Veative
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects nearly 1 in 20 children in USA. It is characterized by inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and impulsive behavior. According to the American Psychiatric Association, ADHD is a brain disorder that usually occurs in childhood, but symptoms may continue well into adolescence and may even persist into adulthood.
TeachThought - Learn better.
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
How To Google Search By Date by Terry Heick The internet has a big problem. Well, it has a lot of problems because people have problems and people use and construct, participate in and otherwise realize the architecture of the internet. But high on the list of issues is search, from how poorly it actually […]. The post How To Google Search By Date appeared first on TeachThought.
MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Being mindful of what is driving the decisions we make as educators is valuable. A good place to start is by defining our own core values. New principal Rita Platt shares a method for distilling those values and tells how she applied hers to several school decisions.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
This week’s #BloggerMondays blog is The Tempered Radical by Bill Ferriter, a sixth-grade teacher from Raleigh, North Carolina. Ferriter shares his experiences as a classroom teacher openly, highlighting his good days and bad. If you want to get a quick sense of his blog, check out the post titled “ This is Why I Teach: Long Days. Lots of Smiles.” In addition to his classroom teaching, Ferriter is also an expert on professional learning communities and integrating technology meaningfully into in
TeachThought - Learn better.
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Apply For The Sony KOOV Robotics Kit Pilot Program by TeachThought Staff What Is The KOOV Pilot Program? Explore the coding and robotics kit with the KOOV Pilot Program from Sony. Empower students to achieve a deeper understanding of programming logic and structure with a powerful tool that supports science, technology, engineering, art, and math […].
EmergingEdTech
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Informative, inspiring, or just plain interesting education and digital technology content from across the web, posted on Twitter over the past week and collected here to share with our blog readers. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
TeachThought - Learn better.
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 142 Addressing Teacher Shortages By Creating Strong Work Environments Drew Perkins talks with Talia Milgrom-Elcott, co-founder and Executive Director of 100Kin10, about their work to address teacher shortages by improving the work environments in multiple ways and specifically with regards to STEM. Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode: 100Kin10.org @100Kin10 Facebook: 100Kin10 […].
This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Children in eastern Finland in what is considered one of the most important activities of the day: recess. Photo: William Doyle. We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum.
The Jose Vilson
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Just before I got home, I turn on DMX’s “X Gon’ Give It To Ya” because it matches the BPM I need to make it through the length of JFK International Airport corridors. As I get off the umpteenth moving sidewalk, DMX rapped : “I’ve been doing this for 19 years. Cats wanna fight me? Fight these tears. I put in work, and it’s all for the kids, But these cats done forgot what work is.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
In this episode of the Truth for Teachers podcast, we’re talking about how to let go of the good so you can make time for the great. So many teachers who feel like there’s nothing they can eliminate from their schedule are only looking for things that are obviously bad and a total waste of time. But fewer things better is about realizing you won’t have time for all the good things, and some of those will have to be eliminated, too.
The Principal of Change
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
My good friend and a colleague I highly respect, AJ Juliani, is offering an opportunity to get a copy of his book, “ The PBL Playbook ” by paying shipping and handling only. AJ does some incredible work, and I love his blog, and this is a great way to dive deeper into Project Based Learning. If you are interested, you can order your copy here: The PBL Playbook – by AJ Juliani.
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MindShift
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Excerpted from “ Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement ” by Heather Wolpert-Gawron. The following is from the chapter “Give Us Choices.” . By Heather Wolpert-Gawron. In 1971, Starbucks opened in Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington. Since then, according to recent math, Starbucks now offers up to 87,000 options for your sipping pleasure (“Starbucks Stay Mum on Drink Math,” 2008).
User Generated Education
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Truth be told, I always disliked history and government classes as a K through undergraduate student. I found it dry, boring, irrelevant, and unimportant. I believe this was due to it all being about memorization. memorizing events and dates in history; memorizing the branches of government; memorizing states and their capitols. This type of learning reflects only remembering, the lowest level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
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