A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 9, 2019
“ When you finally let go of the past, something better comes along.” – Anonymous There are many reasons why we tend to fall back on what we are either comfortable with or have always done. For one, comfort tends to be the enemy of growth. In other cases, the fear of failure of the unknown can derail us from taking the needed risks to implement new and better ideas.
TeachThought - Learn better.
JUNE 9, 2019
15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching by Terry Heick 15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching–And 15 That Are Not So Much Student-centered teaching is simply the process of teaching with student needs ‘first.’ In 28 Student-Centered Instructional Strategies, we expanded some on the idea, explaining: “This means that planning often begins with the student in mind as […].
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JUNE 9, 2019
ReadWriteThink is one of our favourite resources for interactive tools and materials to use with students in class. We have already reviewed several of its tools in previous posts here in EdTech and.
TeachThought - Learn better.
JUNE 9, 2019
The Difference Between Innovation-Led Evidence And Evidence-Led Innovation by Conrad Wolfram, Computer-Based Math Ed note: This post has been republished from previous posting. Recently, I was part of a high-level discussion about maths and computer science education, how we could improve their reach and effectiveness. Rather quickly the question of evidence came up, and its […].
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 9, 2019
. Sixth grade can be a difficult year, filled with plenty of pre-teen angst and drama. Students are engaged in a constant battle, trying find their own voices without drawing too much attention to themselves. They are anxious. Their parents are even more anxious. As a sixth-grade mathematics teacher, I see my job as easing this transition and getting everyone excited about what is to come.
The Innovative Educator
JUNE 9, 2019
Haben Girma , the first deaf-blind student to graduate Harvard Law spoke at an Accessibility Expo to a New York City Department of Education audience about the importance of sharing positive disability stories and services available. At the Expo attendees saw amazing work happening in schools with students. If you did not have the opportunity to attend, you don't have a way to find out about what's happening.
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MiddleWeb
JUNE 9, 2019
To move beyond the usual data reports that crowd admin inboxes, Ronald Williamson and Barbara Blackburn recommend shadow studies that gather insights into how students experience daily school life in and out of class. Learn how it's done and why it's worth the time.
TeacherCast
JUNE 9, 2019
Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. The EDU Podcasters Database is a crowdsourced project created by EDU Podcasters FOR EDU Podcasters. Sign Your Podcast Up To Join The List Today! The post Add Your Educational Podcast to the EDU Podcasters Database Today! appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.
Veative
JUNE 9, 2019
VR in the classroom is a hot topic these days, fresh on the lips of enthusiastic instructors and neophyte teachers alike. However, this new-ish device is fraught with a painful and potentially expensive learning curve, and an industry pointing teachers in one direction. Is that direction, a teacher-centric, teacher-lead model of classroom usage, the right way to go?
MindShift
JUNE 9, 2019
This year, NPR held its first Student Podcast Challenge — a podcast contest for students in grades 5 through 12. As we listened to the almost 6,000 entries , we smiled, laughed, and even cried. Students opened their lives to us with stories about their families, their schools and communities and their hopes for the future. We named our winners last month — the eighth graders of Bronx Prep Middle School in New York, and the eleventh graders of Elizabethton High School in Tennessee.
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.
User Generated Education
JUNE 9, 2019
Implementing Maker, STEM, STEAM Education. In order to prevent STEM and maker education from becoming a flavor of the month, there needs to be specific strategies provided to educators on how to embed STEM and maker activities into their curriculum. A good number of educators have not received training on how to integrate activities into their classroom practices which entail resource heavy, hands-on learning.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2019
Of all the learning trends of the past 20 years, one of the most sweeping and impactful has been the rise of the maker movement. And that means that the aching rift between what people say they believe and where they put their money widened last week. After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls.
The Principal of Change
JUNE 9, 2019
Notice the title of the post…”The Importance of Classroom Observations.” When you hear the term, do you think of observing and evaluating teachers or of the logistics of the space? To me, the term means something different, and it is more of an evaluation of administration than it is of teachers. Let me explain… When I worked as a principal and eventually at central office, I would often take my laptop into classrooms with the permission of a teacher and simply sit in the
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