4 Ways to Get Students Involved in Monitoring Their Progress
Progress monitoring is the process of tracking student learning over time. It is an important tool for teachers to use to identify students who are struggling and to provide them with the support they need. However, progress monitoring is something that students should be doing themselves as...
Teaching Students Empathy Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. It is a critical skill for students to develop, as it allows them to build relationships with their peers, resolve conflicts, and make sound decisions.
Unfortunately, many students lack empathy. This is due to a...
4 Teaching Strategies to Make Math Less Dreadful
Math is a subject that many students dread. It can be challenging, abstract, and seemingly unrelated to the real world. As a result, many students develop a negative attitude towards math, which can make it even more difficult to learn.
There are a number of reasons why students may find math...
The Surprising Key to Student Talk
By Connie Hamilton
When learners need to improve their reading skills, we teach reading skills. When they need to develop their math strategies, we teach math strategies. If they need to refine their blending skills in art, we teach them to blend. So it’s obvious when students need to ramp...
Create a Legacy Learning Experience
By James Alan Sturtevant
I teach curriculum design to future educators. Each semester, I conduct an interesting experiment. Students speculate about how they would perform if they were forced to retake last semester’s finals.
“Could you match your performance?” I’ll ask.
...To Assign Homework … Or Not?
By Elizabeth Jorgensen
As teachers, we value work/life balance. It makes us better practitioners.
At work, we:
- collaborate with colleagues
- assist students
- plan lessons
- contact parents
- write letters of recommendation
- teach
- attend IEP meetings
- provide feedback on student work
- and more! ...
Engaging Students With Inexpensive Supplies
By Casey Ewy
So many times, as an educator, I get caught up in the "big wow" of a lesson. I plan for days to develop an amazing hook, a captivating activity, and an engaging way to assess progress. I find myself overwhelmed, burned out, and exhausted by the day-to-day wow-ness of it all.
Don't...
Dear Educators, How Deeply Are We Listening?
By Sarah Strong
The Difficulties We Face
The challenges at our school echo throughout my Twitter feed and through my many conversations with educator friends who are expressing a new depth of hurt and challenge this year about our student communities.
It's gotten me thinking about how we listen...
Simple Classroom Space Changes That Make a World of Difference
By Karen Terwilliger
When deciding to set up learning centers, teachers might feel they need to make a huge change in the look of the classroom for it to work. They might feel like the task is too big and takes too much time to do.
These limiting thoughts might discourage teachers from even...
Become a Guide on the Side with Student Learning Centers
Too often, when I walked into secondary classrooms as an instructional coach or leader, I was disheartened to find students sitting in rows, not truly engaging with the material being presented.
It was evident that the teachers loved their content and some students loved...
