There are many ways to have a parent teacher conference and yes, they are necessary but what if I told you parent teacher conferences are changing. Conferences usually suggest reporting which hinders a two way form of communication
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McGraw-Hill Education has published it! It’s here! It’s here! This new program is called StudySync, while only catering to grades 4th-12th, this new comprehensive, full year curriculum provides materials for both the teacher and the learner
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Periscope is a new app that is connected to twitter. This app allows you to braodcast video’s from anywhere in the world! It was developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein
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Are you counting down the days until summer like me? Well, with only a few weeks left it’s hard to imagine the finish line, but it’s almost here
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Is your kindergartner or first grade student having trouble with Phonemic Awareness? Do they need understanding that speech is made up of distinct yet identifiable sounds.
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AltSchool is a new school this year with a mission of combining Montessori and a School of One. NPR calls it the school for 2030. Who would have thought of this amazing thing, well former Google start-up Max Ventilla did!
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It’s nice to have a teacher appreciation week, but there must be ongoing appreciation throughout the year. How did you get celebrated this week? Please post some ways you were celebrated?
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To have your students design something from scratch taps into their ability to create, innovate, and invent. Project based Learning is one way to do this! Project Based Learning is an approach that challenges students to learn through engagement in a real problem
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Let’s support our digital natives and enhance their skills! Let’s just do it! Dr. Scott McLeod states in his blog on Dangerously Irrelevant, Technology, Leadership, and the future of schools.
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This is a controversial topic but a mandatory one. In New York there is a boycott of state testing at least 155,000 students opted out of assessments. “With the addition of these high stakes attached to the teacher evaluations, really just took it over the top
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In schools we rave about technology and how it supports learning, in which I totally agree. Technology is a great tool that extends learning for students and enables them to search quickly for information.
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Many teachers are stressed out, but my heart goes to teachers of charter and non-union schools. In my many years of teacher training,
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Put technology in kids’ hands as early as possible and let them drive the initiative forward, says Professor Katie Morrow. Wow, to have students involved in planning? What an idea! At the University of Kentucky professor Nash developed Design Thinking which is sort of what Morrow is implying.
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Yes! Blended learning is what we are moving towards because no-one gets left behind. Many teachers use technology to support students in many ways schools are adopting programs that are online while mixing it with face-to-face teaching
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How do you introduce new concepts to your students? HOOK! HOOK! HOOK! Try introducing concepts that inspires and excite students! Take a look at this clip, is it interesting or engaging?
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teaching document explains how to provide high quality development for teachers to thrive. It goes over strategies for growing teams of teacher-leaders, tools for teachers to be successful in the classroom
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akiyyah Bergen created this Lesson Plan_ Oral History Project 9_11 (grades Pre-K-5) at Roxboro Middle School. Wow, this is a great way to bring in primary sources. I truly enjoy when students own their work
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What are your thoughts of “phenomenon teaching” or as some may call it “teaching by topic?” Finland is reforming its educational system. As we in the States are focusing our attention on the Common Core they are moving toward teaching by topic.
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In order to become a 21st century school it takes a visionary learner. A 21st century school needs a leader that will not be afraid to be creative and innovative as well as listen to their stakeholders
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Are 21st Century schools so far away from public schools that it’s hard for teachers and educators to imagine? Now don’t get me wrong, teachers want it, but how to get there is the challenge.
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