The 7 Most Common Learning Types
Education had a remarkable epiphany long ago. Simply put, there are a whole lot of learners in our classrooms and they don’t all learn the same way. This recognition of diversity in learning types has transformed teaching for the better in every way. Consequently, we can tailor instruction and assessment to meet the needs of individual learners, and help them make the most meanngful connections to what we teach. Our different learning types should be nurtured and celebrated, and identifying their characteristics can help make this happen. Take some pointers from this simple and informative infographic from Acadoceo called 7 Different Types Of Learning Styles.
What your child can learn from writing a letter to Santa
Opinion By Misty Adoniou Updated I have a drawer full of letters to Santa.
Inspiring inquiry through picture books. — KATH MURDOCH
"The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone." — Shel Silverstein
McREL Blog: Balancing the Common Core: Leveled readers vs. complex text
The art of teaching requires many careful balancing acts, and implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for literacy offers an opportunity for one more. We’ve heard a lot about the CCSS’ focus on complex texts; however, this doesn’t mean texts matched to students’reading levels aren’t still important. It takes both to build competent and fluent readers. Elementary classrooms and libraries across the country are filled with leveled readers, or books categorized into reading levels. During literacy blocks, many teachers carefully and systematically ensure that each student is assigned to a reading group or given a selection of texts for independent reading based on his or her assessed reading level.
8 Classroom EdTech Strategies That Develop Critical Thinking Skills
Educational technology, or edtech, has revolutionized the classroom by improving learning efficiency and efficacy. Used wisely, edtech strategies help students develop vital critical thinking skills, and can change the paradigms of education. Here are eight specific ways classroom tech can help students develop their critical thinking.
Writing tips from four Aussie authors and a New Yorker veteran - RN
Updated "If it interests me it goes in and if it doesn't interest me it stays out … that's a rather rude criterion, but I don't have any other." Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee began writing non-fiction for the New Yorker in 1963, and started teaching writing at Princeton in 1975, so it's safe to say he's speaking from experience.
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Fertile questions are questions that are deep, complex, and perfect for inquiry. Because they are rich, finding answers to them requires research and can take some time. Find out how to use these questions with your students. Characteristics of fertile questions Fertile questions have some or most of the following characteristics: Open — they have no one, definitive answer but rather several different and possibly competing answers.
What's wrong with CA reading list
By Mark Bauerlein Mark Bauerlein is a professor in the Department of English at Emory University and the author of The Dumbest Generation : How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future; Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30. Last month, the California Department of Education issued Recommended Literature: Pre-Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve , an updated reading list of books for teachers of English, science, and social studies to use in their classrooms. The press release states that the list will “help students meet the new Common Core State Standards,” which were adopted by the State of California on August 10, 2010. To produce the list, the Department of Education convened teachers, librarians, administrators, curriculum experts, and college professors who deliberated and crafted the final tally, which Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson declared “a vital resource for students, teachers and parents.” Why?
Using “unlock the chest!” puzzles to develop out-of-class learning
Overview Obtain a date padlock (day / month / year), and set it to the exact date of a particular historical event. Use this to lock a chest, inside of which should be placed an illustrated sheet of information about the event in question. This sheet should clearly state that this needs to be read carefully, then brought to the teacher – who will then ask a series of questions about its content. Answering these questions correctly will be rewarded with a prize.
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Primary sources — how to use them
Primary sources are a powerful teaching and learning tool. Find out what they are, how to find quality, trusted primary sources, and how to use them effectively and responsibly Primary sources are original, first-hand, often unedited records of an event. They are created as people experience events and record what they saw, heard, and felt. Primary sources are characterised by their content, regardless of their format. A primary source can be a:
