6 Great Interactive Tools to Help Students in Their Writing
September 20, 2017 Below is a collection of some good student interactives from ReadWriteThink. These are tools to help students with their writing. They can use them to brainstorm ideas, develop an outline, take notes, map events in a story, organize information logically and many more. The tools are easy and simple to use and anything created on them can be printed and shared with others.
"Kids Can't Learn From Teachers They Don't Like"
1 minute read ‘Kids Can’t Learn From Teachers They Don’t Like’ by TeachThought Staff
You can create Magic in the Classroom – Metaverse AR Platform
Teachers, you and your students can create Augmented Reality Experiences without needing to write any code. Metaverse is a FREE Augmented Reality Platform that is being used by thousands of teachers to build all kinds of interactive learning experiences for their classrooms. Creating AR Experiences is easy, takes minutes, and anyone can do it. Experiences are built in Metaverse Studio by arranging components on a “storyboard” and linking them together. Hundreds of components can be combined to create almost anything.
8 Essentials For Earning Your Students' Respect Every School Year – Bored Teachers
This article was written by Adam Hatch - UC Berkeley graduate, son of a teacher, brother of a teacher, and a teacher himself. Adam started a unique English school in Taipei, Taiwan, where kids learn to research and write articles in English. The articles are published on the first ever English newspaper written by kids in Taiwan, called the Taipei Teen Tribune.
Using Literacy Skills to Solve Math Word Problems
When Concourse Village Elementary School (CVES) opened in 2013 in the wake of the planned phaseout of P.S. 385, which the New York City Department of Education had tagged with a D, students were struggling academically. “When we arrived, we found a major deficit across all content areas,” said incoming principal and school founder Alexa Sorden, who was particularly alarmed by the reading scores. “The first year was challenging because we were trying to come up with a plan and say, ‘OK, how are we going to make sure that all the children are reading on grade level so that they’re prepared?’” Sorden, a former literacy specialist and teacher, felt that a strong foundation in reading and writing underpinned success across all content areas—and she made it the school’s mission to be literacy-first. In mathematics, a subject area not traditionally associated with literacy, Concourse Village has developed an especially innovative model that reinforces both reading and computational skills.
A Range of Free, Downloadable, Writing Templates – EDTECH 4 BEGINNERS
I’ve made some writing frames, which are completely free to download (just right click and ‘save image as’, or find high quality PDFs by clicking this link). I hope they are useful 1) Narrow lined paper template:
Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later
Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. It was the early days of YouTube (then two-years old), and it was getting cheap and easy to make and post videos, so the two teachers—Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams—proposed shifting lectures to videos students would watch at home, and asking students to come to class prepared to problem solve with their peers. It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. A few years later, the concept lit up like rocket fuel thanks in part to the catchy name, along with fast-growing home internet connectivity and a shout-out in Sal Khan’s popular TED Talk. Or maybe it stemmed from the fact that anyone could get the gist of the teaching idea in the time it takes to rattle off a sound bite. “It’s a simple model,” says Bergmann.
10 Characteristics of Learner Centered Experiences
Education Reimagined defines the paradigm shift from teacher-centered to learner-centered as shifting how we see learners and their critical role in their own learning now, and throughout their lives. The critical shift is that “Learners are seen and known as wondrous, curious individuals with vast capabilities and limitless potential. This paradigm recognizes that learning is a lifelong pursuit and that our natural excitement and eagerness to discover and learn should be fostered throughout our lives, particularly in our earliest years.” When we focus on learners, connect to their interests, needs, and goals, we can create experiences that ignite curiosity, develop passion, and unleash genius.
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In order to maximize the benefits of ELT for students, I looked for ways to fine tune my approach to teaching individualized learning in my English language arts classroom. One of the instructional models that informs my approach to teaching individualized learning is the Readers and Writers Workshop. This approach proved very helpful in optimizing ELT.
In High School, the Kids Are Not All Right
I lost my first student to suicide not long ago. The student was no longer in my class at the time, nor even at the school, but I was flooded with the expected surge of feelings: overwhelming sadness, periodic despair, compulsive frame-by-frame replays of our every interaction. I felt the loss deeply.
Answers To “What Do You Do On The First Day Of School?”
Also, check out: Classroom Rules – Ways to Create, Introduce & Enforce Them Best Ways To Begin & End The School Year Important Advice On Classroom Rules From The New Yorker The First 6 Weeks: Strategies For Getting To Know Your Students is from Teach Thought.
Teaching & Assessing Soft Skills
The career landscape is changing dramatically. The Bureau of Labor Statistics states that the average worker currently holds ten different jobs before the age of forty. This requires a high degree of flexibility and adaptability. Students who leave high school with strong soft skills will work more harmoniously with others and be more successful tackling unfamiliar tasks.
Student Choice in the Classroom
Are you looking to engage students on a whole new level? Harnessing the power of choice in the classroom may be what you need. While this is proven through research, sometimes it can be difficult to transfer best practice research to something tangible (and possible) in the classroom. In the book The Highly Engaged Classroom, Dr. Robert Marzano explains why student choice is essential in our classrooms, and he offers tips for teachers on how to incorporate choice in practical ways.
15 Reflection Strategies To Help Students Retain What You Just Taught Them -
15 Reflection Strategies To Help Students Retain What You Just Taught Them by Terry Heick Reflection is a natural part of learning. We all think about new experiences–the camping on the car ride home, the mistakes made in a game, or the emotions felt while finishing a long-term project that’s taken months to complete.
