Category: Pedagogy

How Learning Should Be

“This is how learning should be,” she said. “It should be active, it should be engaging. It should use a variety of modalities. That’s...

Teaching is like theater

My old principal once made a comment that good teaching was like good theater; you got into character and at the end of the...

What is differentiation?

Differentiated instruction, also called differentiation, is a process through which teachers enhance learning by matching student characteristics to instruction and assessment. For ideas go...

Rules & Routines

When we are effective, the majority of kids are learning and getting what they need, goals and objectives are achieved, and we teachers feel...

Students educating themselves

[Students] may be experts in entertaining themselves online, but they know almost nothing about educating themselves online. Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » Clarifications on “A...

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

A Vision of K-12 Students Today (via bjnesbitt) Teach students to think, create, analyze, evaluate and apply. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Mac or PC doesn’t matter

Educators say the transition from notebook to Macbook will help students excel. “Whether it’s a Mac or a PC, that’s not the point. It’s...

Mastering Classroom Management

Mastering Classroom Management Teaching requires hard work, dedication, and practice.But we are up for the challenge. In a well-managed classroom, students can focus more...