This post is part of a series tagged Education News and Controversy
Professionals in the field of education are using Twitter more than ever to share ideas and promote their businesses. My online publishing work has benefitted from two social media networks in particular. Using Twitter and Facebook to announce my writing has brought more readers [...]
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Twitter – Okay, so you know about Twitter. You probably even have an account but are you using it to get dynamite lesson plan ideas? Let me share a feature of Twitter that is absolutely essential for me. It is called “hashtags.” These are short [...]
The effective teacher uses creativity and other skills to work within the limitations of the job and produce growth in learners. In my opinion, this woman in the article decided to give up and leave teaching and therefore, teaching is no worse for her having left.
A table of contents to a powerful and proven teaching method called Explicit Direct Instruction, or EDI.
The question for a new teacher then becomes: How do I think of, create, and deliver dynamic lesson plans? In this post I give you three tools, there are many many others, to do just that.
A professional plumber knows where to look for a leak. A professional exterminator knows where the bugs hide. A dynamite professional teacher knows how to extract the important bits, or chunks, out of a lesson and drive them home. The goal of every lesson should always be 90-100% mastery. This goal is best achieved [...]
When you teach kids, a learning objective is like the train track you can’t deviate from. It keeps you focused and keeps your students minds from wandering away. It’s like the old adage: “If you aim at nothing, you’ll surely hit it.”
An example of what happens without an objective is like when you are having [...]
Is planning what’s most important? I have to answer a resounding, “yes.” The year has begune, we are a couple years into it and I can already see I am going to have to tweak every plan that has been given to me. This is not uncommon if you want to be successful [...]
Kids remember things when they have relevance to their lives. Using creativity to come up with what multiplication facts are important will raise test scores.
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