How Can Teachers Use Flipped Learning For Students With Special Needs?
Flipped classes can be very effective for some types of students with special needs, and especially in high school.
In lower grades where students are still establishing their foundations in reading, writing, math and learning strategies, a child with special needs may struggle with the flipped classroom method, unless they have a lot of […]
Is Every Student In The Right Place?
In Chess, we try to place a piece in a location from where it can move and act in as many directions as possible. This is the optimum position for this piece. When you play chess, if you place each of your pieces in a place from which they can move in multiple […]
How can I use Popplet as a Mind mapping tool?
If one could enter a teacher’s brain and segregate all that they think about, one would probably find that the bulk of their mind space is occupied thinking of how they can organize their ideas and bits of information in a simple way. How do they keep track of the various connections […]
SELF-STUDY: Classroom Collaboration (5 hours)
“Cultivate a collaborative environment in the classroom.”
Implement collaborative learning in classrooms and develop successful learners. This framework enables teachers to recognize characteristics of collaborative classrooms, be aware of student and teacher roles, and practice group activities as an essential part of the classroom. Teachers are introduced to school-wide policy […]
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SELF-STUDY: Flipping Classrooms (5 hours)
“Explore how you can use technology to effectively ‘flip’ your classroom and enhance your students’ learning experience”
Harness technology to enhance students’ learning by examining successful strategies to “flip” classrooms. The flipped classroom approach prioritizes students’ needs beyond traditional teaching styles, while challenging teachers to employ innovative instructional methods. Students […]
Classroom Décor and Learning
A recent study, published in Psychological Science (2014), found that children in highly decorated classrooms are more distracted and make smaller learning gains compared to a minimally decorated classroom. The results are not surprising, as it aligns to what we now understand about the functioning of the brain, attention and sensory input.
What do […]
SELF-STUDY: Classroom Organization for the 21st Century (5 hours)
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Good teaching is both an art and a science. It requires a significant amount of planning, research, preparation, evaluation, and a whole lot of creativity. However, that doesn’t mean teachers need to sacrifice their personal and family life for education. The key to “doing […]
Is Daily Review Important?
Some teachers begin each class with a short review of what was studied in the previous class. This is an excellent practice. Neurophysiological studies show that one of the important components of learning is repetition or practice which helps to strengthen the connections of the wiring in the brain. This helps in retaining information or learning.
When certain key concepts […]
Making Accommodations
We talk and learn a lot about accommodating students in the classroom. We make lesson plans that allow for every student to participate and sometimes even talk to school administration about support with accommodations. However, when look outside of the classroom and into our own interactions it can sometimes be more difficult to […]
