How Can Teachers Use STEM To Improve Curriculum And Instruction?
Give your students STEM-focussed education to equip them for the challenges of the future…
All students deserve an education that helps them to succeed in today’s technology-rich, global society. STEM-focused education helps to achieve this goal. The purpose of STEM education in educational institutions is to collaborate on the best pedagogy and curriculum to […]
How can Teachers Implement Inquiry Based Learning in the Classroom?
Involve your students and lead them to understand with Inquiry Based Learning…
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is an approach to education that places students’ questions, ideas and observations at the center of the learning experience.
The nature of an IBL activity, the process, the end product and how it is shared is dependent upon the developmental […]
How Can Teachers Help Students Strengthen Basic Academic Skills?
Teachers have the potential to strengthen their effectiveness as interventionists…
Teachers have always attempted to provide struggling students in their classrooms with additional, individualized support; that is the paradigm of good teaching. Recent research suggests that teachers have the potential to strengthen their effectiveness as interventionists for individual students even as they continue to […]
How Can Teachers Implement A Collaborative Assessment?
Promote dynamic learning for your students while provoking critical thinking…
In the 21st century workplace, the collaborative system of learning is being promoted and implemented on a large scale. Very few professions and work environments focus only on individual competencies. Most modern work environments involve some type of collaboration or connected problem-solving to enhance […]
An “A” For Effort
During my own years in high school, I had many teachers with differing ideas and opinions for how to evaluate and score student work. There were teachers who gave everyone an “A” for “effort.” Then, there were the teachers who made students do much work to earn above an average score of “C.” […]
How Can Teachers Build a Quality Lesson Plan?
Lesson plans help teachers provide an effective learning experience for their students
A lesson plan is the instructor’s road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during the class time. After planning the unit and sequencing the learning experience, the next step focuses on developing individual lessons. […]
How can Teachers Identify a Child’s Cognitive Ability/Potential for Better Learning Outcomes?
The key to solving a persistent learning challenge is to strengthen the person’s basic processing or cognitive skill set…
Cognitive skills are the mental capabilities we need to successfully learn academic subjects. Underlying Without these skills we would not be able to process the information we receive cognitive skills must function well for […]
How Can Teachers Effectively Engage Students With ADHD?
Teaching methods and behavior strategies must reach every student in the classroom…
Hyperactive students tend to have a very high energy level, act impulsively and can be behaviorally distracting. They may fidget, play with objects, tap pencils so loudly against their desk that kids from across the room look over at them, or blurt […]
What Is The “Hands-Off” Approach To Learning?
A good teacher teaches as little as possible, while modeling behaviors of how to figure something out…
Creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, initiative and self-direction – these are just some of the 21st-century skills teachers strive to develop in students to ensure lifelong, active learning.
The truth, in reality, is that with […]
Social Networking
As technology innovations seem to be ever-growing, so does the use of social media in the classroom. While it may not be commonplace to have your students use Instagram or Snapchat to snap photos while in class, sites like Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest are being used in the classroom more frequently.
Years ago, if […]
