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Are your lessons and units in need of some flavor? Spice up your instructional planning process with these fun resources!
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Bring the "new year, new me" mentality into your classroom with these 4 activities. Coaching, Student Voice, Middle School Teachers, Professional Development, Teaching Middle School, Teaching Tips, Student, Students, Teaching English
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Re-Energize Your Classroom in the New Year
Bring the "new year, new me" mentality into your classroom with these 4 activities.
Maybe it doesn't have to be either too much homework or none at all. Research shows it's all about finding a happy medium. Perspective, Art, Leadership, Play, High School, Student Performance, Effective Learning, Instructional Strategies, High School Education
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Research Trends: Why Homework Should Be Balanced
Maybe it doesn't have to be either too much homework or none at all. Research shows it's all about finding a happy medium.
Get movin' in the classroom by using instructional carousels to facilitate discussions. Middle School English, Reading, Instructional Coaching, Instructional Planning, High School Activities, School Activities, Teaching Resources
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Thinking on Their Feet: Instructional Carousels
Get movin' in the classroom by using instructional carousels to facilitate discussions.
If you could ask one famous person from history to be a guest speaker in your class, who would you choose? Writing Prompts, Teaching History, Reader Response, 8th Grade Writing, Love My Job, History Class, 8th Grade History, Lesson, Public Speaking
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If you could ask one famous person from history to be a guest speaker in your class, who would you choose?
A third grade class asked why their state, Rhode Island, had no official state insect when 46 other states did. What happened next will inspire you to turn your traditional units of study into deeper learning experiences. Ideas, Study Unit, Professional Learning, Project Based Learning, Curriculum Development, Teaching Upper Elementary, Upper Elementary
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Turn Traditional Units of Study Into Deeper Learning Experiences
A third grade class asked why their state, Rhode Island, had no official state insect when 46 other states did. What happened next will inspire you to turn your traditional units of study into deeper learning experiences.
Check out these researched-based, best teaching practices and share with us the ways you already use them in your classroom. Effective Teaching Strategies, Effective Teaching, Mastery Learning, Teaching Strategies, Formative Assessment, Teaching Practices
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5 Highly Effective Teaching Practices
Check out these researched-based, best teaching practices and share with us the ways you already use them in your classroom.
"If differentiated instruction is viewed as part of the planning process, the additional planning time is not noticeably different." Teaching Social Studies, Life Skills Special Education, Teacher Leader, Differentiation Strategies
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There's No Time to Differentiate: Myth-Busting DI, Part 2
"If differentiated instruction is viewed as part of the planning process, the additional planning time is not noticeably different."
Spoiler alert - The purpose of assessment is really to understand what our students have learned, and to present it to ourselves and our students in a way that we can all see who has learned what. Educational Insights, Student Learning, Secondary Education, Summative Assessment, Student Success
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What's the Point of Assessment?
Spoiler alert - The purpose of assessment is really to understand what our students have learned, and to present it to ourselves and our students in a way that we can all see who has learned what.
22 resources for teachers. Videos, Teacher Resources, Teachers, Veterans Day, Patriotic Art, Memorial Day, School Projects, Teaching Citizenship, Elementary Teaching
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Memorial Day in the Classroom: Resources for Teachers
22 resources for teachers.
Tips for creating visually engaging rubrics from Edutopia's own @huckyeah Instructional Design, Teaching Career, Assessment For Learning, Formative And Summative Assessment, Teaching Tools, Teacher Blogs
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4 Easy Tips and Tricks for Creating Visually Engaging Rubrics
Tips for creating visually engaging rubrics from Edutopia's own @huckyeah
What the research says...
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Matt Davis highlights free and easy-to-implement classroom resources to celebrate Women's History Month in March. Vintage Posters, Vintage, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Illustrators, People, Propaganda Posters, We Can Do It, Equality
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Women’s History Month: 6 Lesson Plan Resources for Teachers
Matt Davis highlights free and easy-to-implement classroom resources to celebrate Women's History Month in March.
By teaching students to "drive their own brain" through metacognition, we provide a concrete way to guide them to think about how they can best learn. Education, Edutopia, Psicologia, Kinder, Pedagogy, Metacognition, Onderwijs, Libros
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Metacognition: The Gift That Keeps Giving
By teaching students to "drive their own brain" through metacognition, we provide a concrete way to guide them to think about how they can best learn.
By inviting her class to choose their own subjects for a historical reformers project, this teacher learned a lot about her students' interests and passions. Middle School History, Social Studies Middle School, Social Studies Teacher, Social Studies Unit, Teaching High School, History Classroom
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"Can't I Just Choose My Own Topic?"
By inviting her class to choose their own subjects for a historical reformers project, this teacher learned a lot about her students' interests and passions.
Find out why a gold standard in PBL is necessary and how teachers, school leaders, and others can contribute to the conversation around its development. Secondary School Science, Integrated Curriculum, High School Science, Genius Hour, School Leader
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What Should "Gold Standard" PBL Include?
Find out why a gold standard in PBL is necessary and how teachers, school leaders, and others can contribute to the conversation around its development.