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10 Challenges Deaf Students Face in the Classroom
By: Marilyn L. Weber. Here are 10 challenges that deaf and hard-of-hearing students often face in the classroom, along with guidelines for teachers on how to mitigate them.
The Advantages to Different Mentoring Paths on Robotics Teams
By: Dr. Nathan Dolenc. K-12 robotics programs have become increasingly popular in the past decade, and having mentors for students is an important part of the learning process. Here are the advantages to both high and low mentor involvement on these teams.
7 Ways to Maximize Student Engagement
Once you have your students’ attention on the first day of school, how do you keep it? Here are a few best practices from teachers and administrators across the nation to help keep that engagement level all year.
How to Motivate Your Student For Back-to-School
By: Letise Dennis. From the youngest to the oldest in your household, they all have unique and individual motivational factors. So this year, when preparing for back-to-school, try these ideas for getting K12 students motivated based on their age.
15 Actionable Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation and Engagement
By: Terri Eichholz. Although it seems paradoxical for teachers to extrinsically motivate students to intrinsically motivate themselves, here are 15 ideas to help students own their own learning and success.
Three Toolkits To Help Maximize Student Learning & Engagement
By: Gillian Judson. Since emotion directs learning, but doesn't often take center stage in curriculum discussions, here are three toolkits to help teachers engage emotion with their curriculum content for more powerful student learning.
The One Chart You Need to Help HigherEd Learners Succeed
By: Gunnar Counselman. I stumbled into a profound insight about personalized education and student value that fits on a single chart and can be the foundation of a college’s student success strategy.
The Danger of Designing Lessons for Thinkers
By: Gillian Judson. Instead of approaching teaching with a view of students as mostly or primarily thinkers, I encourage all teachers to re-imagine their students as the "perfinkers" that they are.
Cultivating Mindfulness in the Classroom
Teaching kids skills like meditation and integrating practices can help them develop mindfulness throughout the school day. Here are several resources to help calm their bodies and activate their minds in the classroom.
9 Ideas for Combatting Boredom in School (and Why Being Bored May Not Be All Bad)
I recently asked friends and educators: What’s the opposite of boredom? What are ways we can combat boredom? And finally, should we? Here are the nine responses, takeaways and helpful tips I received.