teachers
Do My Students Still Need Me?
I'm a teacher and whereas I used to think my students couldn't learn without me, I'm no longer so sure. Recently I found myself asking the question, "do my students still need me?"
The Art of Teaching Science
If only teaching K-12 science was itself a science – assess student knowledge deficits and remedy them. So here’s a new tool for any teacher who’s spent evenings and weekends trying to find a lesson that’s the perfect fit for their class: it’s called MOSART...
Appreciate Teachers by Providing Opportunities for Support
This year when I pondered teacher appreciation, Mr. Lambrecht came to the forefront of my mind. A dynamic and lively instructor, he didn't buy into our drama.
DLN Paper Shows How Blended Learning Can Improve Teaching Profession
Digital Learning Now! (DLN), a national campaign under ExcelinEd, today released the seventh white paper in the DLN Smart Series -- “Improving Conditions & Careers: How Blended Learning Can Improve the Teaching Profession.”
What Teachers Really Want
If teachers are to transition to the kind of blended learning that has been found to work best for today’s kids, we need trust, time, and trained mentors to work out what what we need to do.
Vote! American Pioneer of Teaching Award
PublicSchoolOptions.org President Beth Purcell, a parent and former teacher, announced the organization’s annual American Pioneer of Teaching Award contest here in a guest post. After narrowing the nominations down to 10 innovative finalists, they have turned the competition over to the online community to vote for the winner on Facebook.
What are Teachers Responsible For?
Where does the current emphasis on accountability come from? I think it comes from a desperate need for equity and justice – from the awareness that has been raised by the national high-stakes testing of students that there is a very real and tragic difference in the outcomes of poor students versus those that are more affluent.
Innovative MOOC Spearheads the “Digital Learning Transition” for Leaders
The Alliance for Excellent Education and Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University have teamed up to pioneer a brand new style of Massive Online Open Course for Educators (MOOC-Ed).
Brush Up Your Shakespeare!
No one could be more surprised than I was when one of my sixth-graders said, after we had slogged through Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 29” at the end of our poetry unit, “Hey, this is fun. Shakespeare ought to be an elective.”
Movie Review: Why are America’s Students Failing at Math?
It is not a difficult question to answer, a lot of students hate math. I know “hate” is a strong word, but when some children are asked about math, they start to sweat, shut down, and avoid math at all costs, due to negative experiences in the past.