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10 Specific Ideas To Gamify Your Classroom
Specific Ideas To Gamify Your Classroom by Mike Acedo In today’s classroom, educators are constantly required to mold their teaching methods to give students the best opportunity to succeed. It is not only imperative for students to learn the required material, but...
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The Language Of The Maker Movement: 38 Terms For Teachers
Language Of The Maker Movement: 38 Terms For Teachers As the maker movement in culture moves from MacGyver jokes and what Noah did when Allie left him in The Notebook to something with a bit more academic and cognitive credibility, it has also begun to creep in to the...
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A Simple, Open-Ended Assignment: Explain When You’re Creative
A Simple, Open-Ended Assignment: Explain When You're Creative by Danielle Shanley, Director of Curriculum & Instruction for the New Milford Public Schools Below is an assignment recently given to a 10th grade classroom. The assignment was inspired by Ken Robinson's...
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Teaching Social Justice: 25 Books To Encourage Students To Change The World
Teaching Social Justice: 25 Books To Encourage Students To Change The World by Ashley McCann What are the kinds of ideas that convince people that they can change the world? What about students--what kinds of inspiration or knowledge or confidence or vision do they...
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32 Tips For Building Better Relationships With Students
32 Tips For Building Relationships With Students by TeachThought Staff Building relationships with students isn’t always simple, but it’s crucial to the well-being and academic growth of all students. Part of the reason it’s not, in fact, ’simple’ is because every...
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10 Conversations That Can Start Your Next Project-Based Learning Unit
10 Conversations That Can Start Your Next Project-Based Learning Unit contributed by John Otterstedt In the world of project-based learning, the big projects get the headlines. That point was reaffirmed to me this weekend when I was swept up in the 2013 documentary...
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