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15 Mental Health Tips For Teachers
Today, the role of teachers is expanding to include more duties and responsibilities than ever before, including building emotionally strong and healthy students. However, society often neglects to address or even discuss the mental and emotional well-being of teachers themselves. This neglect has led to two major issues – teacher burn-out and a lack of skilled teachers available as a result.
3 Steps To More Effective Online Teaching
The complexities of online teaching and learning run deep. That said, let’s start with some basic steps to be sure we’re getting off on the right foot.
40 Homeschooling Tools And Resources I Use (Almost) Every Day
40 Homeschooling Tools And Resources I Use (Almost) Every Day by Terry Heick Okay, we may not use every single tool every single day but you get the idea: These are our favorite homeschooling tools and resources and we use them extensively. In fact, there's very...
5 Inquiry Modes And Their Effect On Student Ownership
The above framework from Sundberg & Moncada (1994), Ohlhorst (1995), D’Avanzo (1996), and Grant & Vatnick (1998) takes this idea of ownership and applies it to inquiry-based learning. The result is a kind of spectrum analyzing the nature of teaching inquiry, moving close-ended demonstration to open-ended inquiry and even collaboration with the researchers themselves.
25 Remote Teaching Tips To Engage Students In Distance Learning
As remote teaching and learning become more common–if not the standard in many places over the next six months–I thought it might be useful to offer some remote teaching tips to engage students in distance learning.
A Surprisingly Practical Extended Metaphor About Inequality In The Classroom
As far as the children on Team 1 know, their team has always been in first place. Always the best at this. These children didn’t do anything themselves to earn this, and in fact, some of them aren’t very good at fixing run-on sentences, but their team is so far ahead that it doesn’t matter. They would have to suddenly start losing many, many games in a row before there was any threat of them not being in first place.
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