Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom: The Driving Question and PBL, Part 1 By Michael Gorman published 29 March 19 The Driving Question or Investigative Question in Project Based learning and STEM can be often the hardest concept to get across to teachers.
Tip of the Week: Forget the Gym. These 5 New Year’s Resolutions Are What You Really Need By Glenn Wiebe published 6 February 19 It’s never too late to make a few 2019 social studies resolutions.
Verso Learning Launches New Student-Teacher Feedback Tools at FETC By TL Editors published 24 January 19 Verso Learning, provider of classroom feedback and collaboration tools, will be showcasing their education tools at this year’s upcoming FETC conference.
Revised 5E-Hero's Journey Lesson Planning Template! By Ramsey Musallam published 18 January 19 I have written to annoying lengths about my love for the connection between the 5E Inquiry Learning Cycle and Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey.
Reflection in Education By Guest Author Suzy Brooks published 4 December 18 There are many ways technology can help teachers see themselves and their practice more clearly.
5 Levels of Difficulty Videos: Alternative Assessment Inspiration By Ramsey Musallam published 21 November 18 It reminded me how explaining a difficult concept to a novice and expert audience simultaneously requires deep conceptual knowledge, and how listening to such an explanation helps to build simultaneous conceptual and mechanical knowledge of a concept.
Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation Awards Grant to The Reading League By TL Editors published 30 October 18
Gale Aligns PD eBook Collections to Danielson Framework for Teaching By TL Editors published 16 October 18
Move Your Kids Past Simply Consuming Virtual Reality. They Need to be Making It. Tour Creator Can Help By Glenn Wiebe published 12 October 18
Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model By Micah Shippee published 9 October 18 We cannot approach supporting our colleagues with a mindset that says “Ugh. They are doing it wrong!” perhaps followed by “AGAIN!” We must do our best to understand the context in which our colleagues operate, what motivates them to teach, and how we might serve them best.
Developing A Community High School - Lessons from @BrotherAmouzou at #TLTechLive By Lisa Nielsen published 8 October 18
Teacher: Know Thyself – School Culture Shift is About the People By Micah Shippee published 24 September 18 Every good quest-adventure story has a team of contributors, each with a special skill set that contributes to the team’s successes.
Innovativeness is the Pedagogy for the Future #edtech #wanderlustEDU By Micah Shippee published 19 September 18 We must allow technology to amplify good instructional practice, rather than tell us what good practice is.
New, SIMPLIFIED, Student Portfolio System (or "feeling the fear of not being 'innovative' enough this year") By Ramsey Musallam published 22 August 18
New Teacher Center and Nearpod Partner in New Teacher Professional Development By TL Editors published 21 August 18
21 Things Every 21st Century Educator Should Try This Year (2018 Version) By Carl Hooker published 9 August 18
Trying it out… Investigating… Testing… Researching… Practice what I Preach… Modeling By Silvia Tolisano published 25 July 18