Potential Signs of a Sensory Processing Disorder in Learners
This goes under the heading of looking for patterns in behaviours… Advertisements
Teachers And Those Magical OK Go Videos: A Match Made In Science? | NPR
If you’re a rock band, and thousands of teachers and students are using your hugely popular music videos in the classroom, why not help them out? Sure, OK Go is … Continue reading
Attention Please! Getting on Task
You may be surprised at what I am going to share with you today, but it has serious focus and purpose. It has been traditional to think of the teacher … Continue reading
The Timeless Wisdom of Sitting in Rows | teacherhead
Thanks to Ian Yorston for bringing this article to my attention… Some of the strangest debates or memes about education that pop up now and then are about the idea … Continue reading
Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution | Learning {Re}imagined | Medium
A fascinating article from Graham Brown Martin on the impact of technology on learning… Learning to thrive in a transforming world. Read the full article here: Education and the Fourth … Continue reading
Attachment Disorders – The Difficult-to-Teach Child
One of the things that really distressed me as a teacher was that such was the clamour to delivery curriculum content, the specific learning needs of the child were often … Continue reading
Tony Swainston on a Positive Mindset
My online friend Tony Swainston has some useful advice about Mindset for learners and teachers in his new book: Read more here, where you can download a 5 page extract from … Continue reading
How to Discipline Without Stress, Punishment, or Rewards | ThoughtCo
How can we discipline students, so we as teachers can do our jobs and teach these young children who refuse to learn? People are not changed by other people. People can … Continue reading
Free Printables Archives | WeAreTeachers.com
Free printables and free downloads for your classroom! You won’t want to miss these free teacher resources that you and your students will love. Make your teacher life easier with … Continue reading
Careers of Passion
An interesting article validating research that most teachers could confirm from their own experience… that passion is as important as subject knowledge in supporting young people in developing excellent careers. … Continue reading
Restorative Justice: Suspensions Don’t Teach
The pathway to escalating responses to poor behaviour in schools is when all in-house methods have been exhausted, or when a single incident has been seen to be of a … Continue reading
Some Principles in Designing Learning Spaces – Rosen Bosch
When working on the Building Schools for the Future programme we always used to talk about learning spaces, even when teachers talked about classrooms. The standard classroom can be a … Continue reading
Compassion as a Classroom Tool: an article by Andrea Marshbank
If the first year of teaching leads you to a single conclusion, it should be this… that being fair is more important than being right. Too many new entrants to … Continue reading
Close Reading – Read Like a Detective
WeAreTeachers have created two posters – one for teachers and one for students – that explain close reading in more detail. Source: Understanding Close Reading: Download our Infographic Now! | … Continue reading
A Skill Strong Readers Share | Edutopia
Metacognition helps readers analyze texts as they read, and it’s a skill you can teach your students. Read all about it here: A Skill Strong Readers Share | Edutopia
Visualizing 21st-Century Classroom Design | Edutopia
These five steps are essential in creating a 21st-century classroom: establishing zones, ensuring resource accessibility, encouraging mobility, igniting inspiration, and fostering respect. Source: Visualizing 21st-Century Classroom Design | Edutopia
The Layout of Your Classroom Determines the Effectiveness of the Learning
To return to an earlier theme regarding the paucity of learning vision of many heads, this often manifests itself with regards to learning architecture and classroom furniture. Too often the … Continue reading
Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice
When first appointed to the leadership team of an inner city school, I was struck by the abrasiveness of relationships and recourse to abuse and violence amongst the students. Too … Continue reading
RE:THINKING: A New Film Focuses on How to Get Thinking Back in Classrooms
You would think that explorations of the process of thinking would be central to the experience of every child passing through the school system. However, you would, for the most … Continue reading
Wellbeing in Australia
In what appears to be an increasingly dystopian world, personal integrity and resilience become more important in the development of children. Rather than hoping life experience will give young people … Continue reading
The Importance of Relationships in Learning
The quality of the relationships you have with students, and not your subject knowledge will determine the impact you can have on student learning argues Rebecca Alger. Read more: Relationships … Continue reading
Getting Students Writing
An excellent report from John MacCarthy on igniting the passions of students through creative writing assignments… A teacher taught a lesson on telling a Six-Word Story. There are websites that … Continue reading
The Pedagogy of Poverty by Martin Haberman
Much gratuitous comment is generated regarding the ability of urban students to learn successfully. It has become something of a political football with the right believing they only have to … Continue reading
How to Design a School That Prioritizes Kindness and Caring | MindShift
It says much about the state of our society when you need to start explicitly trying to build kindness into your school’s DNA. How far has capitalism taken us … Continue reading
Set to Fail – The Reluctant Learners
We’ve all been there as teachers… the Year 9 student who oozes negativity, seems determined to disrupt the learning of others and drives you to distraction with every comment. My … Continue reading
