Honing Students’ Speaking Skills | Edutopia
Some guidelines for teaching all students to speak credibly and confidently—an essential skill for college and career success. Read the article here: Honing Students’ Speaking Skills | Edutopia Advertisements
Neuroscience, Behaviour and Motivation
Our friends at Edutopia, and Judy Willis in particular, have put together this short paper on using neuroscientific principles to ensure that students are engaged and motivated across the span … Continue reading
8 Proactive Classroom Management Tips for New Teachers | Edutopia
New teachers — and experienced ones too — can find ideas here on how to stop disruptive behavior before it begins. In the 1950s, psychologists Jacob Kounin and Paul Gump … Continue reading
60-Second Strategy: 7-Minute Writes | YouTube
Looking for a simple way to get your students writing? Try a low-stakes timed exercise.
15+ Strategies to Help Build Self-Regulation Skills
Source: 15+ Strategies to Help Build Self-Regulation Skills
Helping Students Use Improvement Plans to Develop Self-Regulation | Edutopia
Guiding students to create on an ongoing cycle of growth in self-regulation starts with having them set explicit goals for themselves. Self-regulation is a skill that takes a long time … Continue reading
Why gaming is coming to this school’s curriculum | BBC News
Newsbeat has been to visit the first school in the UK to introduce gaming into its curriculum. See the full story here: Why gaming is coming to this school’s curriculum … Continue reading
SLANT Listening
The problem with listening is that too many people listen, simply with the intention of finding the gap with which to interject their own opinions. Deep listening, when you are … Continue reading
5 Ways to Get Girls into STEM | Edutopia
Engineering consultant and author Karen Purcell stresses the importance of capturing young girls’ interest in STEM subjects and career paths, offering five strategies to make this happen. …the lack of … Continue reading
The Value of the Comic Book Format in Learning
I recently waxed lyrical about a piece of software I’ve worked with over the last decade called Comic Life. It is the simplest and most powerful piece of software I’ve … Continue reading
Roald Dahl Day Lesson – The Power of Words | BBC Teach
Join BBC Teach in celebrating Roald Dahl Day on Friday, 13th September 2019, with a very special interactive lesson and digital event aimed at primary school pupils aged 7 to … Continue reading
Summer holiday activities and things to do with children | BBC Teach
The long summer holidays are here and with them the question of how to fill all that time. As what seems like endless weeks stretch out in front of you, … Continue reading
Flexible Classrooms: Research Is Scarce, But Promising | Edutopia
An ambitious study of 153 classrooms in the United Kingdom provides the best evidence that flexible spaces can boost academic performance. Read the full article here: Flexible Classrooms: Research Is … Continue reading
7 Outstanding K–8 Flexible Classrooms | Edutopia
K–8 educators from across America provide a peek at their classrooms—and explain how they managed the transformations. See the full article here: 7 Outstanding K–8 Flexible Classrooms | Edutopia
Reflections on Shifting to a Flexible Classroom | Edutopia
A middle school teacher shares the benefits of giving students voice and choice in their learning environment. Read the full article here: Reflections on Shifting to a Flexible Classroom | Edutopia
The Learning Pyramid – Teach What You Learn
In this example of the cone of learning and retention, the flat figure has been transposed into a pyramid and the suggestion is that the volume of each layer graphically … Continue reading
How Personalized Learning Unlocks Student Success | Educause
Technology provides higher education with tools that can tailor the learning experience to the individual, help at-risk students master core skills, and develop guided pathways that assess students’ progress toward … Continue reading
50+ De-escalation Strategies | Pathway 2 Success
See the full list here: 50+ De-escalation Strategies | Pathway 2 Success
19 Big and Small Classroom Management Strategies | Edutopia
The year I started teaching seventh- to twelfth-grade English in Minneapolis, Prince launched his song about urban ruin, “Sign o’ the Times.” That song was an apt musical backdrop for … Continue reading
Blended Learning: Some Considerations
How do we take advantage of educational technology in learning? This infographic gives some consideration to the parameters that need to be addressed. In many classrooms, the rather unsubtle reality … Continue reading
Broomlands Primary: Does a ‘stunning school’ help learning? | BBC News
At first glance, it looks like a giant crown sitting on top of the grass or a spacecraft that has landed in a traditional Borders market town. Whatever it might … Continue reading
Careers lessons push up GCSE grades | BBC News
Teenagers taught about the world of work are more motivated to get higher GCSE results, say researchers. A careers charity study found pupils who heard directly from employers about the … Continue reading
Handy Tips to Make Students More Attentive | EduLearn2Change
How can you keep your students focused along the whole lesson ? Here are handy tips to make students more attentive and thus enhance their learning: Handy Tips to Make … Continue reading
25 Recycling Activities for the Classroom | WeAreTeachers
Help your students take recycling to a whole new level in your classroom with these inspiration ideas and projects. See the full list here: 25 Recycling Activities for the Classroom … Continue reading
Masking Behaviours
Thanks to our friends at GoZen! for this timely insight into behaviours and what might be underlying them: 8 Ways A Child’s Anxiety Shows Up as Something Else | GoZen!
Reluctant learners (students and teachers) and what you can do about them…
In any educational setting there will be learners who are not fully engaged in the learning process for a variety of reasons. If you have led an INSET session, you … Continue reading
Gamification: Changing the Ground Rules For Learning
Much has been written about the subject of gamification in learning. It covers a massive scope of developments. At one end of the spectrum is included artificial intelligence, online … Continue reading
