Teaching: Do We Have the Time?
One concern I have with teaching science is that I want to do inquiry-based assignments and more of the typically engaging activities, but many of […]
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When Home Dominates School
A student with a high ACEs score is going to have difficulty. That’s a fact. How we as teachers react to that difficulty is what […]
Save That Money
How to keep the classroom cheap: Idea 1: Using MTV Strategies (Cost: $0) The same strategies that we’ve been using to make thinking visible can […]
Thinking Is Seeing
Kids are always thinking. Ideally, they’d be thinking about the lesson, but the mind often wanders to all areas of life. As a teacher, it’s […]
STEAM in Motion
STE(A)M activities get students involved in not just one content area, but several at the same time. For group work, this means helping each student […]
Allowing Constructivism Into the Classroom
An Overview of “Constructivism and Conceptual Change, Part I” Alan Colbern provides his definition of constructivism and applications of it towards philosophy, learning styles, and […]
Cooperative Learning Styles: The Evolved Group Project
The “Typical” Group Project Often times, students will fall into one of several roles for a group project and will not divide work evenly. This […]
Being in the Margins
Teaching in the margins means creating an atypical plan so that students see a new perspective of learning. Students’ curiosity can lead the discussion into […]
The Exemplary Teacher
What makes a teacher good? I want the answer to be black and white. I want to think of teaching like I think of math […]