Teaching With Care: Fostering Resilient Learners
Adverse childhood experiences manifest themselves in our classroom. It is an undeniable reality of our world. School must be a safe space for all children, […]
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Believe Me…
Think about the last time someone changed your mind about something. It could be anything: where to go to eat, what movie to watch, your […]
Constructing Student Knowledge: A Duckworth Approach
The foundation of learning is the construction of one’s own knowledge. This is an instrumental theory in education. Many philosophers have developed their own theories […]
Making Thinking Visible: Developing Habits of Critical Thinkers
Have you stood in front of a room full of 30 students, all eyes are on you, maybe your lecturing about the carbon cycle, and […]
Rethinking Thinking: Constructivism in the Science Classroom
“Tabula rasa.” This is what my teacher used to say to us in my 10th grade drama class. He’d tell us that everything we knew […]
Cooperative Learning: Team Work Makes the Dream Work
Getting Started One of the many benefits of cooperative learning is the development of social skills through team building. In order for you and your […]
Intrinsic Motivation: Getting Behind the Wheel of Your Own Learning
Teachers are always looking for ways to get their students to connect more deeply with the content in the classroom. This is often manifested in […]
Going Where No Teacher Has Gone Before… THE MARGINS!
Picture this: you’re floating in space, among the thousands of stars, galaxies, and nebulae. You pass by shooting star, and on that shooting star is […]
Exemplary Science Teachers: the Art of Teaching Science
I bet if you asked 100 students about their favorite part of science class, you wouldn’t hear about their favorite worksheet, or the lecture on […]