5 Tips for Avoiding Teacher Burnout | Edutopia - 0 views
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Too much change stretches teachers thin and leads to burnout
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Include teachers in conversations about changes, and make changes transparent
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It's OK if teaching is your life as long as you have a life outside of your classroom
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Can you build a bridge from gumdrops and toothpicks? - 0 views
The Art of Facilitating Teacher Teams | Edutopia - 0 views
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Note that I'm using the term "facilitator" to mean the person who plans and designs agendas as well as who guides a team through processes outlined on an agenda
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a variety of structures or protocols to meet the desired outcomes.
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The purpose of the meeting and desired outcomes are articulated and connected to the school's vision, mission, and big goals
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Pioneers (Creative Kids Blog) - 0 views
The 8 Minutes That Matter Most | Edutopia - 0 views
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John Irving, the author of The Cider House Rules, begins with his last sentence: I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.
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That is the crux of lesson planning right there -- endings and beginnings. If we fail to engage students at the start, we may never get them back. If we don't know the end result, we risk moving haphazardly from one activity to the next. Every moment in a lesson plan should tell.
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The eight minutes that matter most are the beginning and endings. If a lesson does not start off strong by activating prior knowledge, creating anticipation, or establishing goals, student interest wanes, and you have to do some heavy lifting to get them back. If it fails to check for understanding, you will never know if the lesson's goal was attained.
School-Wide Twitter Chats | Edutopia - 1 views
Project-Based Learning Through a Maker's Lens | Edutopia - 0 views
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A Maker is an individual who communicates, collaborates, tinkers, fixes, breaks, rebuilds, and constructs projects for the world around him or her.
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Making loves the process and allows the teacher to move fluidly between levels and subjects. When I designed a middle school level Forces and Motion unit, NGSS MS-PS2 dovetails nicely with CCSS Mathmatical Practice.
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Great projects, on the other hand, are opportunities for learners and teachers to collaborate with those around them.
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Why Curiosity Enhances Learning | Edutopia - 0 views
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curiosity puts the brain in a state that allows it to learn and retain any kind of information, like a vortex that sucks in what you are motivated to learn, and also everything around it.
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So not only will arousing students' curiosity help them remember lessons that might otherwise go in one ear and out the other, but it can also make the learning experience as pleasurable as ice cream or pocket money
5 App and Mobile Use Guides for Parents | Edutopia - 0 views
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75 percent of children 8 years old or younger had access to a "smart" mobile device at home
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For teens, mobile use is near ubiquitous; almost 80 percent own a cell phone and three-quarters use mobile devices to access the internet, according to findings from a 2013 Pew Research survey.
Force Users to Make a Copy of a Google Doc! - 0 views
10 Teacher Hacks for Google Apps - 0 views
A First-Time Parent's Guide to Digital Life | Common Sense Media - 0 views
Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding | Edutopia - 1 views
Making School About Connection | Edutopia - 0 views
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No one looking back on his or her school experience remembers a particularly poignant test. Instead, people remember the teacher who reached out to them at a vulnerable moment, the unit that changed the way they understand an issue, or the project that seemed impossible at first but then became something far beyond everyone's expectations.
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Warm, genuine greetings and attempts to connect can have a large impact.
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Classrooms based on a foundation of respect encourage people to be kind and the best versions of themselves.
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