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What students take away from a successful education usually centers on a personal connection with a teacher who instilled passion and inspiration for their subject. It's difficult to measure success, and in the world of academia, educators are continually re-evaluating how to quantify learning. But the first and most important question to ask is: Are teachers reaching their students? Here are 25 things successful educators do differently.

This is why we teach... teachers are special people!

A proactive list of things that will help diminish teacher burnout.

Tools for Constructing Games for Lesson Review - Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Hangman... Other teacher tools too...

Inspiring Story - Thanking a Science Teacher.

Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought or an event." -- Heidi Hayes Jacobs, 

Who would dispute the idea that feedback is a good thing? Both common sense and research make it clear: Formative assessment, consisting of lots of feedback and opportunities to use that feedback, enhances performance and achievement. Yet even John Hattie (2008), whose decades of research revealed that feedback was among the most powerful influences on achievement, acknowledges that he has "struggled to understand the concept" (p. 173). And many writings on the subject don't even attempt to define the term. To improve formative assessment practices among both teachers and assessment designers, we need to look more closely at just what feedback is-and isn't.

Google Docs and Word can work together well.  Here's how with the new changes in Google.

In my first year of teaching I taught the way I was told to teach. Deliver content to my students, assess at the end, remediate if necessary. With that cycle, I always had kids who were behind, who never seemed like they could catch up. I was talking with a teacher friend the summer after my first year and she suggested something simple. Put a large piece of paper next to the door. Give every student a pack of sticky notes. On the way out the door ...

The interest in inquiry-based learning seems to ebb and flow based on-well, it's not clear why it ever ebbs. In short, it is a student-centered, Constructivist approach to learning that requires critical thinking, and benefits from technology, collaboration, resourcefulness, and other modern learning skills that never seem to fall out of favor themselves.

A quick overview of resources for introducing iPad or BYOD into a classroom.

New Safe ON Science available October 15th. Safety Resource for High School Teachers (Ontario) - good core resource. Pre-order made for LCS.

This website encourages a teacher to develop"a Questioning Toolkit which contains several dozen kinds of questions and questioning tools". It also classifies and gives many examples of question that lead to learning.

A model to  re-examine Bloom's taxonomy that runs on an x-y axis.  Where thinking continuum is the y axis, and the action continuum runs along the x axis. This model is designed t help teacher examine rigour/resilience and the thinking in their classrooms.

Google Resource List (from Justin Medved)

Twenty Plus Ideas of how to use Google Docs in the Classroom

Forty plus Math and Physics lesson Ideas