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"Incorporating multiple intelligences in your teaching will ensure that you tap into your students' full potential for learning. By teaching in more "brain-compatible" ways, teachers can engage more learners and educate more authentically and fairly. "

Incorporating multiple intelligences in your teaching will ensure that you tap into your students' full potential for learning. By teaching in more "brain-compatible" ways, teachers can engage more learners and educate more authentically and fairly.

"Guy Kawasaki last week wrote an item describing 'ten things you should learn this school year' in which readers were advised to learn how to write five sentence emails, create powerpoint slides, and survive boring meetings. It was, to my view, advice on how to be a business toady. My view is that people are worth more than that, that pleasing your boss should be the least of your concerns, and that genuine learning means something more than how to succeed in a business environment. But what should you learn? Your school will try to teach you facts, which you'll need to pass the test but which are otherwise useless. In passing you may learn some useful skills, like literacy, which you should cultivate. But Guy Kawasaki is right in at least this: schools won't teach you the things you really need to learn in order to be successful, either in business (whether or not you choose to live life as a toady) or in life. Here, then, is my list. This is, in my view, what you need to learn in order to be successful. Moreover, it is something you can start to learn this year, no matter what grade you're in, no matter how old you are. I could obviously write much more on each of these topics. But take this as a starting point, follow the suggestions, and learn the rest for yourself. And to educators, I ask, if you are not teaching these things in your classes, why are you not?"

Some very applicable skills for our pupils! An apt read for today.

Teaching For Creativity: Two Dozen Tips

Mathtrain.TV is a free educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA.

Kids teaching kids with video, could be great teaching or to recreate to have kids show understanding

Today, I had the privilege of teaching a high school staff about tech tools that I have used in my iPad filled classroom. Next year, the high school students will be using an iPad on a daily basis. The iPad will be theirs to use during the school year. This school did the correct thing by getting the iPads into the hands of the teachers well before they are asked to lead students with them. Teachers have had the iPads for about 2 months. The presentation that I used is below. Highlights are listed below the presentation.

"Are you a teacher who wants to increase collaboration and skill development to students? Teamwork can increase these skills, as students can learn how to communicate, cooperate and compromise on decisions together. What better way to teach these skills than through social media?"

Are you a teacher who wants to increase collaboration and skill development to students? Teamwork can increase these skills, as students can learn how to communicate, cooperate and compromise on decisions together. What better way to teach these skills than through social media?

"With the right eco-education, we can hope they will hit the ground running. A lot of schools and educational institutions are doing their bit by including the environment as part of the curriculum. Words like 'carbon footprint' and global warming' comes to them as easily as the name of any present-day rock star. That's cool. But who said that ecological or environmental education needs to be bookish or donnish? Thanks to online games, it can be brought out from textbooks into the fun world. Online environmental games games that teach kids about animals and conservation make the task interactive."

"The Teaching Foreign Languages workshop will help K-12 foreign language teachers improve their practice by making connections between the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning and current research in foreign language education. Workshop components include eight lively half-hour video programs with leading researchers and practicing teachers discussing how the standards play out in day-to-day classroom situations, a workshop guide available online and in print, and interactive activities on the Web. "

I bring you two sites that allow you to download teaching resources like lesson plans, printable materials for your class and much much more. Maybe you need a helping hand in keeping your material fresh or you want some hints towards successful lessons. If so, then these sites are for you!

"This post is an excerpt from the Challenge section in my latest book, Tuned Out: Engaging the 21st Century Learner."

Inquiry Learning reasons 101

"Shakespeare Vocab using Quizlet - Anyone who has read a Shakespeare play will know that there is some funky vocabulary included. Being able to understand this vocab is pivotal to understanding the text. So, after our introduction I had the students study some commonly misunderstood Shakespearean words on Quizlet. They studied the list and did some flashcards and games, then got together with a partner and completed the test. They had fun and it really helped their understanding of Scene I."