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How Accurate Are Your Grades?

…”grade” the concept of learning slowly slips away. So we children, we are taught very young that students who receive A’s are bright and those who receive Cs are, well, ok. Grades represent very little, in my opinion, but we are an educational system that encourages As not Cs. Take another perspective. Northern European schools take a student-teacher-system collaborative approach and view students as “partners”: Interesting… Tanaka, M., Naylor, R., Ursin, J., & Zavale, N. C. (2019). THE FUTURE OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT. Student Engagement and Quality Assurance in Higher Education: International Collaborations for the Enhancement of Learning, 162. Shaylee Joy…

Episode 120: How One District Learned to Talk About Race

…free teaching resources, share work with students, and communicate feedback on assignments. With Kiddom, school and district leaders can support the work happening in classrooms in a more effective and timely manner. And most importantly, they can let teachers do what they do best. Want to try it out? Get your 2-week free trial at go.kiddom.co/freetrial Support also comes from Pear Deck, the tool that helps you supercharge student engagement. With Pear Deck, you can take any Google Slides presentation, add interactive questions or embed websites, and send it to student devices so they can participate in real time while…

8 Ways to Grow Students’ Vocabulary

…important to make time for this, because students tend to find the periods in which their classmates are leading discussion much more memorable than when the teacher is; students often have a way of saying something that “clicks” with their peers just because it’s said in a kid-friendly way. What kind of words should students share in word talks? Many students share from their independent reading and their media and technology use. Teachers can ask students to provide a rationale for each word chosen if they like, but they can also allow students to share any word that might be…

To Learn, Students Need to DO Something

…where we get students interested in the lesson and set objectives for the day. Direct instruction: Facts, concepts, and skills are delivered via lecture, video, reading—some way of getting the information into students’ heads. Guided practice and application: With the support of the teacher, students apply what they have just been taught. Independent practice and application: Students apply the learning on their own. Assessment: The teacher measures how well students have met the objectives. I think what’s happening is that we’re skipping over the third step. We’re going right to independent practice (often at the lowest levels—basic regurgitation), but students…

Episode 47: Black Girls and School: We Can Do Better

…those are the two leading alternatives that we engage when we are talking about alternatives, particularly to school discipline. Each one has been evaluated and where there is program fidelity, they are effective in curbing the rate of suspensions and the usage of other forms of exclusionary discipline in response to negative student behavior. The PBIS discussion to me is a behavioral modification effort and I think that it has its limitations in the sense that it addresses the student, but it doesn’t address the structures around the student. And so, while we spend a lot of time again talking…

9 Tips for Engaging Your English Class with Pop Culture

…be highly captivating primary sources, but strangely, our students feel a stronger pull toward Adele’s music videos.) Hook them with a music video or commercial before you put them through the paces with close visual reading, analysis, and synthesis. 9. Have fun! Don’t lose sight of the reason why pop culture is such a great tool to heighten engagement and rigor! It’s a relatively novel academic exercise, your students will have a pre-existing interest in the content, and because of these factors, pop culture lessons don’t feel quite as much like work. Your students will literally feel compelled to laugh,…

Episode 222 Transcript

…holds true for education as well. Most schools operate within a larger community, and the better we are at building relationships between our schools and our communities, the better we can serve our students. While this principle is not new, as our student population grows ever more diverse, many schools haven’t been quite as successful as they’d like to be when trying to connect with their students’ families. Despite holding open houses and special theme nights, setting up parent-teacher conferences, sending home newsletters, and using apps designed specifically to keep families in the loop, I hear too many teachers say…

How to Leverage Multisensory Learning in Your Classroom

…nervous system learns not to be triggered by sensory inputs that are not necessarily unsafe. Think about how a teacher’s co-regulation while the student is touching the worm can make her feel calm and safe with each successive exposure: the teacher might relax his body, get down on the student’s level, smile at the student, and reflect how the worm might feel in order to co-regulate with the student. It is important to note that students who are understimulated — that is, do not respond as readily to sensory input — are often overlooked because they don’t necessarily “act out”…

Episode 124: A Closer Look at Open Educational Resources

…has the finest professional field educators in the business because The educators you travel with Matter. Learn more at chillexpeditions.com. Support also comes from Pear Deck, the tool that helps you supercharge student engagement. With Pear Deck, you can take any Google Slides or PowerPoint Online presentation, add interactive questions or embed websites directly into your lesson, and send it to student devices so they can participate in real time while you present. Pear Deck has always been compatible with Google Apps for Education, but starting this summer, teachers at Microsoft schools can use Pear Deck with PowerPoint Online and…