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How Can #EdTech Impact On Your Classroom And School? via @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 2 minutes.<p>How can education-technology impact on your classroom and school?<p>This October sees the launch of the EduTech Show at Olympia; …
EducationTeaching the Art of Listening: How to Use Podcasts in the Classroom
« Can Artificial Intelligence Help Teachers Find the Right Lesson Plans? | Main<p>Podcasts are far from a new classroom tool—teachers have been …
TeachingMost teachers believe that kids have different ‘learning styles.’ Here’s why they are wrong.
Surely you’ve heard that kids have different “learning styles.” Some supposedly learn better visually, others through listening. Some kids are cooperative while others are competitive.<p>Well, there is no consensus on what “learning styles” actually are, and some experts say they don’t, in fact, exist.<p>…
PedagogyWhy Teachers Need Their Freedom
Educators must remain engaged and autonomous in order to do their jobs well and avoid burnout.<p>My co-teacher and I met in the parking lot before school and stared into my car trunk at the costumes and props we had gathered over the weekend. We were giddy with excitement and nervous because neither …
TeachingWe Asked Teachers About Pop Culture’s Worst Teachers
‘Yoda. He was always so cryptic.’<p>Forget the mask wearing, Russian accented, monotoned sounding, melodramatic, rule-the-world villain you've become used to; the bad teacher was always the real nemesis to our happiness. The kind of teacher that made skipping school a lucrative tradition. If they had …
TeachingFind Someone Who - ESL Speaking Activities for Kids & Adults
The Find Someone Who ESL Activity is a great way to get your students up and out of their seats. By filling out a chart of questions, students try to …
WritingChanging the Way We Think About Assessment
« Sharing My Expert Voice With Humility | Main<p>It seems like a blur now, the beginning of the summer. Almost like a dream when I had the opportunity …
TeachingHow to be a minimalist teacher
Using the principles of minimalism has helped me to have more impact in school – and a calmer professional life<p>The new school year arrives with a flurry of activity: resources to prepare, PowerPoints to write, new classroom displays to create. By the time students arrive we are slumped in the …
TeachingHow to Write Effective Lesson Plans
Writing lesson plans does not have to be difficult. This is the time that a teacher can show their creativity. Here is a how-to on how to create …
Teaching3 Edtech Trends to Watch in 2017
These are verticals entrepreneurs should investigate first.<p>Technology in education is not new by any means, but the industry referred to as edtech still has that new car smell, a sheen that hasn't quite worn off yet. Still in its infancy compared to most industries, this space is far from saturated …
Inc. MagazineIgnore the panic. There’s little point learning languages at school
Reactionary educators fetishise languages because they are easy to test. But the obsession with measuring comes at the expense of true education<p>Education policy is like defence policy. It is always fighting the last war but one. Predictable woe has greeted the plummeting number of pupils studying …
EducationThe Best Job Sites for Teaching English in Korea (2017)
For people who first start teaching English abroad, South Korea is a popular destination. The salary for teaching English in Korea is higher than …
EmploymentUniversities should ban PowerPoint — It makes students stupid and professors boring
Do you really believe that watching a lecturer read hundreds of PowerPoint slides is making you smarter?<p>I asked this of a class of 105 computer science and software engineering students last semester.<p>An article in The Conversation argued universities should ban PowerPoint because it makes students …
EducationOne Key Question May Help Children Get Deeper Meaning From Stories
A researcher has found that asking young children why things happened in a story that's been read to them helps them discover the moral lesson an …
TeachingLess Homework = More Learning
My kids’ public school released kids from homework a few years ago — a move met with some pushback. As the NY Daily News put it: <b>Parents Outraged</b> …
Teaching5 Ways to Help Struggling Readers With the Whole Student in Mind
It’s easy to fall into the trap of only focusing on a student’s reading struggles, but we cannot leave the rest of the student behind. When we fail …
TeachingThe Secret to Learning a Foreign Language as an Adult
<i>Answer by David Bailey, CEO of Spotnight, on Quora.</i><p>I've learned several foreign languages as an adult. I was able to learn French to conversation …
Language LearningThe sound of inclusion: Why teachers’ words matter
Language matters in every class: English, math, history and science<p>This article was originally published on The Conversation.<p>There isn’t just one way to sound like a scientist, or to sound like a scholar. Scientists and scholars come from a wide variety of backgrounds and speak in different ways, …
EducationEducators should play a more important role in the fight against racism, says UBC professor
'We’ve got to get over our discomfort ... I think that we would end up learning more from each other."<p>A University of British Columbia professor is …
RacismThe school with a teacher to student ratio of 5:1
Canberra's only special assistance school has opened an additional campus to better help its year 10 students prepare for the next stage of …
The Impact of an Educator
I fondly remember when I was first asked to consider what my future career path might be. Mrs. Williams, my kindergarten teacher, asked the class to …
KnewHow to Teach Your Kid a Second Language Even if You Suck at It
The idea of teaching a child a second language can sound intimidating. If you, yourself, are rusty in that language (say, you haven’t conjugated a …
What Are The Top 12 Teaching Blogs of 2017? by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 1<p>What are the most-read blogs throughout the past 12 months?<p>We’ve been digging through the archives behind the scenes at Teacher …
12 Tools and Resources to Get Students to Create Instructional Videos
“Animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere …
How Exercise Could Help You Learn a New Language
Learning a second language as an adult is difficult. But the process may be eased if you exercise while learning.<p>A new study reports that working out during a language class amplifies people’s ability to memorize, retain and understand new vocabulary. The findings provide more evidence that to …
Language LearningWhy Stubborn Myths Like ‘Learning Styles’ Persist
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”We should learn from experiences, particularly if those experiences show our previous …
BehaviorTen books every teacher should read
In the last decade, a wealth of books has brought together ideas to help teachers have the greatest impact on student learning. Here are just a few<p>Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Émile and Dewey’s Democracy and Education – there’s a strong case to be made, as Dennis Hayes has, that these are the only …
TeachingThe Best Job Sites for Teaching English in Japan
Are you looking for a new job teaching English in Japan? There are many sites online with job postings. Your search can span from page to page on …
Seven tips for supporting high performers at school
From using games and activities to developing growth mindsets, experts share their advice on what parents and teachers can do to cultivate excellence<p>Is giftedness a case of nature or nurture? Opinion is divided. While one school of thought says that some children have an innate ability to achieve …
Education8 effective and creative ways to learn a new language as an adult
<i>The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships so we may get a share of the revenue from your purchase.</i><p>There are a lot of excuses for not learning a second language, especially as an adult. Many of us know the oft-repeated adage that …
Language Learning