5 Easy Ways to Encourage Independent Learning in the Flipped Classroom
There are lots of questions about the flipped classroom and how it benefits student learning. One of our top goals…
Lesson/Unit Planning
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Teachers Helping Teachers: 5 Ideas for the End of the Semester
There are meaningful activities you can do with your students in those last weeks that will help make things feel a little bit more manageable for everyone and, perhaps, buy you a few more minutes to work through your to-do list.
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Writing Good Questions: The One Trick You Need to Know
Most students (let’s be real, most humans) tend to exert the minimum level of effort needed to complete a task. And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing – we don’t have the time, energy, or resources to go above and beyond on every. single. task. This can become frustrating in our classrooms, however, when students turn in poor quality work on what we thought was a good assignment or earn low scores on a quiz we thought they were well-prepared for.
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High School Homework: Rethinking the Traditional Philosophy
Talk about fortuitous timing. Right around the same time we sat down to compose this post, California made headlines for…
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Engaging Lessons to Make the First Week of School a Success
What makes the perfect first week of school? We’re pretty sure you could ask 1,000 different teachers this question and…
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Starting a New Semester: Engaging Students with High-Interest Lessons
We like starting a new semester with a high-interest or accessible (or both!) unit to work on engaging our students from the start and capitalize on their “new year, new me” energy and desire to start the semester strong.
