Six Tips for Managing the Feedback Workload

Providing feedback is proven to increase student learning, and there are ways to make the work involved more manageable.

Six Tips for Mentoring New Teachers During Distance Learning

Experienced teachers typically mentor novices by observing their classes and meeting regularly. That can still happen as both teachers work from home.

Speaking and Listening Talking to Your Eight Year Old

One of the most powerful ways to develop your child's literacy skills is also the easiest: talk to your kids! At age eight, children begin to use language to explain both their outer world (what they see) and their inner world (what they think, feel and imagine). When they talk to caring adults, they can expand their vocabulary and learn more about the give-and-take of conversations — including taking turns and building on someone else's ideas.

Strategies for Helping Students Motivate Themselves

Autonomy

Providing students with freedom of choice is one strategy for promoting learner autonomy. Educators commonly view this idea of choice through the lens of organizational and procedural choice.

Strategies for Improving Small Group Instruction

Tips for giving direct instruction to small groups, whether students are in the classroom or learning at home.

Strategies for Students With Scattered Minds

Teachers can help students strengthen their brain's executive function with "workouts" in which they practice pausing, prioritizing, improving their working memory, and mapping their options.

Strategies for Working Efficiently When Teaching Online

Teaching in distance and hybrid models is time-consuming, so teachers need to make sure they use their time well.

Summative Assessment in Distance Learning

Whether schools are using regular grades or not, teachers need to accurately assess learning while their students are at home. These are some helpful ideas to consider.

Taking Stock of What You’ve Learned

Six tips for thriving throughout the rest of your first year of teaching.

Talk Less So Students Learn More

Productive struggle is important for students to retain what they learn.

Talk Less So Students Learn More

Productive struggle is important for students to retain what they learn.

Teachers’ Most Common Tech Issues and How to Fix Them

After fielding his fellow teachers’ tech problems for two months, the writer has an eight-step DIY plan for addressing them before calling the IT department.

Teaching Friendship Skills in Preschool

Young children want friends but don’t always know how to treat them, so promoting heathy ideas about friendship in preschool is key.

Teaching Students How to Ask for Help

Students first need to recognize that they need help, and then they need to know that they’ll be supported when they ask for it.

Teaching Students How to Use Wikipedia Wisely

Understanding how the online encyclopedia functions helps students learn how to conduct research and distinguish fact from fiction.

Teaching Students to Embrace Mistakes

For the last ten years, we've worked one-on-one with students from elementary school through graduate school. No matter their age, no matter the material, when you ask what they're struggling with, students almost universally name a subject: "math," "English" or, in some instances, "school." Doubting that all of school is the issue, we then ask to see their last test. After some grumbling, the student digs down, deep into the dark, dank recesses of his or her backpack, and pulls out a balled-up, lunch-stained paper that, once smoothed out, turns out to be the latest exam.

Teaching Students to Self-Advocate During Distance Learning

Teachers are finding ways to gauge students’ understanding of lessons this year, and guiding them to ask for help is a crucial piece of the puzzle.

Teaching Students to Transfer Their Learning to New Contexts

The start of a unit is a great time to encourage students to see how what they’re learning applies in different situations.

Ten New Focused Attention Practices

Whether students are in class or at home, these quick breaks can help them find calm and prime their brains for learning.

Ten Takeaway Tips for Online Learning

How to make virtual education work best.