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Cultivating Community With Smiles and Frowns

A simple activity helps students feel more comfortable sharing details of their lives, a foundation for a strong classroom community.

Designing Lessons for Engagement

Activities that get students out of their chairs and moving in the room can help them engage with course content, even in high school.

Digital Instruction During the Pandemic

Teaching virtually comes with its own set of challenges—especially during a pandemic. Use these strategies to focus on specific goals, embrace uncertainty, and keep communication open.

Distance Learning Strategies to Bring Back to the Classroom

When schools closed, teachers were forced to get creative—and they’ve learned things they can use when they’re back at school.

Do You Have a Virtual Backup Plan?

Preparing for service disruptions or your own absence will help your classes go smoothly even during this year of many challenges.

Due Dates and the Value of Student Ownership

Negotiating due dates with a class can help increase students’ feelings of accountability—to their teacher and to each other.

Effective Instructional Models for a Hybrid Schedule

It can be a challenge to engage students when they’re at school only a few days a week—station rotations and flipping the classroom can help.

Effective teaching: ten tips on what works and what doesn’t

The question of what makes a great teacher has been around for a long time. It’s an enquiry that poses many problems because there’s simply no set recipe for success, and different approaches work for different professionals and students.

Effective Team Communication: A First Step to Getting Along

Teacher teams can take a big step toward effective communication by naming what they want to hear and see in group conversations and what they don't want to hear and see.

Eight Proactive Classroom Management Tips

New teachers and experienced ones too can find ideas here on how to stop disruptive behavior before it begins.

Eight Quick Checks for Understanding

Formative assessment is a proven technique for improving student learning, and the strategies shared here by Jay McTighe work both in the classroom and remotely.

Eight Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom

Educators share their best synchronous and asynchronous strategies to boost student participation during online learning.

Eleven Habits of an Effective Teacher

I really appreciate teachers who are truly passionate about teaching. The teacher who wants to be an inspiration to others. The teacher who is happy with his/her job at all times. The teacher who every child in the school would love to have. The teacher kids remember for the rest of their lives. Are you that teacher? Read on and learn 11 effective habits of an effective teacher.

Cultivating Community With Smiles and Frowns

Designing Lessons for Engagement

Digital Instruction During the Pandemic

Distance Learning Strategies to Bring Back to the Classroom

Do You Have a Virtual Backup Plan?

Due Dates and the Value of Student Ownership

Effective Instructional Models for a Hybrid Schedule

Effective teaching: ten tips on what works and what doesn’t

Effective Team Communication: A First Step to Getting Along

Eight Proactive Classroom Management Tips

Eight Quick Checks for Understanding

Eight Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom

Eleven Habits of an Effective Teacher

Emphasizing the Importance of Play During Distance Learning

Encouraging Students to Develop Resilience

Encouraging Students to Read for Deeper Comprehension

Encouraging Students’ Independence in Math

Energy and Calm: Brain Breaks and Focused-Attention Practices

Essential Habits of an Excellent Educator

Fast and Efficient Ways to Provide Feedback

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