Blog Lesson Plan Pedagogy 
A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 10, 2018
The quest to improve pedagogy, and in turn learner outcomes, is a focus of many schools. As I work with schools and districts as a job-embedded coach, one of my main focus areas is to help improve pedagogy both with and without the use of technology. Maybe success lies in taking a more detailed look at daily practice.
A Principal's Reflections
DECEMBER 19, 2021
Lesson planning/activities : While Daily Meeting is a great start, SEL should be emphasized across the curriculum. HERE are some great ideas from the HMH Shaped blog. Personalized learning : Sound pedagogy can be the most proactive approach out there to meeting kids' social and emotional needs on a daily basis.
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A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 8, 2018
In a previous blog post, I wrote about the importance of focusing on the why as it relates to learning. Sara Briggs sums it up nicely: "Research shows that relevant learning means effective learning and that alone should be enough to get us rethinking our lesson plans (and school culture for that matter).
A Principal's Reflections
MAY 5, 2019
Blog posts are a great option to get into the nitty-gritty of change. Hyperlinks A simple strategy to add more context to tweets and social media updates is to add a hyperlink to supporting research, mainstream media pieces, blog posts, or other resource sites. If you are not blogging, it’s time to get over the hurdle.
Becoming a History Teacher
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Understanding Seb’s choices One of the hardest things for beginning teachers to grasp is that teaching is about a lot more than designing activities which will engage/ enthuse/ occupy the pupils for the lesson. All too often beginning teachers are attracted to the pedagogy as an end itself, rather than as the vehicle to that end.
Becoming a History Teacher
MARCH 11, 2025
I have previously talked about pace targets 1, 2 & 3 in a blog exploring how a mentor could go about targeting their mentees transitions to help them move more smoothly between lesson phases. One of the more complex meanings of the pace target relates to the balance of abstract and conceptual thinking included in the lesson.
Edthena
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
These pedagogies then can be broken down into more specific teaching moves, which helps teachers better see how they can support students in analyzing a text. This might mean comparing two moments from the same lesson, two examples of the same pedagogical move, or a video with related materials like lesson plans and student work.
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