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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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Take the Manage Out of Classroom Management

Catlin Tucker

When I lead blended learning workshops or coach teachers implementing blended learning, I get a lot of questions about classroom management. ” On some primal level, I know that I don’t like to be managed myself. .” ” On some primal level, I know that I don’t like to be managed myself.

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Taking the “Manage” Out of Classroom Management

Catlin Tucker

Classroom management isn’t something I have struggled with. That’s not to say that I haven’t had challenging students throughout my 16 years in the classroom, but their behavior is never an ongoing issue or distraction. Think about the professional development training sessions you have attended.

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What We’re Reading: 4 Resources for Improving School Culture

Edthena

We’ve rounded up four resources that provide best practices for improving school culture, including how psychological safety is crucial for educators and strategies for valuing and supporting teachers. Consider how teachers can get more out of schoolwide collaboration time and professional development without scheduling more meeting time.

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Play-Based Learning Activities to Try This Fall

Studies Weekly

There are both psychological and physiological reasons why hands-on learning is so effective at information retention. According to Psychology Today , listening and analyzing processes happen in the left hemisphere of the brain, but visual and spatial processes happen on the right side.

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PROOF POINTS: Borrowing a page from marriage therapy in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

Experts argue over whether the best classroom-management approach is a consistent, strict discipline or a more forgiving response where students discuss their grievances with an adult’s guidance, a process called restorative justice. Credit: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages. The paper, “??

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Does instructional coaching have a PR problem?

A Psychology Teacher Writes

There’s a huge amount of discussion around the use of instructional coaching in schools as a key driver for professional development, and some are quite evangelical about it. Not every problem a teacher faces is about classroom management (although these probably account for a lot more than we might realise).