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8 Strategies Your Teaching More Enjoyable This Year

TeachThought

Develop routines for common tasks such as grading, lesson planning, and classroom setup. Delegate responsibilities when possible and use time-saving teaching strategies, such as flipped classrooms or project-based learning. Use tools like planners, apps, or digital calendars to keep track of tasks and deadlines.

Teaching 262
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Bookend Pedagogy

A Principal's Reflections

The anticipatory set is used to prepare students for the lesson by setting the students' minds for instruction. This is achieved by asking a question or making statements to pique interest, create mental images, review information, focus student attention, and initiate the learning process.

Pedagogy 450
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10 Strategies to Strengthen Instruction and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. When it came to the lesson plan piece, many of my colleagues and I in the Northeastern United States were educated in the Instructional Theory Into Practice Model (ITIP) developed by Madeline Hunter.

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How Creative Technology Can Help Students Take on the Future

ED Surge

Johnsrud: Educators can stay informed about future workforce trends, including emerging jobs and highly sought-after skills. It’s also important to equip them with professional-quality templates and assets so that the projects they’re creating actually look like professional outputs. Take Adobe Express for Education , for example.

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5 Ways To Create Positive Parent-Teacher Relationships

Passion for Social Studies

If something was bothering my student, disciplinary actions, or positive behavior was happening, I would immediately inform the student’s parents. Sometimes teachers have to stay after school to complete lesson planning, grading, copying, or other tasks that they might not have been able to finish during the day.

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50 Minute Periods Are Killing Teacher Creativity

Catlin Tucker

Too often the default in this scenario is to lecture or verbally present information because it is faster. Yet, if we want students to develop these crucial life skills–finding and evaluating information, communicating and collaborating with peers–they need time. They cannot feel they are being hurried through the process of learning.

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Lessons from a virtual school exemplar

The Hechinger Report

There aren’t as many opportunities for students to get to know their instructors informally — they can’t stop into their classroom during lunch or chat with them in a passing period. Even when she’s instructing a student from a distance, she learns about them and their home environment. “We Successful student characteristics.