Build Students’ Brains With These Thinking Skills Apps

Build Students’ Brains With These Thinking Skills Apps

Building Research Skills for Finding Compelling Data

Building Research Skills for Finding Compelling Data

10 Things Students Can Explore With Online Learning [Infographic}

10 Things Students Can Explore With Online Learning [Infographic}

Blended Learning Ideas: 8 Strategies and 3 Cool Projects

Blended Learning Ideas: 8 Strategies and 3 Cool Projects

10 Innovative Formative Assessment Examples for Teachers

10 Innovative Formative Assessment Examples for Teachers

An Educator’s Guide for Teaching Creatively

An Educator’s Guide for Teaching Creatively

10 Great Critical Thinking Activities That Engage Your Students

10 Great Critical Thinking Activities That Engage Your Students

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

Obertopia: Classroom Quiet-Down Techniques

Obertopia: Classroom Quiet-Down Techniques: I really enjoy using collaborative learning in my classroom.  For more information on what that means, you can click here for my learn...

High Performance Learning

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More Time 2 Teach: BAM's: Classroom Management System

More Time 2 Teach: BAM's: Classroom Management System:      In my 17 years of teaching, I have tried ALL KINDS of behavior management systems ranging from pulling cards, economy systems, tick...

Mrs. McConnell's Blog: Quality Content on Edmodo Spotlight

Mrs. McConnell's Blog: Quality Content on Edmodo Spotlight: Background Edmodo Spotlight is a repository for Open Educational Resources, (ROER) as well as a source of content which is not considered ...

School Outdoor Learning - SOuL: The 5 Key Elements to Successful Learning Outside ...

School Outdoor Learning - SOuL: The 5 Key Elements to Successful Learning Outside ...: School Outdoor Learning provide resources, training and creative installations to  support teaching and learning outside the classroom ...

School Outdoor Learning - SOuL: Habits of Mind and Outdoor Learning

School Outdoor Learning - SOuL: Habits of Mind and Outdoor Learning: Do your students give up easily? Do your students interrupt you and each other? Do your students blurt out answers before thinking? ...

School Outdoor Learning - SOuL: Treasure Hunt 365

School Outdoor Learning - SOuL: Treasure Hunt 365: Geocaching has become a hugely popular activity for families and individuals over the last few years. Many schools actively take part in th...

Innovative Practice: 5 Strategies for the Early Learning Classroom

Innovative Practice: 5 Strategies for the Early Learning Classroom: Project- and play-based learning are essential in the early grades to develop creative learning dispositions during the brain's most active period of synaptic growth.

Mrs. McConnell's Blog: Making Sense of Creative Commons Licenses

Mrs. McConnell's Blog: Making Sense of Creative Commons Licenses: Interview with Jane Park Last week I was fascinated to interview Jane Park,   director of Platforms and Partnerships at Creative Commons ...

A Must Have Tool for Helping Students with Reading and Writing Difficulties ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

A Must Have Tool for Helping Students with Reading and Writing Difficulties ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

How to Teach Your First Drama Class!

How to Teach Your First Drama Class!: Teaching drama for the first time? Get this free 12 page lesson plan from Drama Notebook.

War on Boys - Boys be Boys!

Welcome | Powerful Learning Practice

Welcome | Powerful Learning Practice

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How Emotions Affect Learning, Behaviors, and Relationships

How Emotions Affect Learning, Behaviors, and Relationships: In the first of five posts about the film 'Inside Out,' Lori Desautels offers strategies to help explore how joy, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust can help students.

Teaching above the test: Is it cross-curricular?

What is Cross-Curriculum?

Teaching above the test: Is it cross-curricular?: Image:  http://www.idiagram.com/ideas/knowledge_integration.html I was in a PD the other day, and we were asked to provide examples of...

What is a Good Teacher?

Check out the lesson Using Edtech to Supercharge Student Inquiry and Multimedia Literacy, Laura Beltchenko on Blendspace

Check out the lesson Using Edtech to Supercharge Student Inquiry and Multimedia Literacy, Laura Beltchenko on Blendspace: Check out the lesson Using Edtech to Supercharge Student Inquiry and Multimedia Literacy, Laura Beltchenko on Blendspace

Stories for English

Stories for English

Activities-ESL: Toilet Paper Icebreaker

Activities-ESL: Toilet Paper Icebreaker: This activity is used as a "getting to know you", icebreaker on the first day of class. Teacher takes the toilet paper roll and ...

Activities-ESL: Bad Fruit: A Shoppers' Nightmare

Activities-ESL: Bad Fruit: A Shoppers' Nightmare: This is an oral communication activity appropriate for EFL learners in elementary/primary school. (It's optimal for grades 3-6). This ga...

Activities-ESL: Chain Spelling

Activities-ESL: Chain Spelling: The teacher gives a word and asks a student to spell it, and then a second student should say a word beginning with the last letter of the ...

Activities-ESL: Bang Bang - A Vocabulary Game

Activities-ESL: Bang Bang - A Vocabulary Game: Divide the group into two teams. Explain that they are cowboys and they are involved in a duel. One student from each team comes to the fr...

Activities-ESL: Secret Code

Activities-ESL: Secret Code: I sometimes give instructions to my students written in code that they have to interpret before completing tasks. I've used this at...

Activities-ESL: Battle Ships - A Vocabulary Game

Activities-ESL: Battle Ships - A Vocabulary Game: Preparation: Divide the students in to groups of four or five. Then ask the student to make the name for their ships for example with the n...