Teaching Kids to Learn from Failure
Teaching Kids to Learn from Failure: A Game-Changer for Success As a high school teacher, I’ve seen my fair share of students struggling with failure.… Read More »Teaching Kids to Learn from Failure
Teaching Kids to Learn from Failure
Teaching High School Students Responsible Risk-Taking: Fostering Innovation and Personal Growth
As high school students navigate the complexities of adolescence, they are faced with numerous challenges that assess their resilience, creativity, and decision-making skills. One critical aspect of their personal and professional development is learning to take calculated risks and innovate in a responsible manner. In this article, we will explore what responsible risk-taking means, its significance for personal growth, and the benefits it brings.
Teaching Student to Take Notes in Meetings
Written Article: As teachers, we teach students to take notes for classroom information, group work and assessments and this works well for academic work. However… Read More »Teaching Student to Take Notes in Meetings
Building Handouts for Digital and Print Use
In this article we will talk about some methods for building handouts and worksheets for both digital and print usage by students.
Standard Operating Procedures to Help Give Student Independence in the Classroom
Most classroom that I have been in have various ways of doing tasks or ways that they run whether it is elementary, middle, high school… Read More »Standard Operating Procedures to Help Give Student Independence in the Classroom
Excalidraw: A great tool for charts and diagrams
Excalidraw is an excellent light-weight drawing and diagramming tool for adding visual information and context to assignments.
Building Custom Assignment Templates
In education we work with lots and lots of files for class assignments, administrative work and other types of paperwork. One of the ways that… Read More »Building Custom Assignment Templates
Lesson Planning: One Key to Success
Consistent and quality lesson planning is one of the professional responsibilities that will help you to succeed as teacher in the modern educational environment.
Writing Better Prompts for AI in Education
Many in the educational community have a great deal of fear and concern regarding how ChatGPT and AI in general are used in the classroom by students. I believe that one of the ways that this fear and concern can be alleviated is to start to learn and use ChatGPT for educational tasks and build comfort with this new and growing technology.
Three Components of Digital Feedback
It used to be commonplace for teachers to give written feedback to students on the paper assignments that they turned in. However, as districts moved to digital grade books and student information systems, much of this feedback faded away. While much of this feedback is given to students in other forms, there are common practices among feedback practices. Feedback to students is a critical part of the learning process, as it closes the information processing loop, and it allows students to learn from the mistakes and problems that they make during learning the learning process. Solid and effective feedback must have three major components for it to be useful and effective for students: specific, articulable, and actionable. These three components make feedback given to students on daily assignments and assessments useful to allow them to take corrective action in the learning process.