It Takes A Village To Lead An Identity Safe School
Leadership doesn’t depend on any single individual. Everyone, teachers, counselors, aides, and administrators, can create a safe, inclusive, and accepting school environment. This fall, launching a welcoming and joyful new year will lead to increased learning and help heal the suffering and grief many faced during the pandemic.
In my previous Bright Classroom Ideas blog, I shared a set...
How To Engage Different Learner Types In The Classroom
Every child absorbs and processes information differently. For example, some children process information better when it is written, while others have a visual learning style.
There are different learning styles, and each child's learning style is an amalgamation of their environmental patterns, cognitive ability, and past experiences.
If you help the child to learn according to their learner type, they will...
How VR In Education Will Change How We Teach
Much of conventional education is about providing students with facts for them to remember. This is usually done with books, films or lectures. While this can be effective in some ways, it does limit the potential for learning.
As a technology, Virtual Reality is usually associated with entertainment. However, it has a lot of potential to improve education. With the...
What Can The Level 6 Trinity Certificate Do For You?
Teacher development comes in many forms, with schools organising CPD workshops, teachers doing action research and teacher training centres offering formal qualifications such as the Diplomas in TESOL offered by Trinity College and Cambridge University ESOL.
However, until now there has not been a globally-accessible qualification for teachers ready to develop what they do in their own classrooms, with a...
Assessment In A Differentiated Makerspace
Tenzin is building a theremin by coding a microcontroller to work with a motion sensor and speaker. Roger is using the laser cutter to create pieces that he’ll assemble into a weight bearing dome structure. Cody and Justin are in the shop, cutting wood for a trebuchet. Eric is writing a code that can look at a chessboard and...
Students With Disabilities Are Unhappy With Their College Education
Only 32% of students with ADHD feel their college offers ‘good’ accommodations
According to research released today, two thirds (62%) of college students with learning disabilities or mental health issues are unhappy with the education they are currently receiving.
Learning technology experts Glean carried out the research to find out how students with disabilities, learning difficulties and mental health issues feel...
Early Learning: How To Teach Kids At A Young Age
The brains of children are highly curious and active. While all children possess unique traits that set them apart, all children have an innate ability and drive to learn.
Here are some reliable and psychologically supported activities that you can use to help kids flourish at a young age.
1. Allow them to thrive in a positive emotional environment
When a child is...
7 Ways To Manage Childhood Trauma
If childhood trauma is left unresolved it can rear its ugly head in adulthood. However, many parents and teachers operate under the misconception that if a child doesn’t seem to be bothered by an event, they have not really been traumatized by it.
Children do not have the emotional maturity or the verbal capacity to express how they feel, however,...
Planning for Personalized Learning
Strategies To Create A Personalized Learning Environment
Each student has their own unique learning styles, strengths and weaknesses, and academic history that shapes who they are and how they learn. This learner variability exists in every classroom across the globe, yet education systems typically ask for a streamlined approach that disregards this variability. Student-centered classrooms utilizing personalized learning provide students...
Teaching Academic Essay Writing [10 Tips]
Success in teaching is when a student can do better than their teacher. Actually, every good teacher dreams about it. Still, what should you as an instructor know about academic essay writing to deliver this knowledge to your students?
Many methods and techniques are used by experienced essay writing masters who teach both exact science and humanities. Some students...
