Self-Directed Learning: An Effortless Four-Step Process
Learning independently can be challenging, even for the brightest and most motivated students. As a means of better understanding the processes involved in this mode of study, this Teaching Tip outlines key components of four key stages to independent learning, known as self-directed learning: being ready to learn, setting learning goals, engaging in the learning process, and evaluating learning.
10 Tips For New Teachers
I fell upon this article by Jennifer Gonzalez (known all over the world for her excellent site, “The Cult of Pedagogy”) advising new teachers. It was a great read and reminded me a lot of my ups and downs as a beginning teacher.
Here is the thing about teaching: If you are passionate about what...
Creative Teaching And Teaching Creativity: How To Foster Creativity In The Classroom
“Describe the tongue of a woodpecker,” wrote Leonardo Da Vinci on one of his to-do lists, next to sketching cadavers, designing elaborate machines, and stitching costumes. Da Vinci filled over 7,000 notebook pages with questions, doodles, observations, sketches, and calculations. He nurtured creativity as a habit and skill every day—and it paid off. Da Vinci’s work reshaped...
Mobile Learning: Definition, Examples, Advantages and Disadvantages
What is Mobile Learning?
Mobile learning, also called mlearning, is education or training that is conducted on and delivered through portable devices like smartphones and tablets.
History of Mobile Learning
Alan Kay is the name behind the introduction of the mobile learning concept in the 1970s. He got...
What Are The Top 5 Trends In Elementary School Education?
Education is constantly evolving and being reformed. Over the centuries, as the world has changed, so has the focus of childhood education. Today, early childhood education is aimed at introducing key subjects and core concepts that will be developed later in the child’s educational career, but there is always debate about which educational methods are the best....
4 Essential Steps To Decide If College Is Worth It For You
Is college worth it? That’s a tricky question. College isn’t cheap, but many believe it’s the way to obtain a “good” job. You have to spend money to make money, right? But does that make it worth it?
It depends. The cost of college has created a situation in which 44 million people have had...
The Beginners Guide to Google Classroom
As the classroom is becoming more and more paperless, teachers have to start finding solutions to hand out assignments, manage their classroom, communicate with students, and so on.
A rapidly growing number of teachers are finding their way to Google Classroom. An ingenious virtual classroom that focusses less on tech and more on teaching. You...
Teacher Salary Worldwide [And Other Mind-Blowing Stats]
International organizations have recently shown a great interest in matters related to teachers, teacher education, teacher salary, and teacher policy. There are two main reasons for this increased interest in the teaching profession around the world:
First, there are severe teacher shortages because teachers are leaving the teaching profession in large...
Genius Hour in Your Classroom
What if you could learn about anything you wanted to? What are you interested in? What are you passionate about? What do you want to tell the world? How are you going to change the world? There are only three guidelines:
Research something.Create something.Share it.
Welcome to Genius Hour!
40 Kindness Activities & Empathy Worksheets for Students and Adults
What do you think are the most important traits to encourage in a child’s development?
This is an inherently personal question, one that will provoke a wide variety of answers from parents, educators, and researchers around the world.
There are so many traits and abilities that can add to a...
