Bright Classroom Ideas

Building Digital Portfolios

Melinda Kolk - 0

Create memorable learning archivesYour students are creating fantastic projects to show what they know. You can take their learning, and your ability to assess their achievement, to an even higher level using digital portfolios. Portfolios have long been a mainstay in the visual arts, where skill and expertise cannot be accurately represented by percentage points and letter grades. Electronic...

4 Steps To Teach New Vocabulary Words Instantly

The Busy Teacher Team - 1

A standard English dictionary contains over 170,000 vocabulary words. That’s a lot of words for students to learn! While there’s little chance that students will grow to know every word in the English language, every one they learn helps improve their ability write, speak, and communicate with the world.To help students build their vocabulary, take them through the following...

Self-Directed Learning: An Effortless Four-Step Process

Centre for Teaching Excellence - 0

young college student leaning against wall

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.Step 1: Assess readiness to...

10 Tips For New Teachers

George Couros - 0

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 you do, it never really becomes “easy.” It is...

Creative Teaching And Teaching Creativity: How To Foster Creativity In The Classroom

Lauren Cassani Davis - 0

“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 multiple disciplines,...

Mobile Learning: Definition, Examples, Advantages and Disadvantages

Stephen Marr - 1

mobile learning - girl reading from tablet

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 LearningAlan Kay is the name behind the introduction of the mobile learning concept in the 1970s. He got into Palo Alto Research Center of the Xerox Corporation and teamed up with a...

What Are The Top 5 Trends In Elementary School Education?

Kate Barrington - 0

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. Keep reading...

4 Essential Steps To Decide If College Is Worth It For You

Stephen Marr - 0

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 to use student loans to get...

The Beginners Guide to Google Classroom

Lucie Renard - 1

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 don’t have to be a tech...

Teacher Salary Worldwide [And Other Mind-Blowing Stats]

Stephen Marr - 0

Teacher salary - man's hand drawing charts on notebook with calculator.

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 numbers. At the same time, young people show...