An Educators Guide To Twitter. Ten Tips for Becoming a Connected Educator. We all know that education budgets are getting cut more and more, and that meaningful professional-development opportunities have unfortunately become a bit of an oxymoron in education.
Not only can being a "connected educator" help change that, but it can also provide you with ongoing inspiration and support. I'd even go as far to argue that being connected will be the most impactful thing you can do in your career. So with all of that said, I'd like to provide you with these ten tips on how you can get connected -- starting tomorrow. 1. Embrace Making Mistakes I've been in so many meetings with educators who talk about the power of making mistakes. 2. When I teach others how to get started using social media for professional development, many request a manual of some sort -- a detailed step-by-step account that tells you exactly what you need to do. 3.
I recently heard this playful metaphor of a puppy getting loose for the first time to describe how people should use social media. Beautiful web-based timeline software. Prevent Cheating. Description A 1998 national survey found that four out of five top high school students admitted to cheating at some point.
In another nationwide study, nine out of ten high school teachers acknowledged that cheating is a problem in their school. Is cheating a problem in your school? Has the Internet added a new dimension to the problem? Education World explored that issue with students, teachers, and other experts who offered workable strategies to curb cheating. Learn More About Strategies to Curb Cheating Cheating in the Classroom: How to Prevent It (and How to Handle It If It Happens) "We sometimes forget the seriousness of not preventing and handling cheating in our classrooms," says classroom management expert Howard Seeman.
Uniting Against Cheating When students complained about the level of cheating, principal John J. Put an End to Plagiarism in Your Classroom Students plagiarize for a variety of reasons. What Can We Do to Curb Student Cheating? A Humorous Look At The 20 Types Of Teacher. Forgetful Teacher, Tech-Addict Teacher & 18 Other Teacher Stereotypes Ed note: This post has been republished from a late 2012 post 1.
Crazy Teacher This is the teacher whose class you don’t miss. The one that roller skates into class on the first day of school tossing out goodie bags of highlighters and breath mints, and swigs Mountain Dew right out of the 2-liter bottle before putting it back in her purse. 2. While being talkative can stifle a student’s opportunity to learn—students do their best to keep the Talkative Teacher going: the more the teacher talks, the less students have to work. 3.
This is the one who mocks the principal when they turn their back, thumbs their nose at “the state,” and encourages students to stand on their desks and rip their SpringBoard book into pieces. 4. If you do not learn to read Chaucer or solve theorems with the same urgency as the Fire-and-Brimstone teacher, you’ll fail. NOTE: If you’re easily offended, don’t watch the video. 5. 6. 7. Join the largest learning event in history, Dec 8-14, 2014.