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20 Fundamentals: What Every Teacher Should Know About Learning. What makes a teacher successful?

20 Fundamentals: What Every Teacher Should Know About Learning

Having an expertise in reading, writing, math or science is necessary, but the ability to transfer that knowledge into another person is what makes an excellent instructor stand out. What good is it if a teacher has all the facts, but cannot communicate them in a way that others can comprehend? Aside from comprehending the curriculum content, teachers should have a basic understanding of how people acquire and absorb knowledge. 10 Good Apps & Sites for Creative Writing Projects. The Library Voice: "20 Awesome Digital Tools and Apps To Kick Off The New Year"....Join Us For... What is Cortana? Cortana is your clever new personal assistant.

What is Cortana?

Cortana will help you find things on your PC, manage your calendar, track packages, find files, chat with you, and tell jokes. The more you use Cortana, the more personalized your experience will be. A Vision of Students Today. Throwing Away the "Magic List" DigiLit Books - Google Slides. How to Create Online Collaborative Whiteboards. 20 YouTube Channels for Educators. Before You Hand Out Grades – Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension. Fun Assessment for Silent Sustained Reading. My 90 minute English class begins with 15 minutes of silent sustained reading every day.

Fun Assessment for Silent Sustained Reading

I prioritize this time because I know students won’t love every book we read as part of our curriculum. I want to give them the opportunity and time to read anything that interests them. They can read whatever they want…graphic novels, biographies, popular young adult books or science fiction. My only request is that they select books that are at or above their reading level. My students LOVE silent sustained reading. Why Picture Books – 5 Reasons Why They Belong in Every Classroom – Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension. I don’t remember when I fell out of love with picture books, but I do remember wondering why any teacher would invest any money in them if they were not teaching young kids.

Why Picture Books – 5 Reasons Why They Belong in Every Classroom – Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension

After all, picture books are so expensive and there is not much to them. No, I would rather invest my money in chapter books, that is where you get the most value. Hook vs. Do Now: Why Inquiry Trumps Compliance. The first lesson I ever taught was in Pachamama, Ecuador.

Hook vs. Do Now: Why Inquiry Trumps Compliance

I was a wet behind the ears Peace Corps volunteer, and it was my first charla, or workshop. I was delivering a presentation on the importance of cropping sheep tails to a group of seasoned campesinos, who obviously knew far more about ovine management than I ever would. They were native Quechua speakers who understood un poco español, while I only knew two indigenous terms* and garbled a rather rudimentary version of Spanglish. If that weren’t bad enough, I was also suffering from an explosive case of Atawalpa’s revenge, South America’s counterpart to that of our old friend Montezuma. Needless to say, it was going to be a tough sell. Cloud 1.