Teaching Students to Fail ExitTicket Student Response System
Teaching Students to Fail I write on the interactive whiteboard as we discuss preliminary opinions Failure, when done well, can lead to tremendous success. The experience can be enlightening: It can lend perspective, provide actionable feedback and be the impetus for students’ drive to do better. But failure can also be a crushing emotional experience that cripples motivation. As educators, we can do a lot to see that our students take their inevitable and wonderful failures in a learned, optimistic state of mind. Teaching Students to Fail: Character Education When talking about failure, there are two names that come to mind — Levin and Seligman — though neither are losers. An example Scorebook that’s using the Learning Targets app Character education should be a thoughtful component in all content areas. Remember that optimism is a learned trait that your students need to practice. Teaching Students to Fail: Games Clarifying Big and Small Goals Learning targets are a must. Further Reading
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Each one of our made-from-scratch videos has been created to help you become a better teacher. We look at instruction and assessment strategies, classroom management, technology, presentation and design. Every effort is made to make each concept clear and simple. Most of our videos contain small, brief advertisements. All of our videos are close-captioned for greater accessibility — just click the CC button at the bottom right of the screen to turn them on. To view each collection, click below: Instruction and Assessment Videos Classroom Management Videos Technology, Presentation, and Design Videos Problem-Solver Videos
Design Thinking: Tools to help make thinking visible
The British science, technology and arts research organisation Nesta, along with European social innovation experts, have pulled together their top 30 tools for social innovation. Many of them have immediate uses for helping plan and structure design thinking activities in the classroom. We explain some of those that have the most immediate value for learning. The Why Design thinking is not rocket science, but when a school is trying to bring a concerted approach to thinking differently, it helps for people to have a common set of tools and language on which to pull or things can appear complicated quite quickly. The Experiment Teachers around the world have taken the tools and some of the ideas we've suggested here to help students' thinking become better articulated, to become deeper through feedback and challenge from peers. However, the following questions brought the smile to my face: "How has your level of understanding changed since learning about the Convicts?" The Tools Synthesis
Transparency In Leadership
Discussing Leadership at The Hub (CC) In the information age, transparency is becoming the de facto standard for business, government, agriculture, and other aspects of daily life. People don’t just want to know where their produce is coming from. They want to know who is running the grocery store and the other suppliers they work with. The values a company holds and how those ideals shape the decisions they make are important to customers and employees. Technology have made it easier for individuals to crunch through large amounts of information, and now everyone is demanding transparency in leadership in order to make informed decisions. Background on transparent leadership Think about the world before the Internet and the dawn of the information age. Even more disrupting is the ease with which information can be distributed online through blogs, websites, and social media. What is happening with transparency in leadership today?
Complete These Free Courses to Become a Better Researcher
A couple of summers ago Google offered a MOOC about search skills. The content of that course is still available online for anyone to use at his or her own pace. Power Searching With Google provides six units of study on search strategies. Each unit includes slides, videos, and text. Advanced Power Searching With Google is full of challenges through which you can test your power searching skills. Applications for Education Whether you are looking to brush-up on your search skills or you are looking for search lessons to share with your students, Google's Power Searching courses are valuable resources. Even if you don't use the entirety of these courses, you and your students could glean a lot information by trying the Advanced Power Searching challenges.
Why We Need to See Each Other Teach
I have always taught with my classroom door closed. Officially, it’s because I have trouble with distractions, which is not a lie: Just ask my family how often I yell for quiet when I’m trying to figure out my next Quirkle move. The unofficial reason is that I don’t really want other people watching me teach. Alone with my students, I’m a different person: I let my guard down in a way that I never do with co-workers, even people I’m comfortable with. My students get the most relaxed, funniest side of me, the side I’m not sure my colleagues would appreciate or approve of. Apparently I’m not alone. Oh, and he also wanted us to observe each other using the strategies in our teaching. People FREAKED OUT. Eventually, because it was mandated, they had to get over it. Here are some reasons why: Because teaching is such a complex act, the variations in how we do it are endless. On the receiving end, there’s something really satisfying about having a peer notice something you’re doing right.
