The Ted Talks folks have just announced that they’re starting to create free online games to play. Their first game is…okay, but I don’t think it’s anything teachers can use in the classroom. It will be interesting to see what they come up with in the future. I’m adding this info to The Best…
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How Certain Words Change How Children Feel by Terry Heick While I often talk about ‘scale’ as one of the primary challenges in education–and have also wondered about curriculum, too–a more subversive concept constantly at play throughout education is tone. As an ‘English’ teacher, I always explained tone to students as a kind of ‘attitude’ that…
Patrick Brown, Executive Director of STEM and Career and Technical Education in Saint Charles County, Missouri, oversees STEM and technical programs for approximately 18,000 students. His role involves developing integrated STEM courses, emphasizing critical thinking and real-world problem-solving. What does that mean? Click through to hear details on how to reset and enhance your STEM-based…
At the end of July, McDowell Technical Community College in Marion, North Carolina, hosted a party for something people don’t typically throw parties for: Applying for financial aid. The campus is often quiet after 5pm, but on this day, it was transformed into a loud and lively space for Latino families from the western part…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Is developing working memory in the classroom a waste of time? New research suggests that working memory is not as general as we thought, and that training may not have the wide-reaching benefits we hoped for. Teachers are often told that improving students’ working memory (WM) can lead to better learning…
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International Viewpoint: NEW ZEALAND From the beginning of the 2025 school year, all schools will be required to use structured literacy – also known as “phonics” or the “science of reading” – to teach children how to read. But the very nature of this approach to reading could cause bilingual children to lose their second…
Children love being involved in some form of art. From finger painting, drawing with crayons, or even forming shapes out of clay, there are a variety of ways for them to express their creativity. But besides happiness and self-fulfillment, which are given by creative pursuits, art activity has dozens of positive effects on a child’s…
Ten years ago Roy F. Smith, an English teacher at Round Rock High School in Texas, was inspired by the idea of putting a text under a microscope while reading “The Art of X-Ray Reading” by Roy Peter Clark. Smith, who has been teaching for 24 years, developed what he calls “spotlight reading,” a quick…