Happy Friday. As usual we wanted to share with you some articles and blog posts we found around the web this week. Hope you enjoy. Why You Shouldn’t Assume Student’s Technical Skills Here’s a great article from over at Prof. Hacker that illustrates why students can’t be expected to have as much technical savvy as [...]
Everyone enjoyed the series on student engagement so much we decided to repackage it into an ebook that you could download and share with your peers. The good news is that since we already have the content we only need to format the book before it’s ready. Make sure to check back on Monday to [...]
For years baseball clamored about RBI men. RBI men were the cream of the crop. The guys who got the big contracts. However, about a decade ago, baseball guys started to look at things a little differently. In 2003, the book Moneyball was released. It outlined the strategies of the Oakland A’s – a team [...]
Happy Friday! We wanted to share with you some articles and blog posts we found around the web this week. Hope you enjoy! Pupils’ grades soar after introduction of free laptops Does an e-learning environment increase student engagement? And increase attendance while decreasing the number of suspensions in a year? Read how this Dublin school [...]
I think every teacher could be a little more like Mrs. Daily. She is an awesome individual. She happened to teach the subject I liked the least (high school math), yet she will always be one of my favorite teachers. She always made time to help me with questions I didn’t understand and nudged me [...]
This last lesson is the easiest to forget as you are constantly exploring new ideas for teaching your course. Be Yourself. You can engage students in plenty of ways. You don’t need to resort to ideas that aren’t you. If you are a funny guy, don’t try to be dry. It will come off as [...]
Yesterday, a local high school teacher mentioned how difficult it is to get her students to remember concepts in her class. It doesn’t matter how often she repeats her message or how many different methods she uses, her students always end up under-performing her expectations. Sound familiar? This problem is rampant across education at all [...]
Today’s lesson is a bit of a no-brainer, but because it’s so easy it often gets overlooked. Making your class engaging and interesting doesn’t happen over night. You absolutely have to take some time to think about and prepare for your class lectures, assignments, tests and other material. Too many times when I talk to [...]
Inertia is powerful. It’s nearly impossible to drive the speed limit on the interstate when all the cars around you are going five miles over. Inertia is the resistance to change from the status quo. Inertia is why it is hard drive the speed limit. Inertia is why it is hard to buck the trend. [...]
In fifth grade, Mrs. Baker used to read to us classic books for 15 minutes just before school let out for the day. She always had a way of stopping right as things were getting exciting. We would have to wait a whole day before we could hear what would happen next. Mrs. Baker left [...]
