All in For Teachers
As schools begin another term, some teachers will have new classes with new students; a fresh start and a blank canvas to create a masterpiece...or not. The first few days of class are key to establishing rapport with students and creating an environment conducive ...
One of the most frustrating things that I experience in my day to day life is coming across people who have been exposed to misleading information and chose to take it at face value. As human beings, we are very trusting when it comes to receiving...
The book “Make It Stick” by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel was published in 2014 and since then has become a widely-accepted source for teachers who aim at improving their teaching and help their students learn better. In the book, ...
Research has a lot to offer when it comes to effective ways to learn. As we have discussed before on the blog, we cannot just rely on our own intuitions about what produces learning (see this blog post for more on this topic). Therefore, as a teacher ...
There is nothing worse than writing that first paragraph of an essay. The crippling onset of writer’s block is inevitable, and can easily spiral into a circle of procrastination, until only one day remains before the essay is due. This is one of the many problems students ...
When I was in school, our teachers would sometimes let us watch movies during classroom time to add to the topic that we had been taught before. For example, in History we watched “Schindler’s List” after discussing World War II and Holocaust ...
