Wed.Jan 01, 2025

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4 Essentials for Every Teacher: How to Design Lessons, Engage Kids and Manage Your Classroom

Cool Cat Teacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As a teacher, we must build our classrooms from the ground up. Today, veteran teacher and teacher coach and author of Always a Lesson: Teaching Essentials for Classroom and Career Success , Gretchen Bridgers, shares the four ways we build our classroom. From designing lessons that engage students powerfully to classroom management and student engagement, learn the fundamentals in this quick listen.

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Creating a Place Where Kids Feel They Belong

Middle Web

For educators committed to creating inclusive and supportive school environments, Belonging in School serves up 11 evidence-based modules with actions and strategies and a highly visual style designed to help students feel included, writes 6th grade teacher Ruth A.S. Miller. The post Creating a Place Where Kids Feel They Belong first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Jan 1, AP Calculus AB Problems with Solutions (Part - 3)

Online Math for All

AP Calculus AB Problems with Solutions (Part - 3)

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ARCGIS and CGCW1

STEM Minds

The government of Ontario has recently implemented curriculum changes to the grade 9 geography, creating a new course CGCW1- Exploring Canadian Geography. The new course has 5 main strands. Strand A focuses on developing soft skills, as well as understanding the geographic inquiry process and the concepts of geographic thinking. This strand is expected to be woven into the other 4.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Happy New Year! And Public Domain Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

Also on January 1st: It’s Public Domain Day!Every year, January 1st is P ublic Domain Day. This is an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain–free for all to use. According to Public Domain Review, here are some of the newly-available artistic works you might like a/o January 1, 2025: The picture above is interactive on the website.