Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

With all of the news on reading, how do we teach reading? What a relief it is to hear reading instructional leaders like Jennifer Serravallo talk about the artistry of teaching, how to overcome the challenges of teaching reading, and teacher autonomy and responsiveness. If you teach reading, Jennifer's show is a must-listen.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, we’re exploring one of the most exciting and relevant topics in education— teaching kids to code. Visit www.coolcatteacher.com/e202 Aditya Batura : Explore simple steps for teaching coding, including unplugged activities.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

You'll also hear ideas for helping children who struggle to learn and methods for teaching reading. She was my 4th grade teacher and colleague for 16 years. Mrs. Howard was my colleague at Sherwood Christian Academy and is such an amazing woman! I also send my condolences to the family of Mrs. Adkins in her passing.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 3, 2024

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, I talk with Komiku about her philosophy or music, the unusual music workshop she teaches, and her advice for educators. And the song we’ve been using has a surprising origin story.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

With AI tools embedded into student devices, many teachers are left wondering: “How do we even teach writing anymore?” Dawne Beck to discuss honest, practical strategies for teaching writing in todays AI-driven classroom. In today's show we'll talk about ELA teaching in the writing classroom.

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Computer Science Teacher

MARCH 30, 2025

One of the great problems of teaching computer science is that there is a limited amount of time to teach and an unlimited amount of things that can be taught. There is very little degree of agreement of what must be taught. Teachers do the best they can but there is a good amount of variation on what gets taught.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 20, 2024

Teaching financial literacy to teens can be made more effective and engaging by using real-world examples, such as interactive apps and hands-on activities like budgeting classroom dollars or planning events within a fixed budget. ” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Computer Science Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The tl;dr of it is no. At least not yet. As more and more people use artificial intelligent agents to help write code we’re learning that AI is not quite all there yet.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Digital citizenship teaches safe online practices for students. Games like Minecraft and Sim City can teach complex subjects effectively. Teaching proper keyboarding habits at an early age helps ensure students can focus on content rather than mechanics, supporting their overall academic performance.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher has a passel of online resources to help you introduce, teach, and reinforce digital citizenship to your students. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2025

It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: summarized by NoteGPT Summary In this video, Jacqui Murray discusses the concept of quick writes as a dynamic and engaging way to teach writing in the classroom. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Teach Hub

JANUARY 22, 2025

How do you teach students to care? Teaching students to care can feel like a tall order as an educator , but its absolutely possible. While teaching empathy might seem challenging, it can be incredibly rewarding. Teaching empathy is about creating a classroom environment where students feel safe, understood, and supported.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2025

As a pedagogical strategy, it can be effective in reinforcing critical thinking, cooperation, creativity, and problem solving–traits that are difficult to teach but essential for students who want to become productive, happy adults. How is it implemented The Roman philosopher Seneca declared: docendo discimus (by teaching, we learn).

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Middle Web

MARCH 27, 2025

Through a combination of clear explanations, real-life strategies and vibrant illustrations by Valentina Gonzalez, Welcome to Teaching Multilingual Learners breaks down the task of teaching multilingual students into digestible, well-structured concepts, writes Melinda Stewart.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The science of teaching reading is less clear than the science of reading itself. In 2000, the National Reading Panel, a group of experts assembled by Congress to explore the scientific basis for teaching reading, identified reading fluency as essential for teaching reading.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 7, 2025

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The need to teach responsible and ethical digital habits has never been more pressing. This shift changes how we approach teaching young people about digital citizenship. Richard Culatta This is why it’s so important to overtly teach good digital citizenship skills. The determination depends on how we choose to use it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Here’s the outline for a seminar I teach in schools before the holiday break, to excite teachers about what they can accomplish “the second half” of the school year: Every year, I make New Year resolutions and ignore them. Resolutions that are, instead, about my teaching mindset. What’s with that?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

And the tools serve as a particular lifeline for neurodivergent students, who suddenly have access to services that can help them get organized and support their reading comprehension, teaching experts say. From a teaching, learning standpoint, that's pretty concerning to me,” he says.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

169 tech-centric situations—tech topics most important to your teaching as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations Today’s tip: Evaluate websites Category: Parents When students use the internet to research a topic, likely they get hundreds—or thousands—of possible resources.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This hurt her teaching time, and she wanted to know if I experienced the same phenomenon in my teaching career; without hesitation, I admitted to facing the same problem. In my fifth year of teaching Arabic as a second language, I often reflect on how frequently my subject is undervalued.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, I spoke with several teachers regarding their primary questions and reflections on using AI in teaching and learning. Walberto Flores: How might we redefine teaching and learning? Keeping in mind these reflections, we can better understand how we move forward toward meaningful AI integration in education.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If we don’t teach young people the skills they need to evaluate information, they will be left at a civic and personal disadvantage their entire lives. Just six states have guidelines for how to teach media literacy, and only three make it a requirement in public schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Teachers and professors can make adjustments in how they teach that will greatly reduce incidents of student cheating with AI. Gallant co-authored the forthcoming book, The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI, with David Rettinger, associate chair of psychology at the University of Tulsa.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Teaching as Transformation That spark carried me into student teaching in Townsville, Queensland, Australia where I was pushed to grow in ways I hadnt expected. Teaching while still learning to manage a classroom and create cohesive, engaging lessons in a new environment was humbling and daunting.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

My first year in education, my student teaching year, was incredibly difficult. I continued to struggle with the mechanics of teaching, especially the most essential part of being a teacher: presence. I left my student teaching year feeling genuinely broken. I reread my lesson plans before I teach.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

as though living authentically meant I’d have to hide my queerness to succeed in teaching. While I envisioned teaching that challenged students to question and connect their learning to larger social issues, the expectations placed on me as an educator were quite different. She asked, “But what about your career?”

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school. Our principal recruits and advertises open teaching positions only to receive zero applications most of the time.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Teachers with math anxiety spend fewer hours teaching it in the classroom, so its important to end that cycle now, Robinson says. Much later, as a middle school math teacher, Robinson would cram before teaching a lesson; she was still hearing that long-ago teachers voice in her head saying she couldnt grasp the material.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If you’re wondering where to start, here are some good basics from the Ask a Tech Teacher international team: Integrating Technology in Education for Modern Classrooms Embracing technology is crucial for modern educators aiming to enhance their teaching methodologies and foster student engagement.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The core of teaching is instruction and helping kids grow and develop, and anything that pulls teachers away from that purpose is going to make them unsatisfied, says Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-author of the study. At least, that’s what a new study argues.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2025

It’s useful for teaching a plethora of subjects, from history to math to geology to tech skills. Just as important, it’s that rare fun lesson that teaches problem solving and critical thinking without the usual pain. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2025

Programs for Experience: Programs like the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) in high schools can provide students with early exposure to military life, teaching leadership, citizenship, and discipline. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. military academies (e.g.,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2025

How should teaching change for a group of students whose studies and social lives were disrupted by COVID-19 (and instructors who had a crash-course in online teaching)? Professors Try Restrained AI Approach to Help Teach Writing By Jeffrey R. How much should college cost (and what are people really paying)? Thanks for reading!

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