Use this lesson framework from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, to guide your students through the process of generating and testing hypotheses to discover connections between concepts.
In this introduction from The InterActive Classroom, author Ron Nash discusses the role of iGen'ers in the classroom and how to bring them from being passive attendees to active participants.
Answer these important questions from The Co-Teacher's Playbook with your co-teacher team in order to set clear expectations and boundaries and to better understand each other as a team.
Complete this activity from The Co-Teacher's Playbook as a co-teaching team to take stock of your individual strengths and goals in order to better understand how you can better work together.
Use this lesson from 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning, Grades K-8, by Marcia Tate, with your students to help them decode multisyllabic words using commonly used affixes and roots and determine how these affixes change a word’s meaning.
Use this lesson from 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning, Grades K-8, by Marcia Tate, with your Grades 3-5 students to show them how to use repeated addition to calculate multiplication problems
Use this lesson from 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning, Grades 9-12, by Marcia Tate, to provide your students with helpful strategies to monitor comprehension while reading.
Use this math lesson from 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning, Grades 9-12, by Marcia Tate, with your students to help them apply algebra skills to finding areas of geometric figures.
This foreword from The School in the Cloud, by education researcher John Hattie, discusses how, with Sugata Mitra's model of schooling in the cloud, we can use the technologies that are now available to conceive of a totally different type of schooling.
This foreword from The School in the Cloud, written by a class of seven-year-old students, serves as an example of what students can do in a self-organised learning environment (SOLE).
Sugata Mitra, author of The School in the Cloud, discusses his 20 years of experiments with children's education observing the world as it comes to terms with an evolving Internet. From his “Hole in the Wall” experiment to “Self-Organized Learning Environments” (SOLEs) and finally the “School in the Cloud,” he shares thought-provoking experiences that show what happens when children meet the Internet.
Use this tool from The Novice Advantage by Jonathan Eckert to think through your PLN and how you can make it even better.eckert_the_novice_advantage_reflection_sheet.pdf