How to Ignite Your Communication with Students via Social Media
The biggest phenomenon about social media is that it is simultaneously underrated and overrated. While you can ignite your communication with students using social media platforms, the true question is, should you? There are four reasons why a teacher would want to use social media with their students: For sharing lectures, materials, and written assignments […]
Memorization Techniques to Help Your Students
Memory is a tricky thing. We don’t remember things we know are important, but rather those we feel are important. Thus, for young people with their frontal cortex still underdeveloped, memorization techniques are essential for school. Even for older learners over the age of 21, such techniques can improve what we retain instinctively. This can […]
Teaching Towards Different Learning Styles in Your Classroom
The modern world indeed works on streamlining and optimization. But that approach is anything but ideal when it comes to teaching. If you want to ensure that every student in your class reaches their full potential, then you will need to focus on different learning styles that they might have. In a broad sense, learning […]
How Teachers Can Be Effective with Positive Reinforcement?
Especially when it comes to novice teachers, it is fairly common to prefer positive or negative reinforcement, depending on your character. But if used without balance and proper care, even positive reinforcement can be detrimental. If there is no effective positive reinforcement, you will just be spending energy for naught. There are three things needed […]
Classroom Behavior Charts and How to Use Them
Classroom behavior charts are just a fancy way to call a scoreboard where you keep a list of how your students are behaving. And, coincidentally, even though it is usually used for younger pupils up to middle school, the results of using such a chart became better the older students get. There are three main […]
How to use Pinterest to Improve Your Teaching?
By now it has become a known fact that the best way to become a better teacher is to use every possible resource available to you. And with a limited budget, we need to be crafty. Using Pinterest as a source of inspiration, resources, and advice is a great way to advance. With Pinterest, you […]
History of the Classroom: The First Schools of America
Even though the roots of a modern classroom can be found way back in classical antiquity, what we know as “school” today is a very recent model. The history of the classroom is closely tied with social changes and is even changing at this very moment. Public schools are a new invention and only came […]
What Can We Learn from 2019’s National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson?
National teacher of the Year for 2019, Rodney Robinson, affirms a known fact. To be a good teacher you need to be an expert in your field. But if you want to be a great teacher, you also need to be a kind and caring human being. And while many circumstances separate Mr. Robinson from […]
The History of the Modern Keyboard
Very similar to biological evolution, technology is not a straight line where everything is fixed and reasonable. Some features lay dormant for years before they become useful, while others remain long after. A modern keyboard is a mix of these things and a very fascinating device on its own. Even the name sounds misleading when […]
Top 5 Websites for Teacher Resources
Having everything you need to teach is easy. You just need your time, a student, and a book. But when you want to teach a lot of students something quickly and let them retain it, you will need as many teacher resources as you can find. There are several types of teacher resources that you […]