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Angela Maiers: Learning 2.0 video Angela Maiers: Learning 2.0 2 Likes Audrey Watters: Learning 2.0 video Audrey Watters: Learning 2.0 2 Likes 5 Quick Strategies to Increase Student Engag… Dr. Richard Curwin is one scholar we continue to return to for advice on classroom management and student engagement. He’s been teaching and publishing books on discipline, motivation and classroom m… Discussion 5 Quick Strategies to Increase Student Engag… 1 Like Science Buddies Helps Students Find Engaging…    Deciding on a science experiment is a little bit like settling on a research paper topic for many of our students. They often need a little guidance to figure out what truly interests them. If th… Discussion Science Buddies Helps Students Find Engaging… 1 Like

Introductions Please introduce yourself, let us know a little bit about you, and where you are from. Discussion Introductions 41 Likes Google Apps for Education Group Google Apps for Education 70 Likes 5 Activities to Help Students Reflect on 2013 2014 is less than two weeks away, but before it arrives, we’d like to share five activities that ask students to take a retrospective look at everything that has happened in 2013. We selected the fol… Discussion 5 Activities to Help Students Reflect on 2013 2 Likes A Video to Help Students Put High-Stakes Tes… Test anxiety needs no formal introduction. Most of us have experienced it—and if you haven’t, you’ve at least seen the crippling affect it can have on students’ self-esteem and performance. We live i… Discussion A Video to Help Students Put High-Stakes Tes… 1 Like Asking Better Questions: 6 Ways to Improve C… Although many of us don’t realize it until we step foot into our own classrooms, we quickly learn that facilitating a lively, but controlled, classroom discussion is truly an art form. While most of… Discussion Asking Better Questions: 6 Ways to Improve C… 1 Like 5 Free Apps to Help You Teach Coding Many of us have become so accustomed to clicking or dragging and dropping our way around digital media that we’ve completely forgotten the fact that someone (a coder) is the reason it all works so ef… Discussion 5 Free Apps to Help You Teach Coding 3 Likes Simple Ways to Reach Your Challenging Studen… Simple Ways to Reach Your Challenging Students Posted on Tue, Dec 10, 2013 @ 01:26 PM     Email Article      inShare   In one of his academic articles, Andrew Burke reports that teachers make some… Discussion Simple Ways to Reach Your Challenging Studen… 1 Like 5 Things You Will Wish Someone Had Told You… It’s hard to believe now, but the first time I formally stood in front of a classroom was also the day I stepped off an eighteen-hour flight from Detroit to Taoyuan, Taiwan. Jet-lagged and armed with… Discussion 5 Things You Will Wish Someone Had Told You… 1 Like Spark Critical Thinking by Asking Students E… As an aspiring educator, I knew exactly what kind of teacher I would be: I would facilitate dynamic discussions; the students would not only read all of the assigned texts, they would devour them. Su… Discussion Spark Critical Thinking by Asking Students E… 4 Likes How to Put a Little Power Into Your Students… Every couple of days, I come across a new piece of presentation software. There’s Wideo, Metta, Prezi, Keynote, LibreOffice and the list goes on and on. I love getting my hands on new software, espec… Discussion How to Put a Little Power Into Your Students… 1 Like 5 Lessons I Learned From a Master Teacher In fifth grade, I had a teacher named Mrs. K. She was a no-nonsense kind of lady, but like any master teacher, she was able to maintain a perfect equilibrium of toughness and tenderness. She demanded… Discussion 5 Lessons I Learned From a Master Teacher 4 Likes

5 More Things You Will Wish Someone Had Told… On Thursday, I posted part I of Things You Will Wish Someone Had Told You About Teaching. Like I said in the first post, I know that having a copy of Roxanna Elden’s book, See Me After Class: Advice… Discussion 5 More Things You Will Wish Someone Had Told… 1 Like 15 More Ways Real Teachers Recover From a Te… We love our job, but that doesn’t mean that teaching is easy. There will be bad days and classes that don’t go the way we planned them—there may even be days when things go so wrong that we question… Discussion 15 More Ways Real Teachers Recover From a Te… 2 Likes