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Come Meet Up at Empower ASCD 2018 in Boston!
Hey Tchers!
We want to meet, chat, and learn about what's going on in your teaching world. A team of us here at Teaching Channel will be in Boston March 23-26 for ASCD. You should know that we never leave folks empty handed, so you can expect to go back with
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Tch Tips: Creative Assessment Strategies
Do your students meet your test announcements with an audible groan?
You probably want to be more creative, but there’s just so much content you have to explore with your students and so little time. It may seem impossible to break away from those boring but efficient paper-and-pencil tests. But what
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Math in Early Childhood: 6 Strategies for Teaching Math Throughout the Day
Hour-long lessons? Asking students to work quietly at their desks? Not in early childhood!
Effective preschool teachers have perfected the art of infusing learning throughout their day so students can learn in continuous, small chunks while engaging in hands-on activities. Our latest video series, created in partnership with Development and Research
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Teacher, It's Cold Outside: Ideas for Relatable Science & Student Engagement
So much science to know (Teacher, it’s cold outside.)
Why icicles glisten and glow (Teacher, it’s cold outside.)
What matter makes up snow? (Your students will want to know.)
Why is winter so cold? (Teacher, you’ll freeze out there!)
Teacher, it’s cold outside.
Students never seem to lose their sense of wonder when it comes
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Setting the Tone for All Learners with Visual Cues
2014 Oregon STOY Brett Bigham offers great visual cues as special education modifications for the Tch video, Setting the Tone from Day One.
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5 Ways to Spur Student Growth and Opportunity Through Hands-On STEM
It may seem far down the line when we talk about career prospects for elementary school students -- or even for middle schoolers -- but many students decide on careers in STEM long before they graduate high school. Plus, STEM skills and digital literacy have a proven demand in a
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What Makes You Mad? Channeling Student Energy Into Action
When was the last time you asked your students, “What makes you really mad?”
It’s a question that many teachers in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) ask their students.
Classroom management is hard enough; why would any teacher want to give their students a reason to get angry?
Anger is a powerful emotion
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How YA Novels Help Teachers Build Empathy
We walk through our classroom doors and want to relate to our students. We want to understand their challenges, thought processes, motivations, and fears.
But how do we develop empathy for our students who may struggle with challenges we never experienced?
How can we understand their reactions, fears, and priorities if their
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The Top Five Things I Learned from a Five-Year-Old About Growth Mindset
The shiny new bicycle was forcefully shoved to the ground in disgust as Parker shouted,
I cannot do it; I’ll never be able to ride my bike.
To the parents out there, I venture to guess this triggers “fond” memories of youthful days gone by, but to me, not having kids, this
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Three Alternative Approaches to Effective Testing
Popular culture often presents school assessment in the narrowest possible fashion. Based on what we see in films and television, it would seem that assessment in schools is restricted to a narrow range of tests: How often do we watch students in fictional classes being told they have a pop
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Health, Safety, and Education: The Life-Changing Model Built by One University That You Can Echo in Your School
Sponsored content provided by Concordia University-Portland
Take a second to absorb these unsettling statistics.
Children ages five to 17 miss nearly two million school days annually due to dental problems.
More than 25 percent of American youth experience a serious traumatic event -- abuse, terrorism, divorce, for example -- by their 16th birthday.
In
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Winter Olympics: 5 Rings, 5 Events, 5 Engineering Challenges
"Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up it’s…” Olympics time!
~ Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
The Olympics are full of amazing athletes, but what keeps people watching night after night are the stories.
For two weeks every four years, households around the world tune in to watch. We cheer on Apolo
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Tch Tips: Five Strategies to Assess Young Students’ Learning
When we think of assessment, we often think about tests. But good assessment is much more than tests -- it’s a chance to discover what our students understand so that we can help them learn and grow.
Just like with everything else, assessment looks a little different for young students. Our squirrelliest
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Culturally Responsive Teaching: It Begins with Responsiveness
Early last fall, I had the opportunity to sit with a team of sixth grade teachers at a middle school serving a large number of low-income Latino and African American students. Many of those students were at least two grade levels behind in reading. Their low literacy levels were wreaking
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Teachers Who Stay Connected Teach Longer
As a new teacher, the demands of the career can be overwhelming at times. During my first year of teaching, I felt alone and I was unsure about whether I was doing a good job. So I turned to the internet, and I was both surprised and delighted to find
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Glowing and Growing Through Self-Assessment
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by Teaching Channel's Vice President of Engagement, Paul Teske
This summer, I was humbled and energized by the diversity, compassion, and wisdom of the educators that we convened as part of the Fab Five ELL Squad and California District EL Network. The goal of our gathering was to deepen our understanding
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Does the Language You Use Limit Your Learning Environment?
I have long been skeptical of the “One Word” promises made at the turn of the new year.
On one hand, I totally get it; it’s an efficient way to stay focused on personal improvement. And like any goal setting, focus is essential to success; we often try to do too
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Tch January 2018 Rewind
In case you missed any of the great ideas we explored this month on Tchers’ Voice, let’s recap our jam-packed January lineup, filled with great ideas from passionate educators just like you!
Six New Videos
Building on Young Children’s Mathematical Thinking
Tch Talks Podcasts
Tch Talks 22: Intention & Critical Creativity in the Classroom
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Project Based Learning: Assessment and Other Dirty Words
Assessment. Accountability. Benchmarks. Pacing.
These words all carry such negative connotations, yet they're a driving force in the world we must exist in as educators today. As teachers, we must toe the line every day between progressive ideas tugging at our hearts and external standards with accompanying responsibilities.
Is it possible to move beyond
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Tch Talks 24: Inviting Curiosity and Socratic Questioning Into The Classroom
What are the questions that your students carry inside of them but rarely ever discuss?
2015 National Teacher of the Year Shanna Peeples wanted to find out. What started as a small idea or strategy to help students build empathy transformed into nearly 15 years of work helping children -- and
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7 Ways to Engage Your Students in SOTU 2018
Do you plan to use the State of the Union address this week as a text in your classroom?
Whether you plan to view the address with your class, highlight clips, or simply discuss the main points after the fact, this yearly speech can be an excellent teaching tool.
Creative Ideas to
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Resources for Resilience and Healing after a School-Based Trauma
It was the 11th school shooting in the United States this year -- and it happened on January 23rd.
Pundits and politicians alike suggest that we, as a nation, are becoming numb to school shooting incidents -- that we have become desensitized. However, nothing could be further from the truth for educators, their
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Building on Young Children’s Mathematical Thinking
Children, even the very young, engage with the world in mathematically-rich ways. As researchers and professional development facilitators in mathematics education and early childhood education, we have the privilege and joy of spending time in early childhood settings and engaging with those who teach our youngest students.
Through our collaborations with
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Tch Tips: Engaging Students in Socratic Seminars
Ready to teach like Socrates? We’ve got the videos to show you just how to do it!
In its simplest form, a Socratic Seminar is a structured conversation that students facilitate through open-ended questioning, listening carefully to one another, sharing their thoughts, and making meaning together. Traditionally, the seminar focuses on
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Choosing an NGSS Course Pathway: Are You Robert Frost or Yogi Berra?
How might we use the 3-D learning vision to inform the NGSS course pathways we seek?
Back in November, I was desperately seeking resources that would reveal the one road that would allow our busy science teachers to deliver NGSS content — and all of its pre and post preparations —