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Banned Books Week: More Than The Freedom To Read
Discover how you can help students access texts that can have meaningful impact.
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Three Tips to Help New Teachers Collaborate With Colleagues
Three tips for new teachers to help you collaborate with your colleagues without feeling intimidated by strong personalities or years of experience.
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Building the System: Organizing Your Resources and Materials
Organizing your resources is sometimes a chore, but one that will pay you back in time saved in the future.
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Five Key Ingredients for a Well-Managed Classroom
You stand in front of your class, ready to dive into the lesson for the day. Before you speak your first complete sentence, two students start an audible conversation in the back of the room. And from the corner of your eye, you notice a boy in the front taking
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Hurricanes Irma & Harvey: How To Help
Hurricane Harvey has devastated schools and the lives of teachers and students. Here's how you can help.
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NGSS: From Theory to Practice
Learn how quality resources and professional learning help teachers shift their practice.
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Be Your Own Mentor
Learn what resources you need, what connections to make, and the types of questions you can ask to get the support you need if your district expects you to be independent and “go it alone.”
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Three Tips To Turn Your Conference Learning Into School-Level Action
Turn your conference learning into classroom and school-level action. Find out how.
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Tch Tips: Planning Engaging Lessons
Follow these five tips and get inspired to create engaging lesson plans.
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Are You Prepared to Talk About Race?
Teachers need to talk with their students about race. Find out what you need to know before you begin.
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Social Justice: Lesson Planning Resources
Tools to help you teach about, for, and with social justice in the wake of Charlottesville and all year long.
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Dig Into Number Talks!
What strategies are you planning for building number sense and problem-solving skills this year? Check out our Number Talks collection to see a daily, short, structured way for students to talk about math with their peers.
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The Great American Solar Eclipse: Across the Curriculum
Find out how the solar eclipse of 2017 can make the start of the year a bright spot -- all across the curriculum -- that students won’t soon to forget.
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Five Tips to Encourage Positive Classroom Culture
“Student approved” strategies to help all teachers -- especially new teachers -- build supportive, engaging learning spaces.
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Top Videos of 2017: Back-to-School Review
Back-to-School time is the perfect opportunity to take a look back at some of your favorite Teaching Channel videos. Start your new school year off right by watching our most popular videos of 2017 (so far).
The Most Watched Video In Every Month of 2017 So Far
New Teacher Survival Guide: Classroom Management
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One in a Million Giveaway: Contest Winners!
There's no better time to celebrate our One In A Million winners than as they head back to their classrooms to do what they do best!
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Words Matter: Quality Instruction for English Language Learners
Last spring, as I renewed my National Board Certification, I was struck by how much has changed in the landscape of public education since I was first certified ten years ago. In 2007, I passed the testing center components of the NBPTS process just fine, but I remember being concerned
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Video Reflection: Early Engineers
The noisy environment is filled with excitement and questioning. Designers create, collaborate, and redesign their models based on new information. Engineers discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their designs. Scientists conduct and evaluate experiments.
Sound like a wonderful place to work?
Well... it is!
Welcome to my first grade classroom, where six-year-olds make
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Tch on the Beach: Sizzlin' Summer Resources
Teacher life.
It’s almost the end of July, so that means:
You’re still having fun in the sun and enjoying some well-deserved downtime
You’ve already begun your preparations for the coming school year
No matter which category you find yourself in, this fun and upbeat collection of resources -- all crowdsourced from the Tch Team
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Teaching Channel Enters A New Era
Teaching Channel was founded on the belief that giving educators a chance to see and reflect on classroom practice in action would have a profound impact on the profession.
You, the million-strong Teaching Channel community, have borne out that vision. You come to our website and watch our videos to learn
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Tch Is One Million Strong Today
What Does One Million Mean?
Metaphorically, one million represents an incomprehensibly large number, as in “Never in a million years” or “You’re one in a million.” We might say, “I’ve walked a million miles” to depict an extreme, or pronounce, “That’s the million-dollar question” to articulate a crucial need for a
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Reflections on Teaching for Civic Engagement
See Matt’s Video on Teaching Channel: Encouraging Students to Take Action
Each year, I'm so impressed with what my students produce as a result of their work learning about civic engagement and the culmination of that work, the Taking Action Project. As I close the Teaching for Civic Engagement series, I'd like
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Teaching for Civic Engagement: Taking Action Project
As I’ve been writing about in this Teaching for Civic Engagement blog series, I’m thinking about civic engagement throughout the school year. However, if you ask the students in my class, “What do you do for civic engagement?” they would probably say the Taking Action Project. The Taking Action Project
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Tch DIY: Number Routines... It's a Wrap!
This is a bittersweet post, as it marks the final set of videos from my Math Routines video series from this past school year. I learned so much over the course of the year while filming and working with teachers and students across grades K-4 on these Number Routines:
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second
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Tch Talks 21: A Student's Perspective on SEL in the Classroom
Does social-emotional learning really make a difference for at-risk students? In Part Three of our series on Social and Emotional Learning, Daniel McCutchen, a recently graduated student from Austin High School in Austin, Texas, joins Tch Talks to discuss his experiences in an intentional SEL-dedicated course. Daniel is not only