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Video Playlist: Five Essential Practices for the High School ELL Classroom
Teaching Channel and the San Francisco Unified School District have partnered to share practices for engaging and supporting all students, especially English Language Learners (ELLs). In the first part of this series, we visited two elementary classrooms to watch teachers put the district’s recommended five essential practices into action (For
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Tch Talks 17: Collaborative Learning with Minecraft
Has Minecraft cracked the code to highly effective, spontaneous collaboration? Minecraft naturally fosters a community of learners, where students learn about what it takes to work in a team and collaborate in an authentic and meaningful way. Minecraft Global Mentor Josh McLaughlin joins Tch Talks to discuss how we can
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Teaching Has Taught Me... Nothing
It doesn’t seem possible that my time in the classroom is over.
At the start of this school year, I accepted a position as a principal, after spending the last 15 years in the classroom. At some points, those years seemed to zoom by, but there were moments where time
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Facing My Fears: Teaching STEM to Kindergartners
Do you ever wonder how you get yourself into some things?
That's exactly what I was thinking when I stepped in front of 21 kindergartners to teach a lesson I developed with the video camera rolling. I planned on challenging myself and embracing my year of growth mindset and learning from
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Video Playlist: Eight Ways to Engage Your ELLs
Teaching English Language Learners (ELLs) is important, rewarding, and often challenging work. In fact, teaching in general is all three of those things as well! So, while it's true that teaching practices that are great for ELLs are great for all students, many educators and districts with growing numbers of
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Teachers Make a Difference!
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a
difference in our lives.”
-- John F. Kennedy
It’s The Little Things
A thank-you note or a kind word -- even a simple smile goes a long way for a teacher. We often underestimate the influence of the little things or
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Integrating Scientific Argumentation and Modeling for K-2 Learners
The practices of scientific argumentation and modeling involve using evidence and reasoning to create and evaluate claims about how or why something happens in the world. For example, why did a town flood in 1915 when a dam was built nearby? Scientists and science learners develop an understanding of the
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Teaching About Teaching: Using Narratives to Share What You Know
Several years ago, a mentor approached me with an opportunity for which she thought I had just the skill set. It was a far stretch from my comfort zone and my knee-jerk reaction was to reply with a “thanks, but no thanks.” You see, this was at a time when
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Five Ways Teacher Leaders Use Storytelling
“Tell me the facts and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe.
But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.”
-- Native American Proverb
Leadership is hard; it’s littered with the unknown, filled with the unexpected, packed with the unanswerable, and bursting with challenges great and
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Flipping the Lens: Finding New Perspective On Delivering Quality PD
Did I just say that... and do I really sound like that?
I’ve always been told I look and sound exactly like my younger sister, just with darker hair. I’m still not convinced we look alike, but after listening to my most recent presentation, it easily could've been my sister speaking.
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Tch Talks 16: Powering Up Student Learning Through Minecraft
Kids love Minecraft. They love mining for ore, they love collaborating with friends, they love creating Minecraft worlds. How do we take advantage of that intense interest for the purpose of deeper learning in the classroom? Minecraft Global Mentor Stephen Elford, an educator in Australia, joins Tch Talks to discuss student
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Resources to Engage Your Students Through Minecraft
Listen as Stephen explains how to harness student passion for Minecraft in your teaching in this Tch Talks podcast.
Minecraft has altered my perception of the value of games in education and has opened my eyes to the possibilities inherent in leveraging student knowledge and passion when it comes to supporting our
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10 Tips for Finding and Crafting Your Authentic Story
Teachers are storytellers.
And like any storyteller, it's our ultimate goal to reach our students through our instruction. If we're lucky, we'll inspire curiosity and a love of learning that will last a lifetime.
Teacher leaders take their storytelling to the next level by sharing their practice, insights, expertise, questions, challenges, triumphs,
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One More Zero!
Editor's Note: Join Sarah and Teaching Channel in our goal to reach One Million Teachers by referring your friends and colleagues while earning more ways to win great prizes!
Dear One Millionth Tcher,
I’ve been thinking about you for a long time. I’ve been wondering if you would show up and what
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Tch Talks 15: Women Leaders in Education: Sonia Nieto
It was a Thursday afternoon when I interviewed Sonia. After a long day at school, my mind was busy negotiating what was and was not accomplished. Like most days, I struggled with my work-home balance and feverishly ran home to switch gears, quiet my self-doubt, and prepare for our interview.
Sonia Nieto
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Seven Reasons I March for Science
Science is an amazing thing.
It's a basic human desire to try to understand the world around us.
Why do we feel compelled to do this? To fulfill our innate curiosities? To leverage this knowledge to improve the quality of our lives? To explore the unknown? For each of us, the answer
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Tch Talks 14: How To Combat Fake News
In this Tch Talks podcast, we discuss fake news -- what it is, its implications for teaching and learning, and how we as educators can help our students discriminate between what's fake and what's not. We talk with Janelle Bence, a humanities teacher at New Tech High in Coppell, Texas; Joe
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Teacher Leaders: Know Your Story, Share Your Story
There are 3.3 million teachers in the United States, which means there are 3.3 million stories that need to be heard. What I've been wondering lately is, is it possible for these collective stories to become a critical catalyst to ensuring transformational teaching and learning experiences for students in this
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Tch Talks 13: Teaching and Learning With Minecraft
Tch Talks caught up with Meenoo Rami, Manager at Minecraft Education Edition, to hear more about the ways teachers across the world are unleashing Minecraft for deeper student learning and engagement. Gain insights and discover resources to help you leverage one of the world's most popular games in your classroom.
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Don't Miss Your Chance To Win!
Thanks to you, Tch is about to reach an amazing milestone: one million members!
At this very website over the years, you've watched your colleagues open their doors, share their practice, take risks, and help us all get better. You've added your own thoughts, ideas, and suggestions. You've praised, promoted, and
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Teaching for Civic Engagement: Petitions for Change
See Matt’s Video on Teaching Channel: Encouraging Students to Take Action
A petition is a concise, direct, and powerful tool to teach the essentials of civic engagement.
After going through a few cycles of civic engagement projects in my classroom, I found that what distinguished effective projects from mediocre ones was the
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Engaging the Community with Family Engineering Nights
“Now I understand what engineering in elementary school looks like!”
A dad raving about the Family Engineering Night
“Easiest and most fun event I have ever volunteered for at school.”
A teacher leading a station
“Loved how it got all members of the family involved in problem solving!”
A response from the parent survey
How much
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Tch DIY: Fourth Grade Math Routines
One of the most powerful things about routines in the math classroom is the structure of the activity stays the same while the content can change each time. Since the teachers in my building use these routines in all of the K-5 classrooms, it creates a structural coherence that is
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Tch Talks 12: Women Leaders in Education: Peggy Brookins
Education is something no one can take away from you.
As Peggy Brookins' grandmother once told her, the more you know, the more you're able to walk your own path in the world. Peggy's grandmother, who was born at the turn of the century, was her greatest inspiration. She demanded that
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Resources to Help You Celebrate Women's History Every Day
In classrooms throughout the country, the stories of extraordinary women -- from Abigail Adams to Carrie Chapman Catt, to Rosa Parks and Dolores Huerta -- are taught and celebrated as part of Women’s History Month. The argument for Women’s History Month is that it provides an opportunity for the exploration