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I Want to Get Better at… Differentiation
This summer, build up the differentiation strategies in your toolbox so you’ll be more equipped to meet the needs of your future students. Start with these great ideas!
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3 Steps to Successful Student Collaboration
Why We Hang In There
Deep sighs, rolled eyes, slumped shoulders, and hanging heads, met with eyes yearning for hope… No, it’s not a summons for jury duty, it’s the reaction I get from teachers when I say, “student collaboration.”
#realtalk for a moment: Getting students to work successfully in a group
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The Best Lessons Come When We Least Expect It
Christopher Bronke discovers that some of the best lessons come from some of the most unexpected moments in teaching in the form of small gifts from the students we teach.
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Home Stretch: Finish the End of the School Year Strong
While it can be easy for students and teachers to mentally slide into summer, here are a few ideas for how you can make the month of June truly memorable, impactful, and manageable.
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Tch May 2018 Rewind
In case you missed any of the great ideas we explored this month on Tchers’ Voice, let’s recap our marvelous May lineup, filled with great ideas from passionate educators just like you!
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Back to School Starter Pack End-of-Year Reflection: Your Final Checklist
Congratulations teachers! You've reached the end of another great school year. Take a moment to reflect and plan just a little now, your future self will be happy you did!
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The Digital Civics Toolkit: 5 Resource Modules for Educators
Check out the Digital Civics Toolkit -- a collection of resources for educators to support youth to explore, recognize, and take seriously the civic potentials of digital life.
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Tch Tips: Four Ways to Gather Student Feedback
Why not ask your students for a little feedback about your time together this year? Try these 4 strategies to learn from your students.
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Starting from the Beginning at Year 20
Learn how two educators shifted to a student-centered approach to math instruction and how collaboration was key to their journey.
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Building Democratic Classrooms: Every Teacher Can Cultivate Civic Competencies
If the health of our democracy depends on the people, when do we learn the skills of participation? It’s time that we fully realize our role in revitalizing civic life and we can start by looking at how our schools and classrooms model democracy every day.
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Introducing our New Civic Engagement Laureate, Heather Van Benthuysen
Heather Van Benthuysen -- the latest Teacher Laureate at Tch -- will be sharing resources and tools, as well as provocative questions for us to grapple with, focused on how to build democratic classrooms and integrate civic engagement across grade levels and content areas.
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Why Moving Grade Levels Can Be a Great Thing
Teachers often come into the field with the perfect grade level in mind, but how do you adjust when it's not the right fit? Take a leap of faith and try moving grade levels!
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Technology Integration to Support Language Development in the Primary Classroom
Try these 4 tech-savvy strategies to accurately assess English language development over time.
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4 Tips for Planning Better Lessons with Purpose
Four tips to help you plan purposeful, precise and passionate lessons for your students.
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Tch Tips: How to Deal with a Chatty Classroom
Your students just won’t stop talking. You feel like you’re constantly talking over people just to be heard. We’ve all been there!
If your classroom has become too chatty, start by figuring out if the talk is productive or not. Sometimes talking is actually a good thing. If students are talking
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Surviving Group Work: Essential Student Collaboration Strategies for the Diverse Classroom
Strategies to keep your students focused, courteous, and engaged when collaborating. Using these tips can make group work less of a challenge for you and your students.
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Five Worthwhile Risks for New Teachers
5 areas of education for new teachers to begin taking risks right now.
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Confronting the Monster Under the Bed: Integrating Blogging into the Classroom
4 key tips to help you conquer your fears about integrating blogging into your lessons.
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Teacher Appreciation, Solidarity, and Strife in Kentucky
Kentucky teacher leader MeMe Ratliff shines a light on what Teacher Appreciation Week feels like this year for teachers embroiled in a political maelstrom in Kentucky and beyond.
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Dr. Stephen Pruitt: The Highest Distinction is Service to Others
Tch NGSS Squadster Kathy Renfrew honors Dr, Stephen Pruitt during Teacher Appreciation Week. There’s no educator who has had a greater impact on her #NGSS journey and work than Dr. Stephen Pruitt.
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If You Aren’t Frustrated, You Aren’t Learning: Flipping the “I Do, We Do, You Do” Strategy
Want to challenge your students and entice them to own their learning more consistently? Try flipping the "I Do, We Do, You Do" strategy on its head!
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Transform Your Teaching: Developing a Personalized Professional Learning Plan
As this school year winds down, it's the perfect time to begin the self-reflection process and jumpstart your personalized professional development plan to start next year on the right foot.
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I Choose to Teach
“What if you chose to teach, because you could be anything.”
~ Talia Milgrom-Elcott, 100kin10 2018 Summit
"Choosing to teach because you could do anything" --- moonshot thinking @KsCommissioner #100Kin10Summit @100Kin10 @TeachingChannel #tchngss pic.twitter.com/cuozQmnzCj
— Meg Richard (@frizzlerichard) April 10, 2018
Remember when you wanted to be an ER surgeon who performed on Broadway
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My Salute to English Teachers
In 1949, when I was twenty-one years old, I took a creative writing course at the New School in Manhattan, taught by Professor Don M. Wolfe. He had been my freshman English teacher at New York University, where I graduated in 1947, just two months shy of my twentieth birthday.
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Kicking off Teacher Appreciation Week with the Gift of Time
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!
We’re kicking off our week of Tchers’ favorite things by gifting you with time. Well, sort of! Since we can't literally give you more time in your day, or give you a longer prep period (though we wish we could!), we hope to cut back on your