‘Classroom Leadership’ vs ‘Classroom Management’
Source: The @DavidGeurin Blog: 7 Reasons ‘Classroom Leadership’ Is Better Than ‘Classroom Management’
I love this list, and how it changes my idea of what classroom management can be like.
Source: The @DavidGeurin Blog: 7 Reasons ‘Classroom Leadership’ Is Better Than ‘Classroom Management’
I love this list, and how it changes my idea of what classroom management can be like.
An appeals court has agreed with an Ohio woman who said her parking citation should be tossed because the village law was missing a comma. Source: Missing comma gets Ohio woman out of parking ticket – CBS News I, for one, welcome our new English overlords. This is the second article I’ve shared about a missing…
6 Powerful Chrome Apps for Classroom Management For those of you using Chrome in their instruction, below is a collection of some of our favourite extensions to use for classroom management. Some of the things you can do with these add-ons include: monitoring students in-class behaviour, create and organize assignments, track students grades and progress,…
But in April this story dropped. Folks had begun a mild-tomedium freakout because the East Asian PISA math superpowers (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc), the people whose program everyone else was trying to imitate, had seen their scores start to drop. But now Andreas Schleicher, the official in charge of Pisa, has said…
Forest is a free Google Chrome extension designed to help you focus and not get distracted by Internet sites. Once installed, you can click on the icon to plant a tree and have it start to grow. Under the options you can blacklist and whitelist websites. The blacklist is to list sites that will distract you….
It would appear that Open Plan Classrooms (OPCs) are making a comeback. Or probably more accurately, they never really went away. You may have also heard of them being referred to as Modern Learning Environments (MLEs). I have no knowledge of their prevalence, past or present. But it is looking increasingly likely that your local…
What they’ve found is that an approach called active learning (also called active instruction) consistently produces the best results. This involves pushing students to work through problems and reason things out as an inherent part of the learning process. Even though the science on that is clear, most college professors have remained committed to approaching…