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Back to SearchEduTip 27: Get Better Participation with Icons
If you're doing an activity that requires students or participants to volunteer to participate, this is a fun way to choose them.
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1 year ago
246: How to Keep Teaching Well When DEI is Under Attack
Recent executive orders have launched an attack on teaching for diversity, equity, and inclusion. How do you teach at this precarious time in history…
1 year ago
245: A System for Meeting Absent Students' Needs
You can create the most spectacular lesson plans, but if all of your students aren't in the room when those plans are executed, catching them up can …
1 year ago
EduTip 26: Give lots of quizzes.
One of the best-kept secrets in teaching is that frequent quizzing leads to better learning. If you can incorporate more ungraded or low-stakes quizz…
1 year, 1 month ago
244: Three Ways You May Be Cognitively Overloading Your Students
When we make certain choices, often without even realizing it, we can turn a teaching moment from one that should be clear into one that's confusing.…
1 year, 1 month ago
EduTip 25: Use neutral language to keep things cool.
In a classroom that is emotionally "cool," no one is preoccupied with any kind of anger, hurt feelings, anxiety, or fear, and this frees them up to…
1 year, 1 month ago
243: Small Changes to Make Your Classroom More Neurodiversity-Affirming
As our understanding of the human mind gets more sophisticated and nuanced, we're learning how to identify neurodivergence, how to appreciate it, and…
1 year, 1 month ago
EduTip 24: Use "I" statements to promote your teaching ideas.
As you move through your career, you'll discover new ways of doing things that you're excited about — so excited that you want to share them with c…
1 year, 2 months ago
242: How to Do a Close Reading Lesson in Any Subject Area
To become skilled readers, our students need reading instruction in all of their classes, not just English language arts. But if other subject-area t…
1 year, 2 months ago
EduTip 23: Calm an out-of-control class with a notebook.
When student behavior starts driving you bananas, and you feel like you're going to yell, this simple notebook technique can regulate your nervous sy…
1 year, 2 months ago