5 minutes of prep could yield a solid 15-20 minutes of thinking and applying and comparing/contrasting and intelligent classroom discussion. This provides an honest assessment of knowledge for both student and teacher.

There is a lot of throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks in education, and this doe apply with respect to technology, but if used purposefully, like for immediate feedback, teaching + learning are opitimized: youtube.com/watch?v=nhv-D-…… Google Docs

Despite my aversion to cliches, one might be appropirate here: work smarter not harder. This is a great way optimize student output, while minimizing teacher work. #Education #teaching

The teacher's purpose vs. a student's role.

Many teachers often lament that #students skills in #math are often too rudimentary to teach application of the math concepts, but procedures for things like standard deviation make no sense unless one knows what he's doing and why: youtube.com/watch?v=o_GFhU… TED Talks

From where does this ridiculous cliche about the definiton of insanity come? Doing the same thing over and over, invariably yields at least slightly different results and could evetually lead to mastery.

#WritingCommunity #writingtips #englishteachers Giving advice on how to write a good "hook" is tricky, as it is really a fancy wasy to fulfill any of the specific purposes of an intro, which often gets overlooked: youtube.com/watch?v=P254bk… #watch #like #comment #subscribe

With respecit to reading full texts in class vs. focusig on passages: No. Simpler is having students passively read while the teacher has them take notes on what the text is saying, explicitly. One method requires students to actively make meaning of a text, which takes time,

We don't teach addtion and subtraction outside of it's applications, so why do that when it comes to more advaced math? youtube.com/watch?v=o_GFhU… #Education #teacher #math

Anticipatory sets are one of those praised practices that, in theory, are practical but, in practice, are ineffective and only loosely related to the content and involve no critical thinking. They very much can involve cortical thinking while easing students into the content. ie:

Most people also don't know what is meant by group work. If I had students doing a literary analysis task based on different texts, they would all have to complete their own essay, but they'd have the opportunity to sit with students who chose the same text to bounce ideas off

The student that uses AI to cheat is the same student that would have copied from the student sitting next to him/her before Google was a thing, both of which were things that the teacher could only have prevented by closely montoring the students. Nothing has changed for the

Something that people who are interested in #ISTE25 might want to watch and talk about: youtube.com/watch?v=o_GFhU…

Regardless of any push in education to to promote HOT skills, many teachers default to simply teaching content relate "facts", the importance of which is overstated. Commiting something to memory is or applying a rule is something one does or does not. Moreover, many such facts

Every behavior is a learned behavior: even creativity.

A case for Common Core math and teaching things conceptually: Most students don't understand what place values are, even though they might be able to perform related procedures mechanically; they don't actually understand that a 2 in the tens place does not denote a literal

Amazing? This is a pretty low bar. It really seems that this is a classroom designed to simply complete arbitrary task after arbitrary task. The focus on damage control gives the appearance of a healthy classroom environment, but it does not speak to, nor does it indicate, the

You'll make it, so long as you have the right strategies. "Work smarter not harder" may be a tired cliche, but your educational program should require Ss t work harder than you, as the teacher. There are ways to achieve this at every grade level. I am more than happy to share my

It is my experience that classes during which students would never be on their phone at all had teachers that really were just doing damage control with the cell phones and very little else if anything. These are classes that are more or less designed to occupy students's time so