Student Voice
Discover how students’ input and expertise can help shape their classroom, their school, and ultimately their own learning and growth.
Reimagining the Classic American Dream Unit
How high school teachers across America are updating this foundational unit, 100 years after ‘Gatsby.’Tyler Rablin on Ditching Old Assessment Systems to Build Student Motivation
Frustrated by the narrow lens of traditional grading, this instructional coach and former English teacher redesigned his grade book to encourage authentic student buy-in.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Creating a Student Leadership Program
These strategies for building leadership skills can be implemented as a elective or by creating other opportunities for students.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Promoting Student Collaboration With Reciprocal Reading Protocols
Opportunities to read and work through text with a peer encourage students to take an active role in their learning.326Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How to Engage Students the Moment They Enter the Classroom
Openers matter and set the tone for the lesson that follows. Here’s how to start strong when you need to.10.7kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Creating a Classroom That Is Student, not Teacher, Driven
Teachers can take a step back and create lessons that put student explorations at the center of learning.8.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.60-Second Strategy: The Hot Seat
Providing the active listeners in the outer ring of a Socratic circle a way to jump in with their burning questions and comments keeps all students engaged.
Student-Centered Learning: It Starts With the Teacher
Teachers encourage student-centered learning by allowing students to share in decisions, believing in their capacity to lead, and remembering how it feels to learn.24.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.3 Ways to Support Academic Talk Among Students
By providing opportunities for students to share ideas with each other, teachers create space for them to develop social skills, retain more content, and deepen understanding of the material.Reading the Virtual Classroom Is Hard, but It Can Be Done
Many teachers find it difficult to gauge how well students understand a lesson in an online classroom. A technique common among award-winning online instructors should help.11.2kYour content has been saved!
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6 Opening and Closing Routines for New Teachers
Check for understanding, manage your students, and build classroom community with these six opening and closing classroom routines.17.9kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How—and Why—to Introduce Visual Note-Taking to Your Students
Visual note-taking allows information to be processed by the brain in three different ways.7.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.60-Second Strategy: Participation Cards
A quick formative assessment tool also encourages all students—even shy ones—to participate in discussions.10.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.The Benefits of Reading for Fun
There’s a powerful academic impact, new research reveals, when students are voracious, voluntary readers.6.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Feedback Fridays
Setting aside time each week to check in with students about what’s going well—and what isn’t—demonstrates unconditional positive regard.434Your content has been saved!
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