How can I encourage more girls to be interested in Computers and Math? Reflections on the future after an inspiring webinar with an educator.
Tag: Education
This article presents the design considerations when planning lessons using Universal Design for Learning: goals, assessments, methods and materials.
The 1975 game Tenure offers the player a chance to experience the first year of teaching, with challenges ranging from being part of the Union to dealing with note-passing in the classroom. I played the game to find out whether it contains all the elements of a teacher’s life.
In today’s classrooms, we have a diverse set of learners and no matter how much a teacher would want to address the needs of all learners, it takes time to know the students and understand them better to give them the supports they need. This is where Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles comes in handy. In this article I explore UDL in theory and practice.
How can we truly embrace “By Teaching you will learn, by learning you will teach”? Reflections on Will Richardson’s book From Master Teacher to Master Learner.
How can we attain the state of flow in the classroom? What kind of activities should the students be involved be such that they do not want to stop working? As a learner, flow is when I am focused on my task, to the point that I do not care about the time because I am having so much fun doing what I am doing.
What can we learn from technology that will make history more engaging for the students? Taking inspiration from the digital fiction, The Silent History, I present here some ways in which we can be inspired by technology, allowing for differentiation and a new connection to the content.
Self-care ideas for preservice teachers: the habits I want to ensure I have when I am a student teacher. Routine, community and affirmations because at some point of time during our teaching degrees, we have all heard how hard student teaching is — building lesson plans, getting to know a set of students, and more.
The written word is very important. Inclusion today not only involves inclusive language, removing gender stereotypes, but also readability and legibility of material whether presented such that everyone can easily read the language of instruction .
Scaffolding is a process that allows the students to work in a contextualized setting and solve problems while focusing on building the associated skill, withe the teacher providing necessary support. This articles presents the theory with examples.
Differentiated instruction allows a teacher to think about a student in terms of their readiness (skill level) in the topic, learning style (how they prefer to learn – by writing or watching for example) and interests (are there ways to connect a student’s interest to the curriculum?).
Learning from experiences of one Math teacher and passing it on to others… In this article, I reflect on what I have learned in my Math curriculum class, from the book Math Mindsets by Jo Boaler, math teachers and my own math mentoring experiences.
Inquiry-based learning is achieved by posing questions to the students rather than giving them the facts right away. In this article, I elaborate on the KLEWS strategy, showing students the steps in researching a problem, finding relationships on their own and able to explain why and how.
Thoughts from Empower, the book: empowering my students and to help them own their learning; to be a guide to them; to still follow the curriculum but give them the power to learn it in their own unique way and to prepare them for challenges that we have not thought of so far.
I started my undergraduate education in Computer Science and am now in education. This is my story – a woman in computing science and of some of my friends.
Reflections of a first year preservice teacher: all that I have learned from my first term education courses and how they have changed me.
How to get the students away from the computers and into the present, to build a connection with them? I used the Sticky system to solve this problem.
Through A Teacher’s Hat, I learn from the teaching community in every interaction and hope that the articles here provide actionable ideas to teachers.