Grit and Growth Mindset: Deficit Thinking?

Examining the cultural narrative around these ideologies

As with most things in education, context can be everything. A skill taught in isolation from meaningful context, for example, is rarely learned, and often becomes grist for blaming the student for his lack of...

Author: Rick Wormeli
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Topics: Diversity and Social Equity Teaching

Tags: Student Motivation Rick Wormeli

The New Look of Student Leadership

Students learn how to be leaders without having to win an election.

Posters, buttons, rally speeches, and Robert’s Rules of Order have been mainstays of school-level politics for decades. Regardless of grade level, participation is limited to those students who are willing to...

Author: Sandy Cameli
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Topics: Student Leadership

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation Student Leaders

You Can Smile! Classroom Management Tips

We've all heard that teacher adage, "Don't smile before Christmas." How many of you abided by that rule this year, contending that smiling before the winter holidays would somehow make you lose control of your...

Author: Theresa L. Roberts
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Topics: Classroom Management Teaching

Tags: Teacher Motivation

Service-Learning

Research Summary

Service-learning is a teaching and learning method that connects meaningful, community service experiences with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility (Shumer & Duckenfield, 2004). Learning...

Author: Shirley Theriot
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Topics: Curriculum Family and Community School Culture/Climate

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation Parent Involvement Service Learning Research Summary Community Involvement

Bending Over Backward

Teaching about Idioms

Have you ever told a student she "dropped the ball" on an assignment? Do you encourage your students by telling them to "reach for the stars" or "go for the gold"? Your native English-speaking students likely...

Author: Melanie W. Greene
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Topics: ELL/ESL/ESOL Teaching

Tags: Writing Oral Language

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Instructional Leaders

Practices to support teachers.

"What's the point, Mrs. Adams?" asked Brian. I will never forget the confused yet honest look on my 8th grade student's face when he asked me this question after I had concluded my riveting lecture about the causes...

Author: Julie Adams
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Topics: Leadership Teaching

Tags: Teacher Leaders Teacher Mentors Teacher Motivation

Habla con ellos—Talk to them: Latinas/os, achievement, and the middle grades

Moving bilingual children beyond subordinated categories toward full engagement in relevant and authentic learning that embraces their communities.

Our faculty in the Education Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte often spends time discussing issues we see within our middle grades program, including with our undergraduate teacher candidates...

Author: Spencer Salas, Jeanneine P. Jones, Theresa Perez, Paul G. Fitchett, & Scott Kissau
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Topics: ELL/ESL/ESOL

Tags: Student Engagement Multilingual/Multicultural Parent Involvement Student Achievement Community Involvement

Easy 10-Minute Review Strategies

When using a direct teaching strategy, it is important to keep students engaged and check for understanding of the ideas and concepts presented. Eric Jensen, a leader in brain-based learning, claims that it is...

Author: Jill Spencer
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Topics: Teaching

Tags: Jill Spencer Learning Styles New Teachers

Heart over Head: Motivating Reluctant Learners

In the early 1970s, Charles Silberman’s book Crisis in the Classroom rocked the education landscape with its verdict that schools were sterile, dry places of learning. Although the claims of the book should...

Author: Charles Beaman
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Topics: Teaching

Tags: Student Motivation

Show, Don't Tell: Activities for Image-Driven Writing

Today's students must be able to learn and express themselves in myriad ways, yet reading, writing, and speaking remain the primary vehicles. Thus, language arts still...

Author: Carol Baldwin
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Topics: Language Arts and Literacy Teaching

Tags: Writing

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