Do you feel connected to the students you work with, your teenagers or any millennial that you come in contact with? The Pew Research Center has developed a How Millennial Are You quiz, the 14 question quiz is simple but quickly shows you a difference in generations. Looking at the questions parallels how the world [...]

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Educational Leadership:Multiple Measures:Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards
tags: digitalwhiteboard, Marzano, studentachievement

Using interactive whiteboards was associated with a 16 percentile point gain in student achievement.

statistically significant relationship with student achievement.

The first is the learner-response device

the second feature is the use of graphics and other visuals [...]

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Our director gave a speech recently that reminded me of one critical quality today’s learners appear to be missing that the learners of not so long ago mostly shared–a willingness to jump through the hoops. 
When I was in school, and even while I was teaching, most students had figured out that to succeed you would [...]

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While reading another blog this morning I came across a great post from a teacher who is using Wikipedia in the classroom. Oh no we may say, “Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source “and trust me I was that teacher especially after some students told me that Greek Orthodoxy was based off the ancient Greek gods [...]

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If you haven’t been to www.thinkfinity.org recently, you might want to check out one of its content partner sites. ReadWriteThink has gone through a site redesign and I think you will love it. If you search the lessons, you will notice a new little feature where you can now select the state standards for that [...]

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