Best practices in education

Which teaching strategies should you actually bother with? - Research Based Practices for Student Success

A cheat sheet of education theorists and their research based teaching practices.

Research based teaching strategies you can use today with a free printable chart.

5 Essential Effective Blended Learning Best Practices - Tips and Tricks I've Learned from Experience.

We use these teaching methods without realizing there are better alternatives. If you want to see better results, replacing them with more powerful strategies will get you there a lot quicker. #CultofPedagogy #teachingstrategies

What are the latest emerging trends in education? As trends to do, these are changing almost yearly. Consider how quiet iPads in the classroom have been recently, whereas three years ago they were going to replace teachers and were (unsarcastically) compared to magic. While mobile devices like the iPad can indeed parallel a kind of magic in the learning process, it obviously has to ‘fit’ into a progressive supporting ecology of assessment, curriculum, and instruction.

Too often, we are expecting students to learn material without asking them to do much of anything with it. Why is this a problem? Where did it come from? And how can we fix it? Cult of Pedagogy

When done well, co-teaching offers benefits for both students and teachers. When not done well, it can be confusing or downright frustrating for all involved.

We want students to work at their own pace, but when one student is significantly slower than his peers, it can cause problems for him and for his teachers. #CultofPedagogy

FUN activities for kinesthetic ways to practice reading and spelling!

9 Research-Based Teaching Strategies for Elementary Teachers

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It’s the beginning of the year and the perfect timing for some fun professional learning and team-building activities. Why not combine the two together with

Are you implementing reading best practices in your classroom, or are you still teaching old reading practices? This post explains both reading practices!

In an excerpt from his new book, Teaching Students to Dig Deeper: The Common Core in Action, Ben Johnson provides teachers with a better understanding of the nature of the advanced thinking.