Every year, we spend time at Mindsteps™ conducting student focus groups with the schools we serve on an ongoing basis. We conduct these focus groups to find out if the work we are doing with teachers and administrators is really making a difference where it counts – with the students. Every year, I am surprised […]
Continue readingAs part of the work we typically do with our sustainable PD clients, we conduct student focus groups to determine whether the work we are doing with teachers is actually making a difference for students in the classroom. So, I’ve spent the last month in classrooms talking to students grades k-12. What I love about […]
Continue readingGetting students thinking and talking about how they study makes them active participants in their own learning. This TIP sheet by Claire Lambert and Robyn R. Jackson has a few tips to help you get started. Principle Four Tip Sheet: Teaching Students How to Learn for Themselves
Continue readingMost of us agree that students need to be engaged in order to learn at optimal levels; but, it is often difficult to tell whether an activity will engage them rather than just entertain them.
Continue readingHonestly, most classroom rules I have seen range for unnecessary to downright silly. Do you really need to make it a rule that students bring their books to class? If they don’t, is lunch detention really going to solve the problem? Wouldn’t it be easier to just give them a book and move on? Decide on three to […]
Continue readingEver wonder how you could make your lessons as addictive as a video game? Here are some ideas for how you can do just that.
Continue readingWe spend a lot of time trying to remediate students who have failed or are failing our classes. I often wonder why we don’t take that energy we use addressing failure by doing what we can to prevent failure in the first place.
As you begin your plans for the year, take a look at these five steps to help prepare student for success.
Continue readingWe spend a lot of time trying to remediate students who have failed or are failing our classes. I often wonder why we don’t take that energy we use addressing failure by doing what we can to prevent failure in the first place.
As you begin your plans for the year, take a look at these five steps to help prepare student for success.
Continue readingIn Never Work Harder Than Your Students, (published by ASCD) Robyn R. Jackson makes a radical assertion: Any teacher can become a master teacher with the right kind of practice. This mindset is achieved by rigorously applying seven principles of the master teacher mindset to your teaching until they become your automatic response to students. […]
Continue readingThe following tip sheet provides questions to help you plan for your climate, instruction, and relationships.
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