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- Improving your technology utilization
- A quick review can help you determine whether your school is making the most of its technology budget.
- By Chris Hitch.
- Cooperative learning
- Cooperative learning is an instructional method in which students work together in small, heterogeneous groups to complete a problem, project, or other instructional goal, while teachers act as guides or facilitators. This method works to reinforce a student's...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Digital game-based learning
- Digital game-based learning (DGBL) is an instructional method that incorporates educational content or learning principles into video games with the goal of engaging learners. Applications of digital game-based learning draw upon the constructivist theory of education.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Experiential education
- This article explains the history and theory of experiential education, which combines active learning with concrete experiences, abstract concepts, and reflection in an effort to engage all learning styles.
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Project-based learning
- Project-based learning is a teaching approach that engages students in sustained, collaborative real-world investigations. Projects are organized around a driving question, and students participate in a variety of tasks that seek to meaningfully address this...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- One room, many uses
- Patty Berge converts her eighth-grade science classroom to suit multiple instructional methods. A classroom profile.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Giving meaning to volume and surface area
- This lesson is designed to help students give meaning to volume and surface area by solving problems using a meaningful situation rather than formulas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics)
- By Grayson Wheatley.
- Team teaching
- Also known as co-teaching or collaborative teaching, team teaching is an instructional strategy used across subject areas primarily in middle grades in a variety of methods. Teams are typically composed of between two and four teachers...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- March Madness and relationship-building
- In The First Year, page 3.9
- Taking time away from instruction to build relationships with your students can pay off in the long run.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Why problem-centered learning?
- In Problem centered math, page 2
- The world our students will live and work in will require them to gather, organize, and interpret data in the process of finding solutions to complex problems. Problem-centered learning creates a model where the student becomes the thinker.
- By Mike Kestner.
- Paideia
- According to the National Paideia Institute, Paideia (py-dee-a) is from the Greek pais, paidos, which means the upbringing of a child. The Paideia philosophy “celebrates the fundamental notion that...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Kinetic connections: Bloom's taxonomy in action
- An introduction to strategies for using the web to push your students to higher levels of thinking.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Melissa Thibault, and David Walbert.
- Descriptive writing using landscape scenes
- This lesson focuses on the descriptive writing process through the use of landscape scenes, the Paragraph Writing Strategy from the University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning, and the 4MAT Instructional Model.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–7 English Language Arts)
- Montessori
- The Montessori philosophy is a holistic view of children that builds on natural curiosity and develops a love of learning by creating environments which foster the fulfillment of children's highest potential. History of Montessori In her medical practice,...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Celebrating the freedom to read
- Banned Books Week teaches the importance of our First Amendment rights and draws attention to the danger of restricting information in a free society.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Professional development by email
- Conducting professional development by email can be an effective way to reach busy teachers, tailor the content to their needs, and provide an authentic context for learning.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Play with purpose
- Electronic whiteboards make the internet an active communication vehicle of engagement and learning.
- By Jace Hargis and Tuiren Bratina.
- Quality standards for online K–12 courses
- Standards for curriculum, design, student assessment, management, and evaluation in online courses offered to K–12 students through LEARN NC.
- Format: article/help
- Copyright for educators
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 3.2
- This article explains copyright and U.S. copyright law primarily with respect to education. For a full discussion of copyright law and its implications, consult the U.S. Copyright Office. Rights reserved to...
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Quality standards for online professional development courses
- Standards for curriculum, student assessment, design, management, and evaluation of online courses offered to K–12 teachers, administrators, and support personnel through LEARN NC.
- Format: article/help
