Teachers emotionally support our kids -- but who's supporting our teachers? In this eye-opening talk, educator Sydney Jensen explores how teachers are at risk of "secondary trauma" -- the idea that they absorb the emotional weight of their students' experiences -- and shows how schools can get creative in supporting everyone's mental health and wellness.
Here is a handy infographic we have been working on for the last couple of days. We compiled 32 educational websites based on the Ultimate EdTech Chart we published a few months ago. We arranged these websites into 8 different categories and for each of these categories we came up with four websites that best represent the selected content area. The categories we have included are : websites for language arts teachers, websites for math teachers, websites for science teachers, websites for physics teachers, websites for history teachers, websites for social studies teachers, websites for arts teachers, and websites for music teachers. You can find links to the websites in this chart.
Training, books, words of encouragement, degrees and certifications, PD, meetings, assistants, rules, policies, laptops–these are the traditional fare of teacher improvement.
But to truly improve teacher capacity over time in a sustainable way, it’s more about mindset, curiosity, and a sense of progress and belonging. Below are eight things I’ve noticed that every teacher needs in order to grow.
In today’s social climate, waiting for even a couple of hours to receive a return email can be considered rude. Add in the fact that parents and students want to continue discussions long after school hours are over, can make it difficult for teachers to keep up with the constant need for communication. Luckily, technology can help solve some of the vast problems it causes. Below are 5 of the best apps, both for phone or computer, that can help you keep in contact with your students and their parents quickly and efficiently. Remind Remind is a free way to …
Last week I finished a day leading professional development for teachers and jumped in my rental car. I was about to embark on a solo drive to visit family who lived a few hours away. Before pulling out of my spot in the parking lot I entered my destination on Google Maps and opened my Podcast app to pick a few episodes for my journey.
No matter where I am or how I’m traveling from one week to the next, podcasts have become such a huge part of my daily learning. From road trips and long walks to putting away groceries and folding laundry, podcasts have offered motivation, inspiration and sparked my curiosity as an educator. Those of you familiar with my newsletter know I love to spotlight podcasts. I thought I’d share a few of my favorites teacher podcasts to add to your summer playlist!
The podcasts on this list can be played in the Podcast app on an iOS device, played directly from the web browser of your device, or accessed on other services mentioned in the links below.
As educators, we hold a captive audience with our students. Our fear becomes our students’ fear, and our calm becomes their calm. Of course this is a burden that we have to carry. When most of us signed up to be teachers or administrators, we didn’t think that we would have to lead our students through events like 9/11, natural disasters, school shootings, and pandemics. But we do, and the reality is that this a burden we have to carry. We hold captive audiences whether we like it or not.
As educators, we need to understand that we are a role for the students and in moment of crisis, the things that we feel become the things that they are going to feel, so if we express fear the students will feel fear and if we express calm, the students will feel calm. That is why I think that is very important to know how to react on special situations since we don´t know what is going to happen tomorrow and today everything can be fine and in calm; however, everything can change in a second. As educators, we don´t only teach, we are also a safe place for some students and whether we like it or not, we hold captive audiences.
"Machines have become part of our daily lives. Many homemakers use a Roomba or a iRobot to sweep their floors daily. Talk robot companions like Tapia serve as useful companions who alert, remind, encourage and support their owners in domestic capacities. Interactive robots are making their way into schools, as well. Finland and other countries, for example, have already experimented with instructional robots. These machines ask questions, listen for responses, and read facial expressions as they interact with students. Educators have found five interactive robots particularly useful for academic and social learning."
iPad has been increasingly adopted as an instructional tool in classrooms especially in the north American context. As a versatile device, iPad provides boundless learning and teaching opportunities that were to the recent past unthought of. In today’s post, we are highlighting some of the basic skills or activities every teacher using or planning to use iPad in class should be aware of. For each of these skills we provided 3 suggested apps to help you cultivate the skill under question. Of course, the selection of both the skills and apps is subjective and based entirely on our own experience of using iPad and reviewing apps. The 10 skills we believe are integral to every iPad integration in education include: create presentations, create digital stories, create video content, create animated tutorials, take notes, create educational visuals, create digital portfolios, create books, create audio recordings, and create mind maps.
What should every teacher in the 21st century know and be able to do? That’s an interesting question. The original blog post was written by Med Kharbach in Educators Technology and re-posted by Terry Heick, from TeachThought. This blog has been adapted and revised since taking on a life of its own over the last year several years. It’s been used in several digital literacy courses in universities around the States and Canada and also been published in printed journals. The list should be evolving as we all must grow with technology, staying on the cusp, to do the best job as educators preparing our children for the new world. Thanks to @KFullerBCSD – how to make or teach with infographics have been added to the list!
Librarians do an amazing job at school. They are entrusted with various educational tasks. These include, according to Queen University library, help students with information-related activities, assist students in developing information literacy skills that allows them to navigate and search the web effectively, collaborate with teachers in creating challenging project-based activities, run different literacy clubs, build library collections and many more. In today’s post we are sharing with you this handy visual we published last year featuring a number of interesting web tools to help teacher librarians in their work.
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