YIS Professional Learning Page

21/07/2025

This page is inactive. I just haven't gotten around to deleting it. Sorry to disappoint.

15/04/2021

Sketchnoting is creative and fun way to help your students summarize key concepts and information instead of taking everything down word-for-word. Find out more here.

https://creativeeducator.tech4learning.com/2016/articles/get-started-with-sketchnoting?fbclid=IwAR1IPY5trju6k0SXf9YUyqdDZNXCm1zKCbD1jil9okEDUizLrpfXnJTVXk4

Use visual note taking to build understanding.

09/04/2021

A few weeks ago I spent some time helping a group of teachers think through some easy and meaningful ways to help students prepare for testing. This year test prep is certainly looking different but regardless, teaching students strategies that will help them in testing and beyond will go a long way. Here are 4 of my favorite tried and true ways to support students thinking when it comes to selecting an answer from a group of options. Heck, there have been times in my adult life these strategies could have come in handy! Let me know how it goes. Happy Friday! .updates

07/04/2021

Some tips to finish the year strong by allowing student choice.

The core concepts of UDL are particularly helpful for teachers moving between remote, hybrid and in-person teaching.

06/04/2021

Some new and effective twists on an old strategy that can easily be used online.

Whether you teach at an elementary school or a medical school, you've probably heard of the instructional strategy, think-pair-share. But wait! Does think-pair-share always boost learning? Read on for research-based tips on incorporating retrieval , spacing , and interleaving to make think-pai

30/03/2021

Great suggestions about active reading that could be applied to a variety of age groups or text types.

I’ve experienced the phenomenon of reading a text, but when I get to the end of a page or the bottom of the article, I have no idea what the text was about. I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. Yes, my eyes technically scanned the words, but I wasn’t thinking ab...

28/03/2021

From a research study in Massachusetts: Students revised twice as much on an essay when they were given a sticky note on their essays that said, “I am giving you these comments on your essays because I have very high expectations and I know you can reach them," instead of, "I'm giving you these comments so you have feedback on your essay."

From How to Develop a Growth Mindset with Jennifer Chang Wathall webinar available here.

Join Dr Jennifer Chang Wathall as she de-bunks common growth mindset myths and misconception and discusses how to unlock learner’s potential and embed a positive attitude towards teaching/learning maths.

24/03/2021

Great resource for social studies

Free. Online. Awesome!

15/03/2021

Interesting thoughts.

'It is loss of a previously imagined trajectory leading to a previously imagined future.'