Jefferson High School Instructional Coaches

This a great read.

Let’s Give Our Teaching Language a Makeover To master this craft, we need to choose our words carefully. This mini-makeover shows how revising our language in common classroom scenarios can send a completely different message.

Teaching a Class With Big Ability Differences Practical strategies you can use.

Tried and true, but good to occasionally revisit norms for successful use in the classroom.

In Praise of Think-Pair-Share Celebrating Think-Pair-Share, the Little Strategy That Could, and sharing some best practices for making it work for you.

Some simple but effective reminders.

Beyond Q+A: Six Strategies That Motivate ALL Students to Participate Teacher and author Maddie Witter offers six strategies to increase student participation - especially among those students who are generally too shy or withdrawn to speak up.

This was a great read, very timely. I do understand that some people feel frustrated reading "don't" lists because there is not enough "do" so check out the link at the bottom of the article.

Culturally Responsive Teaching: 4 Misconceptions In some cases, teachers think they're practicing culturally responsive teaching, when in fact, they're kind of not. Zaretta Hammond helps clear things up.

https://www.blog.google/topics/education/10-ways-were-making-classroom-and-forms-easier-teachers-school-year/

Some good news.

10 ways we’re making Classroom and Forms easier for teachers this school year Today we’re excited to announce 10 updates to Google Classroom and Google Forms designed to make teachers’ lives easier this school year.

This might come in handy.

A Collection of Resources for Teaching Social Justice Want your students to actively engage in addressing inequality? Explore this annotated bibliography of resources for teaching students about social justice.

This is long, but has a lot of great advice. It's also very relatable. I feel. Especially #2.

Reflections and Suggestions for First Year Teachers I was asked today what I would do differently in my first year of teaching. My first year teaching is one that I would not want to necessarily do again (!) but one where I did grow a lot – p…

I kind of love this. Remember to have rules that reflects what's really important for teaching, learning, and good relationships.

4 Classroom Rules I Always Forget to Enforce - WeAreTeachers Maybe a better teacher would enforce all these rules...but I just can't. Here's what tops my list of bad classroom rules.

This one's for the English teachers

How to Deal with Student Grammar Errors Teaching grammar in isolation is not only ineffective, it can actually make student writing worse. So when students make mistakes, what should teachers do?

This was a good read. Extra points for the Reality Bites reference in the beginning.

Getting Critical About Critical Thinking It may not be easy to define critical thinking, but we do have suggestions for how you can teach it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/03/22/520843457/you-probably-believe-some-learning-myths-take-our-quiz-to-find-out

This was sort of fun.

You Probably Believe Some Learning Myths: Take Our Quiz To Find Out A new survey shows widespread misconceptions and unfounded confidence about learning.