Culturally responsive pedagogy is a teaching principle that calls for teachers to respond to the cultures that are represented in their classrooms. This sense of cultural responsiveness is both a theoretical framework that guides teachers in their dail…
Collaboration is compulsory in this digital era to learn and…
ISTE standard for Coaches 4.1, The Change Agent, states: “Coaches inspire educators and leaders to use technology to create equitable and ongoing access to high-quality learning.” Performance indicators: 4.1.a. Create a shared vision and culture for using technology to learn and accelerate transformation through the coaching process. 4.1.b. Facilitate equitable use of digital learning tools […]
Program evaluation for an English Immersion Program to review the marketability and program effectiveness
Community Engagement Project Reflection Time is a priceless commodity in the teaching and learning arena. If you ask any educator, there’s never enough time to do something, to teach something, to learn something, to create something. The l…
Service Learning Service-learning is an approach to teaching that connects students to their communities (Fitzgerald, 1997) with the purpose of making a positive contribution. Vanderbilt University defines service learning as “a form of experiential ed…
Creating a classroom environment conducive to discussions is the key…
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those…
When I taught at a middle/high school, the 12th grade social studies teacher, who also used active learning strategies, asked to swap classes for a day so that he could experience middle school active learning. I assumed teaching 12th graders would be similar to teaching 7th graders, but with a bit more advanced vocabulary and […]
Evaluating the effectiveness of professional development can be time consuming, costly, complex, and inconclusive. An analysis of teacher development came from a report from TNTP “The Mirage” (2015) by surveying 10,507 teachers and 566 school leaders. Their conclusion was that “in short, we bombard teachers with help, but most of it is not helpful – […]
