For Teachers

This is a great comic that might be fun to share with your students.  Calvin discusses last minute panic when coming up with a writing block.

Here is a video of Rita Pierson, a teacher just like you and me.  She has it going on.  In this video she addresses an audience of teachers about the need for student connections with teachers.  Well put Ms. Pierson.

For those wanting to get a good, quick explanation of what PBL or Project Based Learning is, this is a great video to watch.  

This is by far the best Jeopardy review game creator I have come across..  You can easily create a review game and play with up to 12 teams.  The points are added and subtracted with a simple mouse click.  I use this game all the time.  I have used this Jeopardy building game with grades 3 to 12 and it works great.

If you have been in education for a long time, you will have undoubtedly heard of some "idea" that would "revolutionize" education.  In this video, Veritasium, describes some research into how students learn, how technology can help, and what the role of the learn and teacher actually should be.

Great satire about how teachers grade papers is perceived. We all know that most teachers do their best to have accurate assessments, but then again we have all had that one teacher who we felt was not actually grading our work. This might be a fun video to show just before a staff training on proper assessment strategies just to lighten the mood. Be careful though, this might offend some teachers so make sure you know how your staff would react to the video first.

Rebecca DuFour reviews the four critical questions professional learning communities (PLCs) need to ask to continuously focus on student learning. This is a great introduction for a staff professional development discussion on changing our focus from, "Have I taught that? to Have they learned that?"

This is a great clip to show in a professional development training to demonstrate the value of using data in the classroom. Teachers have access to more quality data than ever, on factors like student performance, attendance, and more. When used along with pedagogy, content knowledge, and professional judgment, these data can be used responsibly to improve outcomes for students. 

John Hattie, an educational researcher, discusses what makes schools and teachers successful.  After studying thousands of schools, teachers, and students, this video identifies what his data shows.  This video would be great to show at a teacher inservice to generate conversations on methods that might makes your educational environment more successful.  His findings are interesting.  A question that is addressed is, "What influences student achievement?"

Below is a chart that shows some of his findings:

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