Which means as educators we have to understand many of the potential barriers to both understanding and classroom performance. So below we look at 10 of the less common, “silent” disruptors of student academic performance—factors that move beyond literacy, poverty, lack of technology access, and other admittedly powerful but already widely disseminated ideas.
Great article.
10 Silent Disruptors Of Student Academic Performance
via TeachThought
A chart to organize classroom expectations for various activities
I love the 6-inch and 12-inch voices.
This is so true.
Instead, I have found that transformational teachers operate at the place where positive relationship intersect with having high expectations of students.
via Where Expectations and Relationships Intersect | Connected Principals.
Alternatives To Homework: A Chart For Teachers.
via TeachThought
This is a great tool for rethinking the purpose of assignments and the best way to achieve that purpose.
As school leaders and classroom teachers, how long can we continue to ignore core principles of intrinsic motivation?
via The fiction of most school mission statements | Dangerously Irrelevant.
Recent research in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience has demonstrated that deep reading — slow, immersive, rich in sensory detail and emotional and moral complexity — is a distinctive experience, different in kind from the mere decoding of words.
via Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer
via TIME.com
