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Harnessing the Power of AI Tools for Teachers
By: Teacher.org Staff | Apr 11, 2024
For most teachers, the initial reaction to artificial intelligence was horror. After all, if AI was able to write assignments in an instant, or pass standardized exams, the possibilities for students cheating skyrocketed.
But on reflection, AI has more to offer to teachers and students through legitimate educational uses than illicit ones.
The key challenge for teachers today is to identify those uses and ...
20 Ideas to Successfully Use Bully Data
By: Jon Konen | Jun 28, 2017
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Data, data, data….it can be cumbersome and it can consume you. How can you make the data you collect work for you? Many times people collect data and never use it. This is a waste of your time and possibly others as well! Get rid ...
Provocative Victims and 7+ Practices for Victory
By: Jon Konen | May 25, 2017
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Why does it seem some bully incidents are so hard to solve? Parents and students get upset with the school because they cannot stop the bully behaviors. When the school staff digs deeper, they find information that blurs the line between the student doing the ...
Top Ten English Language Arts Lesson Plan Makers on TeachersPayTeachers.com
By: Kylie Hall | May 22, 2017
If you are a teacher at the secondary level and you haven’t at least explored using Teachers Pay Teachers, you are making a mistake. The website is a marketplace full of teachers and educators from around the country who share lesson plans, activity guides, original quizzes and much more. For ...
Embracing the Age of Technology in the Classroom
By: Michelle Areaux | May 9, 2017
It seems everywhere you look in our society, kids have their noses stuck in a cell phone or iPad or another type of electronic device. We’ve all seen the hilarious videos of people falling into water founts at the mall while scrolling through their phones, or the photos of kids ...
9 Strategies We Can Teach Students to Problem Solve
By: Jon Konen | May 8, 2017
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In the school setting and in life in general, a parent or teacher cannot be with a student 24 hours a day for 365 days a year. We must empower our students to deal with conflict and problem solve. We know that students can solve ...
#1 Instructional Lesson for All Students on Bully Prevention
By: Jon Konen | May 8, 2017
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What is the most impactful Bully Prevention Lesson you have ever taught? What made it effective? What evidence do you have that proves your opinion?
If there were one lesson that I would recommend be taught to all students, it is a Bully Circle Lesson. We ...
11 Communication Strategies to Combat Bullying
By: Jon Konen | May 8, 2017
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If communication is the key to being proactive in stopping bullying behaviors, then why is it so hard to end? When bully behaviors continue, we definitely get frustrated on our next steps to stop them. I believe communication can solve this problem. It must include ...
Quit or Stay? Battle – Special Education
By: Mary McLaughlin | Mar 13, 2017
Once upon a time, long, long ago there was a little school in a land far, far away near a lake known for its greatness. It was a school run by the Very Well-Regarded Entity and was granted the ability to exist by an organization which had a big stake ...
Character in the Classroom
By: Tricia Koechig | Mar 13, 2017
We have just begun our literary unit of recognizing and identifying major and minor characters in a story and analyzing their character traits. As a Fifth-grade teacher, studying characters and their development throughout a literary piece is essential to expand the thought processes of my students. They may be 10, ...
Getting the New Kid
By: Mary McLaughlin | Mar 3, 2017
There are days in our teaching careers when all we can do is go home and cry.
In some cases we may cry because of what our colleagues have said or done, or we may cry because we have somehow failed our students. We may cry because of the stressors of ...