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 ...
To Grudge, or Not to Grudge, That Is the Question
By: Mary McLaughlin | Jun 28, 2017
One approach to letting go of a grudge is to name what happened, separate the incident from your interpretation of it, and avoid repeatedly dwelling on that interpretation. For teachers, that means treating a student's bad day as one moment, not a verdict, and giving yourself the same grace you'd ...
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
"Provocative victim" is a term from older bullying literature for a student who is both experiencing bullying and engaging in provoking or escalating behavior toward peers. Terminology and definitions vary across the research, and the label carries a real risk of sounding like blame. It describes a pattern staff are ...
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 ...
Using Technology in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Honest Take
By: Michelle Areaux | May 9, 2017
Using technology in the classroom works when the tool solves a problem you already had. School-issued Chromebooks and tablets, shared assignment platforms, and digital texts can shorten feedback cycles and widen access to reading material. The gains come from what the device replaces, not from the device itself.
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9 Conflict Resolution Strategies to Teach Students
By: Jon Konen | May 8, 2017
Conflict resolution strategies for students are the scripts a child can use when an ordinary disagreement starts: telling someone to stop, using an I message, taking a break, or walking away. Calming down is often a useful first step when it is safe to do so. Safety concerns and suspected ...
Bystander Roles in Bullying: The Bully Circle Lesson
By: Jon Konen | May 8, 2017
Bystander roles in bullying describe the positions students take when they witness it: assisting, reinforcing, watching passively, or defending. The Bully Circle maps seven roles involved in a bullying situation around the student being bullied. Teaching students to name their own role is what moves them from passive bystander to ...
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, ...