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 ...
8 Questions for Proactive Reflection
By: Jon Konen | Nov 19, 2016
How often as educators do we reflect? I mean truly sit down and reflect on the decisions we have made for the day, the week, or for the past year. As our lives get busier, it seems we get into a “reactive” state. We only have time to react to ...
13 Manners My Mom Taught Me That Affect Behavior
By: Jon Konen | Nov 19, 2016
My mom, Pat Konen, helped me to understand that manners are essential. Being a classroom teacher for over 30 years (Kindergarten, second grade, fourth grade, and a traveling science teacher) she understood that weaving manners into her instruction supported her classroom management and even more importantly, she understood it was ...
The Teacher Team Rubric: How Would You Score Your Team?
By: Jon Konen | Nov 19, 2016
A teacher team rubric scores how well a grade-level or subject team actually collaborates, from Level 0 (no teaming at all) to Level 4 (weekly meetings built into the schedule, with shared goals and real accountability). Score your team honestly against each level, then use the gap to set one ...
Have Times Really Changed?
By: Mary McLaughlin | Nov 4, 2016
Today is a lazy day here in my home. Went to early church, went to the grocery store, went to the local waffle place, went to the dollar store, ran a load of laundry, and then put on my p.j.’s to enjoy the rest of the sunny, warm, breezy, Southern ...
Promoting Literacy Using Anchor Texts
By: Michelle Areaux | Nov 4, 2016
For most teachers, we spend countless hours planning and creating fun lessons for our students to enjoy. In reality, most of those lessons never see the light of day because we are forced to now design each daily lesson around a standardized test that, honestly, does not measure what our ...
The Best LIVE PD, EVER: 7 People Who Supported My Elucidation of Education
By: Jon Konen | Nov 4, 2016
It’s funny that in the business world when you steal other company’s ideas, you may see yourself in a lawsuit. In education, we encourage our people to beg, borrow, and steal successful ideas in order to implement them in our own schools. Since I started in education back in the ...
Best Technology Apps for Teachers 2026
By: Kylie Hall | Oct 19, 2016
The most useful technology apps for teachers fall into a handful of jobs: note-taking and study tools (Evernote), classroom management (Google Classroom, ClassDojo), presentation builders (Haiku Deck, Buncee), and formative-assessment tools (Kahoot!, Socrative, Classkick). None of them replace good teaching. What they do is cut down on the busywork around ...
Positive Phone Calls Home: 8 Steps to Start a Praise Program
By: Jon Konen | Oct 15, 2016
Positive phone calls home can be organized as a schoolwide system rather than left to individual good intentions. One principal's approach: ask every teacher for praise comments each quarter, have one person make the calls, and track the count. Eight steps show how it worked in his building.
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5 Components to a Great Weekly Lesson Plan
By: Jon Konen | Oct 7, 2016
One practical framework for the components of a lesson plan uses five parts: state standards, a clear objective, materials, assessment, and how it fits the week's overall structure. Madeline Hunter's well-known model lists seven steps, but this five-part version covers the same ground with less paperwork.
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9 Reasons Culture Trumps Strategy
By: Jon Konen | Oct 7, 2016
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This last summer one of the most profound speakers I have ever heard was Dr. Bill Daggett from the International Center for Leadership in Education. His words of “Culture Trumps Strategy” have given me a resurgence and confidence into education and changed what I have ...