Total Participation Techniques

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We can learn a great deal about appreciation for differences from the business world. Maria Bartiromo, described Jack Welch’s view of...

Does student engagement always ensure student learning? Not always. Students can be thoroughly engaged in your activity, and still walk...

Unfortunately, too much of today's teaching is characterized by a stand-and-deliver approach to presenting content, in which teachers...

Think about the typical question-and-answer session in most classrooms. We call it "the beach ball scenario" because it reminds us of a...

Academic language is a lot more complicated than it sounds. It consists of content-specific words as well as non-content specific words...

My daughter was born right after Chapter 6 of The Hobbit. No, seriously. Bill was reading aloud from The Hobbit while I lay there trying...

Great teaching takes intentionality, planning, and an incredible amount of hard work. While it is rewarding work, it is time-intensive...