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Edutopia's Top 20 Lists

EdutopiaSeptember 19, 2011

Tags New Teachers

In honor of Edutopia's 20th anniversary, we're producing a series of Top 20 lists, from the practical to the sublime.

Twenty of My Biggest Teaching Blunders

Todd FinleySeptember 19, 2011

Tags New Teachers, Teacher Development, All Grades

In honor of Edutopia's 20th anniversary, we're producing a series of Top 20 lists, from the practical to the sublime.

Twenty of My Biggest Teaching Blunders

We teachers make 0.7 instructional decisions per minute, according to research summaries by Hilda Borko and Richard Shavelson. We make them in contexts that shift from hour to hour in overstuffed portables with finicky projectors, after grading, without enough time to collaborate, without enough information and with too much.

Twenty Tips for Creating a Safe Learning Environment

Rebecca AlberSeptember 9, 2011

Tags Classroom Management, Learning Environments, Student Engagement, Teacher Development, All Grades

In honor of Edutopia's 20th anniversary, we're producing a series of Top 20 lists, from the practical to the sublime.

Twenty Tips for Creating a Safe Learning Environment

I visit a lot of classrooms. And I'm always fascinated by the variety of ways teachers launch the new school year and also with how they "run their rooms" on a daily basis.

Twenty Tidbits for New Teachers

Lisa Michelle DabbsSeptember 2, 2011

Tags Leadership, New Teachers, Online Learning, Professional Learning Network (PLN), , Technology Integration, All Grades

Teachers around the world are gearing up for the new school year -- but the experience is going to be vastly different for new teachers. Where an experienced teacher has the knowledge of what worked and what didn't, a new teacher is going to be bombarded with tons of new info and the need to process it! Not to mention, they will be preparing for the most important piece of all: their classroom instruction.

Starting the Year on a Positive Note

Mary Beth HertzAugust 16, 2011

Tags Classroom Technology, Free School Supplies, New Teachers, Teacher Development, Technology Integration, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), High (9-12)

Back in May, I asked readers to think of five things they'd done well over the last school year. I followed it up with a post on my personal blog reflecting on what I thought I did well. Now it's time for the school year to rev up again, and I'm hoping to not only keep doing what I did well, but also set some goals for the coming year.

A Lesson from the London Riots: Support New Teachers

C. Harry KnowlesAugust 12, 2011

Tags New Teachers, Teacher Development, All Grades

C. Harry Knowles is an inventor, and the founder and president of the board of trustees of the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation, an organization that supports new science and math teachers.

When one takes a close look at the faces behind the riots and civil unrest wreaking havoc on the United Kingdom, one sees the young, the angry, and the idle. An 11-year-old accompanied by his mother to court, a 15-year old orphan, countless teens fueled by discontent. They are the faces of a generation that society has failed.

New Teacher Boot Camp Week 3 - Using Storybird

Lisa Michelle DabbsJuly 19, 2011

Tags Professional Development, Teacher Development, Technology Integration, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), High (9-12)

Editor's note: See the full archive of the five-week boot camp.

Week 3: Using StoryBird in the Classroom

Welcome to New Teacher Boot Camp! Today we're going to be exploring StoryBird.

New Teacher Boot Camp Week 2 - Using VoiceThread

Lisa Michelle DabbsJuly 12, 2011

Tags Classroom Technology, Teacher Development, Technology Integration, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), High (9-12), English Language Arts

Editor's note: See the full archive of the five-week boot camp.

Week 2: Using Voicethread in the Classroom

Welcome to our second week of New Teacher Boot Camp!

Today we're going to be exploring VoiceThread.

New Teacher Boot Camp Week 1 - Using Wordle

Lisa Michelle DabbsJuly 5, 2011

Tags Classroom Technology, Free School Supplies, New Teachers, Primary (K-2), Teacher Development, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), English Language Arts

Editor's note: See the full archive of the five-week boot camp.

Welcome to the first week of New Teacher Boot Camp! If you would like to participate, please register: New Teacher Boot Camp Registration. Registration will be open until July 15, 2011 at 5 PM Pacific.

Measuring a Teacher’s Effectiveness Goes Beyond Test Scores

Elena AguilarJune 22, 2011

Tags Accountability, Primary (K-2), Professional Development, Teacher Development, All Grades, California

At the end of a school year, there are so many measurements which could indicate that a teacher was "effective" -- graduation rates, grades, test scores -- quantifiable and ostensibly objective. Whether a teacher was effective must definitely be measured by how much his/her students' learning increased over a period of time, but it can not be the only measurement.