EduTopia Articles: To Make You a Great Teacher

Incorporating the Calming Corner into Station Rotation

Elementary students benefit from short breaks from academic learning to explore activities that support their emotional development.

How to Get Students Talking About Their Learning

These simple strategies can help motivate middle and high school students to have engaging and productive classroom discussions.

Tapping Into the 5 Senses to Support Students with Disabilities Activities that draw upon the five senses—such as spending time outdoors—can be centering for students in special education.

 

5 Principles of Effective Mentors Great mentors cultivate several core competencies in themselves and their student teachers via a collaborative, supportive relationship.

 

Supporting Student Identity Development Through Moviemaking Personal storytelling is a hallmark of culturally responsive pedagogy, and having students tell their stories through movies makes it all the more dynamic.

 

How to Support Twice-Exceptional Students Common pedagogical practices that benefit all students may be crucial for those who are cognitively gifted and have a form of neurodivergence.

 

Teaching Students How to Use AI Responsibly Rather than forbid students to use artificial intelligence, an English teacher shows them how they can use it in ways that support their learning.

 

Communicating With Parents About Their Child’s Progress in Math Math can be an emotionally fraught topic for parents, and discussing a child’s performance with empathy can ease the tension.

 

Effective Professional Development on AI A variety of online professional learning options can help teachers get up to speed on the impact of artificial intelligence on education.

 

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