Brisk Teaching and Gemini are two of the most widely used AI tools in his district. Here’s how he helps teachers use them: The Chrome Extension Energetic teaching Additionally, Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence feature can generate fast and accurate translations for students who are not fluent in English. These translation tools are not only useful … Read more
by Terry Heick Although I often talk about Scale as one of the main challenges of education–and they also have I wondered about the curriculumalso–a more subversive concept constantly present in education is tone. As an “English” teacher, I have always explained to my students that tone is a kind of “attitude” that can be … Read more
Spotlight reading works best when it’s done every week and throughout the school year. “Kids get into routines and think, see and respond,” Smith said. After the first few Spotlight readings, he said, students know exactly what to do when they walk into the classroom and see a quote on the board. Spotlight reading also … Read more
Dear We Are Teachers, A friend of mine, a teacher at another school in our district, got in trouble for posting her Amazon wish list for the school on Facebook. Her principal said that any crowdfunding must be processed by the district as fundraising, but the paperwork to do so is time-consuming and tedious. I … Read more
What is life all about? The best quotes we could find by TeachThought Staff What is life all about? The best quotes we could find “People take drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or boring. They hate their jobs and find no relief in their free time. They are estranged from … Read more
“The magnitude of the challenges we face demands that all people have a basic understanding” of climate, the plan says. “Higher education must promote a learning agenda… with interdisciplinary educational offerings.” In a Global Survey 2022Sixty percent of higher education institutions said climate-related content is in less than 10% of their courses. But a vanguard … Read more
Our guest author is Walter Naegle, a partner of Bayard Rustin from 1977 to 1987, co-author of “A Rioter for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington”and historical consultant for the film “Oxidation.” Last November, the Netflix drama documentary “Rustin” brought the name of social justice activist Bayard Rustin … Read more
Across the United States, more than 26 million students rely on 480,000 of those familiar yellow buses to get them to and from school safely every day. And it really is a safe way to travel: Less than 1% of traffic fatalities involve children on school buses. That’s partly because we teach kids how to … Read more
From July 29 to August 2, 2024, the Albert Shanker Institute had the opportunity to offer the Shanker Conversations as part of the World Congress on International Education in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This followed ASI’s inaugural participation at the 2019 World Congress in Bangkok, Thailand. Because Albert Shanker co-founded Education International, the Albert Shanker Institute’s … Read more
How is empathy “transmitted” in this way? When parents respond to their children’s distress in a caring and understanding way, they give children a model for how to respond to the distress of others. Friendships in adolescence can give children the opportunity to practice and hone the empathy skills they learned from their parents in … Read more
