Creating avatars in education can help get the creative juices flowing and create safe images to post of the students online. Here is a list of ideas for using avatars in classrooms: Create book trailers with the avatars representing the characters Teachers can put their avatar in their powerpoints to get the kids attention. Create [...]
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Want to make a difference in your classroom? Let your students know how they are doing! The most powerful single modification that enhances achievement is feedback. [Hattie, 1992] According to Robert Marzano’s Classroom Instruction that Works -providing feedback to students can be the single most important change you make in your classroom. Research shows that: Feedback [...]
The Winter Olympics are 10 days away. Soon the TV airwaves will be full ofwinter sports, some of which we only get to see every 4 years. So how can you incorporate this historic event into your classroom? I’ve gone through several websites (listed at the bottom of this post) and grouped some ideas into [...]