As the end of the year is approaching, students are filled with coding skills from the past 9 months. How can teachers have students show off their coding talent that they have practiced all year long? MIT App Inventor is a great start. A small group of staff and students came together to produce an…
The 2017 Gallup Poll, Engaged Today – Ready for Tomorrow, showed that less than 50 percent of students are actively engaged in the learning process at school. Research has shown that when students are actively engaged in the learning process, they are more likely to understand and retain the content we are trying to teach…
As teachers, we have several goals (it’s like spinning plates, people) for our students. Two very worthy goals is to encourage our students’ confidence to grow and well as their independence. In a way, these two go hand-in-hand. The more confident a child is the more independent they become! Confidence and independence are traits that…