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Great Academic Work

4 Things to Stop Saying to Your Students: Resolution Ideas for Teachers

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work, Mike's Blog, Social and Emotional Learning, Teacher Talk, Teaching Strategies, Uncategorized
Teacher language can be a great focus for a New Year’s resolution. After all, we all use language with students, and we all surely have some habits that could use some refinement. Often, some of our language habits don’t line
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Tap into Self-Motivation with an At-Home Project

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In For Parents, From Surviving to Thriving, From Surviving to Thriving, Great Academic Work, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Student Choice, Teaching Strategies
You want at-home learning to feel purposeful and engaging for students, but you don’t want to further overwhelm yourself with work. What if there was a way to both boost student engagement and reduce the daily assigning, correcting, and keeping
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3 Reasons + 5 Tips = GR8 Games

  • By Sarah Fillion
  • In Blog, Classroom Management, Equity, From Surviving to Thriving, From Surviving to Thriving, Great Academic Work, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Teaching Strategies
Games can boost engagement and learning for students while also reducing teacher workload--a win-win!
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Want to Reduce Your Workload and Boost Student Learning? Try This One Powerful Strategy

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, From Surviving to Thriving, Great Academic Work, Homework, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Social and Emotional Learning, Student Choice, Teaching Strategies, Uncategorized, Work Life Balance
What if there was a learning strategy that boosted student engagement, had many (many!) academic benefits for students, and reduced teacher planning and correcting/grading time? Great news! There is–and it’s a tried and true strategy you have probably been using
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Shifting from Extrinsic to Intrinsic Motivation

  • By David Davis
  • In Blog, Great Academic Work, Homework, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Social and Emotional Learning, Student Choice
It might be the understatement of the summer that teachers, students, parents, and administrators are anxious about the upcoming school year.   In addition to the priorities of health, safety, and equity of access to education in this COVID-19 period, distance
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A Deep-Dive Into Learner-Centered Education

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work, In the Media, Interviews, Motivation, Student Choice, Teacher Talk, Video
I was delighted to join a group of deep thinkers for an in-depth panel discussion about leaner-centered education. Hosted by Julie Mountcastle of the Slate School, this conversation is rich and engaging. You’ll hear about the importance of cherishing children’s
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Self-Care as a Professional Responsibility

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Audio, Blog, Great Academic Work, Health and Balance, Homework, In the Media, Interviews, Mike's Blog, Social and Emotional Learning, Student Choice, Teacher Talk, Work Life Balance
A Conversation with Mike Anderson, Little Things First This is part 3 of a four-part series on how to support educators in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.   In this conversation with the Little Things First podcast hosts, Tracy
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Start Planning with Your “Why” Instead of Your “What” and “How”

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Blog, Great Academic Work, Mike's Blog, Motivation, Student Choice
A high school math teacher is recording short lessons on his phone in his basement, using a dry erase board and marker as he explains new math concepts. He posts the videos and then offers one-on-one and small group coaching
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Our Classroom Walls

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work
This article appeared in the Responsive Classroom Newsletter: November 2015 (https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/article/our-classroom-walls) During the school day we spend most of our time in our classroom and so do twenty to thirty students (give or take a few!). Many of us feel
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Social-Emotional Learning and Academics: Better Together

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Great Academic Work
This article was published in the October 2015 edition of Educational Leadership (Emotionally Healthy Kids) as an online-only article. It explores how social and emotional skills are woven throughout the Common Core State Standards and what that means for good
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The Trouble with Testing

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Great Academic Work
When I first began my teaching career in the early 1990’s, it felt like an exciting time to be in education. There was incredible momentum building for rich, multi-layered, developmentally appropriate teaching. The reading and
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Classroom Displays: Keep the Focus on Student Work

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work
Original Article: http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol6/613-anderson.aspx?utm_source=ascdexpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=express613 Displays are essential tools for supporting students’ learning and making the classroom feel welcoming and engaging. They’re also something that most teachers enjoy doing—and sometimes overdoing! It’s tempting to cover classroom walls with bright, beautiful—and teacher-chosen—charts, maps, posters,
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Homework: An Unwelcome Guest

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/homework-unwelcome-guest Most Thursday nights, our family joins two other families for what we all call “Dinner and a Show.” We congregate at one of our houses, the kids play together and we all enjoy some appetizers. The kids (seven
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Holiday Celebrations

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Great Academic Work, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
Winter holiday celebrations! They’re such a big part of American school life. But as our schools grow more diverse, traditional celebrations can leave some children and families feeling excluded or uncomfortable. Also, even if everyone at
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Keep Learning Going During Holiday & Vacation Times

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work, The Ebb and Flow of the School Year
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/article/keep-learning-going-during-holiday-vacation-times Adapted from Responsive blog posts by Mike Anderson and Margaret Wilson Responsive Classroom Newsletter: November 2010 Suddenly, it seems like the class
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A Comfortable Way to Work

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Classroom Management, Great Academic Work
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/comfortable-way-work I remember one third grader who really struggled with sitting still. If I’d required him to sit while he worked, it would have been really hard for him to get anything done. This child needed to move to
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Make Learning a Moving Experience

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/make-learning-moving-experience So you want to reduce the amount of time that your students are required to sit and to give them more chances to move. Could you build more movement into your lessons? Here’s one idea. Let’s say you’ve
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Move Around the Room

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work
What are strategies for helping students be more physically active during the day, and how do we keep control of the group if they’re sitting less and moving more? Try having lessons take place in one area of the room,
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Lecture Less

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Great Academic Work, Teacher Talk
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/lecture-less So we know students need to sit still to accomplish some school tasks, but we don’t want to keep them sitting for too long. How can we minimize the amount of time we require children to sit still?
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Sitting Too Much?

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work
“My students have such a hard time sitting still! They call out all the time! They’re constantly out of their seats!” After hearing this refrain over and over again from teachers, I decided to do a
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Every Teacher Tips: Displaying Student Work

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/blog/every-teacher-tips-displaying-student-work In any classroom, displays should consist primarily of the children’s work, rather than teacher-made or store-bought pieces, no matter how beautiful those pieces might be. Displaying student work sends several important messages: As teachers, we value what students
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Technology in the Classroom

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Articles, Classroom Management, Great Academic Work
With new technologies arriving on the scene constantly, it can be hard for teachers to keep up. Which devices will improve the learning environment in your classroom? Which will gather dust? Here are some basic guidelines to help you decide
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Q & A: News and Announcement Charts

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work
Original Article: https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/article/news-and-announcement-charts A: I incorporate bits of word study into the charts whenever possible. In the younger grades, I sometimes made a stack of word cards and asked each student to place a card into a category on the chart
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Reading Violence in Boys’ Writing

  • By Mike Anderson
  • In Great Academic Work
Link: http://www.ncte.org/search?q=reading+violence+in+boys+writing
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