The Power of Stories to Build a Kinder World
TeachersLanguageReading...If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Atticus Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962)
How to Make Your Writing Suspenseful
TeachersTeacher CafeVocabulary...Writers harness that fear not by revealing horrors, but by leaving the audience hanging in a state of suspense. Victoria Smith gives some tips for adding suspense to your writing.
550 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing
TeachersEducationTeacher Cafe...Questions that invite students to tell stories, describe memories, make observations, imagine possibilities, and reflect on who they are and what they believe.
Music Can Help Students Cope with Trauma
TeachersMental HealthMusic...Schools play a role by helping those who have experienced trauma, “Writing lyrics feels safer than directly speaking about what she’s been through,”.
Teaching The Research Process Through Podcasting
TeachersEducationProductivity...Sharing their podcasts with peers gives students motivation to conduct research and develop skills they’ll need later to write essays.
Google Earth For The Classroom
TeachersEducationTeacher Cafe...Google Earth is a web based 3D virtual globe that presents the world’s geographic information ranging from natural sciences to social sciences, history, art, and engineering in a geospatial context.
Google For Education
TeachersEducationTeacher Cafe...Anthony Speranza, St. Mark's Primary School
Melbourne, Australia speaks about the shifting role of the teacher within the new complex and digital world.
8 Tips To Strengthen Parent Involvement With Digital Tools
TeachersEducationProductivity...Technology can be used to power better and more meaningful relationships with parents and families. Here are eight points that specify how digital tools can improve parent engagement.
We need to relearn how to play nice in peer review
TeachersEducationMental Health...Most educators obsess about the quality of their work and are afraid, at best, to disappoint their department and mentors, and at worst, to have their name blacklisted among the community.
G Suite Updates
TeachersEducationTeacher Cafe...G Suite is making support and learning resources easier to find in several G Suite apps.They’re doing this by adding a new quick-access button to some products, and changing the Help menu options in others.
Earth Hour 2019
TeachersEducationEnvironment...This toolkit contains assets which help raise awareness of the nature all around us, tools to empower you and the people around you to take action and advocate for this year's Earth Hour and beyond!
Why I Hate School But Love Education
TeachersTeacher CafeArtEnglish rapper-poet Suli Breaks is out with a video that's taking the Internet by storm, and young people are loving it.
Repetition in ELT
TeachersTeacher CafeLanguageAuthor Scott Thornbury talking about the use of Repetition in English language teaching.
The benefits of Extensive Reading
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeProfessor Richard Day, Chair and Co-founder of the Extensive Reading Foundation, explains the benefits to language learners of extensive reading.
Google Apps for English Teachers webinar
TeachersTeacher CafeTechnologyLead by Kevin Brookhouser, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer and Google Certified Teacher.
Learn some more ways you can use Google Docs & Sites in your English classrooms to have a collaborative writing process and dynamic assignments.
How do you stop online students cheating?
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationHere is an article (and a video that doesn't seem to be working) on cheating and online courses from the BBC.
Imagine taking a university exam in your own home, under the watchful eye of a webcam or with software profiling your keystrokes or your syntax to see whether it really is you answering the questions.
Online university courses have become the Next Big Thing for higher education, particularly in the United States, where millions of students have signed up for courses from some of the most upmarket universities.
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationEducational researcher Sugata Mitra won the 2013 TED Prize. His wish is to build a school in the cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another using on-line resources and collaboration. Dr. Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall experiments have shown that children are able to teach themselves and each other without formal teaching, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest.