Word Bucket
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeEducation...Word Bucket is a personal English dictionary, notebook and vocabulary learning game. Students can save all new words to their personal Bucket and learn them through tests and games.
"Vape" Word of the year 2014
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeLanguage...Last year it was "selfie" and in 2012 it was "GIF". Oxford University Press have chosen "vape" as this years winner. The word, which the dictionaries's blog defines as both a verb and a noun for the whole category of popular tobacco atomizing devices.
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationPsychologyThe article by Terri Heick posted on te@chthought, addresses why questions in the classroom are so important. Typically, the focus has been on answers and correct answers at that. A spotlight on questions highlights their benefits.
14 Weird Words That Literally Contradict themselves
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeLanguage...Contronyms are words which have two more or less opposite meanings. The word is a contronym; it can mean hit, as in hitting someone, or it can mean miss, as used in baseball.
Education On Tap
TeachersListeningTeacher CafeEducation...Podcast episodes brought to you by Teach For America. Informative, informal and a little fun. All meant to be conversation starters.
What Students Can Learn From Giving TEDx Talks
TeachersCultureSelfTeacher Cafe...Modelled after the popular TED talks, TEDx allows community organizations, towns and schools to put on their own version of a TED talk, featuring local experts, authorities or even teenagers, rather than nationally recognized figures.
How a Moveable Space Can Ignite Creativity in the Classroom
TeachersDesignTeacher CafeEducation...What is "design thinking"? It combines hands on learning (tinkering) with independent problem solving methodologies. This type of creative process is used in many design disciplines, like architecture, engineering and game design.
Reasons Why The Flipped Classroom Is Here To Stay
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationTechnologySwaroop Raju, co-founder of eduCanon writes about why the flipped classroom is here for good. The article takes a look at results, restructuring class time and the technology to confirm that a flipped classroom is no longer just for adventurous teachers.
Tiny Tap
TeachersCreativityProductivityTeacher Cafe...A free DIY app creation platform for making your own games, interactive lessons and presentations. With this app you can even create music activities, and illustrated stories.
Tips to Help Students Set New Year Goals
TeachersProductivityTeacher CafeEducationThe start of 2015 is the perfect time to teach students the importance of setting goals. The article by Janelle Cox highlights tips for students on how to learn the important skills of setting and achieving goals.
Understanding the Errors of Arabic Speaking ELL's- using Slide Share
TeachersCultureTeacher CafeEducation...Take a look at Slide Share and there collections of various slide shows. This slide show includes a side by side comparisons of Arabic and English, along with illustrations to understand the mistakes of your Arabic language learners.
Presentations with emaze
TeachersProductivityTeacher CafeEducation...Try out Presentations today with your class. You and your students can make, share and explore different levels and elements with.
How to Use Recycled Tech Devices as Learning Tools
TeachersGadgetsTeacher CafeEducation...The movement of un-makings spaces in the classroom. Students get a chance to take apart old electronic devices and ask questions about how they work. Give your class the chance to create something new and share it with others.
Incorporate TED Talks into the Learning Experience
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationTechnologyTake the time to try out TED-Ed and all of the creative features it has. Create lessons to go along with almost any video on YouTube. Ted-Ed will provide a structure for questions and feedback.
Pump Students Up With Digital Ice Breakers
TeachersTeacher CafeSpeakingEducation...Digital ice breakers and ideas for getting class started in a positive direction. With a relaxing atmosphere students will be ready to participate and learn, without the pressure of being graded.
Is Your Class On Target?
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationProductivityA student at heart approach to teaching. It looks at different areas of teaching that teachers should be considering in the classroom for successful results and not only through assessment.
Teach Your Monster To Read
TeachersGamingTeacher CafeEducation...A series of free games to help kids master the first stages of learning. Top quality game design mixed with learning essentials. Games help to develop speed and accuracy of letter recognition.