The Power of Stories to Build a Kinder World
TeachersLanguageReadingTeacher Cafe...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 CafeVocabularyWriting...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 CafeWritingQuestions 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 HealthMusicTeacher Cafe...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
TeachersEducationProductivityTeacher CafeSharing their podcasts with peers gives students motivation to conduct research and develop skills they’ll need later to write essays.
How To Use Google Books
TeachersBooksEducationTeacher Cafe...When students are shown how to use Google Books it can become a valuable search and research tool for them.
Google Earth For The Classroom
TeachersEducationTeacher CafeWorld...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 CafeTechnologyAnthony Speranza, St. Mark's Primary School
Melbourne, Australia speaks about the shifting role of the teacher within the new complex and digital world.
Emerging Trends in Education
TeachersEducationFutureTeacher Cafe...Today’s classrooms must prepare students for careers and challenges that don’t yet exist. Here’s a look at research-based trends to watch and resources to help your school prepare students for what’s next.
8 Tips To Strengthen Parent Involvement With Digital Tools
TeachersEducationProductivityTeacher Cafe...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.
Classroom App Socrative
TeachersEducationGamingTeacher Cafe...Your classroom app for fun, effective engagement and on-the-fly assessments. Works on computers, laptops, tablets, and phones.
We need to relearn how to play nice in peer review
TeachersEducationMental HealthTeacher Cafe...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 CafeTechnology...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.
April Fool's Day
TeachersEducationMathTeacher Cafe...April Fool's Day is the perfect time to play some light-hearted pranks on your friends, family, and co-workers; and if you’re a teacher, pulling an unexpected fast one on your students can be entertaining -- and memorable -- for everyone.
Earth Hour 2019
TeachersEducationEnvironmentTeacher CafeThis 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 CafeArtEducation...English 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 CafeLanguageEducationAuthor Scott Thornbury talking about the use of Repetition in English language teaching.
The benefits of Extensive Reading
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeEducation...Professor 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 CafeTechnologyEducationLead 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 CafeEducationTechnologyEducational 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.