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Games and Activities for Large Classes

Teachers Gaming Teacher Cafe
A great website with a variety of tested games and activities for teachers with large groups of students.

Curbing Cheating

Teachers Teacher Cafe
Read through the articles and find workable strategies to problems involving students who cheat. There are articles on prevention, plagiarism and problem behaviours.

Vocabulary

Teachers Reading Teacher Cafe
A vocabulary learning platform with images, games and activities for all types of classrooms. A resources for teachers and students to practice vocabulary.

Public Webcasts

Teachers Education Teacher Cafe
EDUCAUSE 2014 Annual conference has sessions that you can view live, or in recorded forms. Topics for the sessions range from "Flipping Out over the Flipped Classroom?" to "Badging to Support Professional Development and Career Building".

Chrome Extensions for Teachers, Students and Academics

Teachers Teacher Cafe Technology
A website with a list and links for 15 user-friendly Google Chrome extensions to make a positive difference in your educational experience online.

Dealing with Challenging Students

Teachers Relationships Teacher Cafe
A quick review of of strategies that can be used to deal with challenging students in the classroom. In the article by Mark Boynton and Christine Boynton you will read about relationship, academic and disciplinary strategies.

Four Activities to Jump-Start Teamwork Among Teachers and School Leaders

Teachers Leadership Teacher Cafe
The article written by Gayle Allen suggests that school leaders and teachers can overcome the challenges they face with innovation, connections and understanding.

Culture of cruelty: why bullying thrives in higher education

Teachers Culture Psychology Teacher Cafe
In an environment where discussion, debate and criticism are encouraged, undermining behaviour can flourish. Read the full article posted by Sam Farley and Christine Sprigg at the following link.

Inspiring students with learning disabilities to take up a language

Teachers Disability Teacher Cafe
With a different approach, language lessons for students with special education can be inclusive, exciting and relevant. Adapting lessons so they include more visual and audio aspects could help when teaching languages to young people with learning difficulties.

Use Technology to Help Students Learn

Teachers Teacher Cafe Technology
There are a lot of ways technology can help ESL students learn. Here you will discover ways to use technology in your classroom to help students further their language learning.

Classic ice breakers you can use with all learners

Teachers Speaking Teacher Cafe
Ice breakers have the ability to help students become comfortable and establish a positive learning environment. In the article, there are five old favourites that work to get any class energized.

Word Bucket

Teachers Reading Teacher Cafe
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

Teachers Reading Teacher Cafe
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.

Education Tech Trends to Watch

Teachers Teacher Cafe Technology
Students love learning with technology. Make this year a memorable one for students by increasing your the use of technology. In the article there are 5 ways you might be able to make your classroom tech-savvy.

Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers

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The 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

Teachers Reading Teacher Cafe
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

Teachers Listening Teacher Cafe
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

Teachers Culture Self Teacher 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

Teachers Design Teacher Cafe
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.

The Benefits of a Good Night's Sleep- Shai Marcu

Teachers Teacher Cafe Health
A Ted-Ed Original Lesson with corresponding questions for students to think, dig deeper and discuss.

Reasons Why The Flipped Classroom Is Here To Stay

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Swaroop 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.