Vicki A. Davis's Blog, page 151
April 23, 2015
10 Ways to Stay Motivated at School
I’ll admit something, I dread April and May. With every fiber of my being. Can I admit this to you? Will you judge me?
Why can’t we all just skip the last two months of the year? It is easy to see why so many people jump at the chance to leave the classroom when they can. It is sooooooo hard to stay here. It isn’t your students that drive you to despair; it is the other stuff – or “schtuff” as my husband calls it. Printing the certificates and updating the databases and doing everything else....
April 22, 2015
20 Top Pinterest Tips [Link]
20 Top Pinterest Tips 
Vicki Davis on EdutopiaFebruary 23, 2015
Are you Pinteresting? Well, lots of educators are. The PEW Research Center has found that 28 percent of online users are using Pinterest(compared to only 23 percent using Twitter). Women dominate Pinterest with 42 percent of women online using the site. With over 80 percent of teachers being women (PDF, 1.5MB), it makes sense that teachers are all over Pinterest sharing ideas for lesson plans, centers, a...
April 21, 2015
Differentiating Instruction with Technology: A Framework for Success
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What Makes a World-Class Teacher? #gesf
Global Teacher Prize finalists Nancie Atwell, Stephen Ritz, Jacque Kahura, and Naomi Volain sat down with Vicki at The Global Education & Skills Forum to talk about their passions in education. Nancie Atwell is the winner of this prestigious prize. Listen now to find out what inspires them to offer world-class education to their students.
Listen now to Part 1 special from Dubai
Add @NancieAtwell and @greenBXmachine to your PLN @NancieAtwell Center for Teaching and Learning @greenBXmachine Gr...April 20, 2015
10 Terrible Traits of Lousy Leaders
There is a short, three letter hop from leading to misleading. Having a position of leadership is a paramount calling in life. You have a lot of responsibilities. It is hard to be a leader. The truth is, as flawed humans, most of us who lead in anything have a very short step to being a misleader. Teachers are also leaders of their classrooms. Here are ten ways leaders become misleaders:
First published May 16, 2012. Updated: April 20, 2015 1. You become a misleader whenyou let popular opinio...
8 Top Tips for Highly Effective Professional Development [Link]
8 Top Tips for Highly Effective Professional Development Vicki Davis on EdutopiaApril 15, 2015
Highly effective classrooms can result from highly effective professional development. Recent research (Butler et al., 2004) has shown that effective professional development includes creating classroom content, modeling techniques for teachers to use in their classrooms, and feedback on lessons (Harris, Graham, and Adkins, 2015). It’s not enough to teach the right things...
April 16, 2015
Qualities of an Effective Teacher #gesf
What are the qualities of an effective teacher? This was one of the main questions that one of the panels at the 2015 Global Education and Skills Forumtried to answer. Over and over again, all the panelists seemed to list the same characteristics that they believed an effective teacher possessed: knowledge of the subject, motivation, emotional intelligence and empathy, stamina, and passion.
This session was recorded at the Global Education and Skills Forum. Student Elizabeth Glass writes her...
April 15, 2015
Sketchnoting Fans: Paper 53 Built a Sketchnote Community
Paper by 53, a favorite sketchnoting app of many, gets major updates like cloud backup and Activity Center where you can share and find sketchnotes of others. This is very cool for sketchnoting fans and those who just like information. While I struggle with sketchnoting, I have this app and will be playing with it more this summer.
Via Paper by Fifty Three Gets Updates on App Advice
Sketchnoting is awesome!
3 Resources To Get You Started with Sketchnotes Sylvia Duckworth’s incredible present...April 14, 2015
If I’m Such a Great Teacher, Why Do I Want to Quit?
April and May are tough times of the year for me. Every year. Right now, I teach straight from 8:11 until 2:11. Then, at 2:11, my room is usually full of kids working on projects for other teachers — needing password resets and help. Then, at 3:03, I sit down to try to grade and plan lessons but I’m so tired, I just wonder what to do.
I’ve written about How to Step Back from Burnout, but this is more than that. Right now, I’m approaching 100,000 Twitter followers, and that is awesome. But in...
April 13, 2015
What Should We Teach the Teachers Who Will Teach Tomorrow?
Jim Ryan, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, talks with Vicki at The Global Education & Skills Forum in this episode of Every Classroom Matters. Jim shares his opinion on how teachers of teachers should be presenting coursework in college. He also talks about the hypocrisy of many professional development and college courses that teach teachers. All college professors and those responsible for teacher professional development will want to listen to this show.
