Judgment Call: Maturity, Emotions and the Teenage Brain

by Amy Williams

In today’s connected world, it may seem like truly understanding your students is out of reach. Between the limited amount of time spent with your class, and the vastness of their lives both at home and through social media and modern communication, understanding the teenage mind has never been more puzzling.

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Apps to call on students randomly – This Educational Leadership item suggests three apps to cold-call students:

• Pick Me! www.classeapps.com/pick-me generates student names and keeps track of who’s called on.
• Class Cards http://classcardsapp.com lets the teacher quickly rate the quality of a student’s…

Free student perception survey questions – Panorama Education, a start-up developing and analyzing student opinions of their teachers, has just released a free, open-source set of questions that are quite distinct from the Tripod Project’s items. You can access Panorama’s survey here:  http://panoramaed.com/panorama-student-survey

From the Marshall Memo…

How to teach a young introvert

Some Surprising Findings on Kindergarten Math Instruction

In this Elementary School Journal article, Martha Cecilia Bottia, Stephanie Moller, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, and Elizabeth Stearns (University of North Carolina/Charlotte) report on their analysis of the U.S. Department of Education’s ECLS-K study (Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey – Kindergarten). The researchers looked at the impact of several instructional practices on student…