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Best Teaching Practices and the New Educational Paradigm

Are you feeling like teaching is getting a bit more challenging? Maybe, you're enjoying teaching and would like it to get even better, but you don't know what to do. Well, you've come to the right place!

Learn about best teaching practices and how to increase the amount of learning, enjoyment and compassion in your classroom.

 

Technology & Information Age Education Strategies

Education is changing as we enter the Information Age. Our students will be required to develop new skills to thrive in a dynamic world. Teachers will use more technology to enhance learning. Yet the Information Age is more than just about technology. The essence of this new era is about an increased sense of connectedness. Technology is only a tool to support that connection. Explore ways to create your classroom for the 21st Century by using best teaching practices to create a new educational paradigm.
Information Age Education Blog
Learn about how to integrate technology to enhance learning and get your students jazzed. Also discover ways to create the classroom you'd like to have using a variety of conscious creation tools using things such as the Law of Attraction.
Education in the Information Age
This article by Dr. Rod Reigle, Professor of Education at Illinois State University, has a compelling comparison of education in the Industrial Age versus Information Age. It provides a vision, a direction and a possibility for the future of education. It's worth reading.

Asking "Why?" Can Change Your Students' Lives

This week my friend Kathleen told me about "The Great Little Book of Afformations." Many people are familiar with affirmations and haven't had a lot of success. That's because when you say, "I'm thin" and your body and mind say, "No you're not." There is a split and it's hard to override the negative mental chatter.

The Universe responds to questions. I've known this for years, and this week I really started to play with it. The question I was asking all week is "Why does money flow to me so easily?" In four days, I generated $470 of additional income, a teaching award and 4 gifts. I also received an email from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, which serves over 100,000 math teachers, that informed me that my integers website, www.squidoo.com/integers/, will be included in their March "News Bulletin."

On Thursday I told my students about my manifesting experience and the power of questions. We talked about the type of questions that normally people ask. They tend to be negative questions and the Universe answers those - unwittingly. You've probably heard some of these:
* Why am I so bad at math?
* Why do I always get in trouble and XY doesn't?
* Why do you always pick on me?
* Why can't I ever find my homework?
* Why do teachers get paid so little?
* Why can't I loose weight?

We practiced asking some different questions.
* Why am I so organized?
* Why is it easy for me to concentrate in class?
* Why do I love school?
* Why do I get such great grades?

At the end of the period, one of my students who really struggles with math called me over and said, "Ms. Newburn, I totally get how to do this. I did it all by myself. I didn't even need any help." Then he threw his arms open wide and said, "Why does math come so easily to me?" grinning broadly.

Yes, I made extra money this week by asking questions from "The Great Little Book of Afformations" and this ah-ha by my student was priceless!
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Creating a Conscious Classroom

Practical Classroom Strategies

How do you create a classroom where kids are thoughtful and inclusive? Read some of these books to find out.
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Think-Pair-Share-Write

Note: YouTube may be blocked at school.

For more about Think-Pair-Share activities, visit my blog, www.information-age-education.com.
Teacher Resources: Think-Pair-Share Hand Signals
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Educational YouTube Videos and On-Line Alternatives

YouTube is blocked by school servers. So how can you share excellent educational videos hosted on YouTube with your students? Read some of these links to find out how.
Download YouTube Videos for Use at School
Here is a way to download YouTube videos so you can share them with your students.
Metacafe, an Alternative to YouTube
Metacafe.com is similar to YouTube. Read this article to learn about some interesting similarities and important differences between the two companies. I'll let you know one difference here: Metacafe isn't blocked at schools!

I've started uploading my videos to both sites. I always use "rebecca newburn" as tags so people can easily find them.
Educational YouTube Videos
This article is a fun read about how I inadvertently got started making YouTube videos and how that lead to me creating some excellent YouTube groups for math students and teachers. Links to my YouTube Vedic Math and Math Tutor groups are in the article, as well as a links to my first videos. Can you guess what they were about?

Cooperative Learning How-To Sites (Plexo)

These sites have some nice overviews of different cooperative learning activities.

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My Home Site for Teachers & Students

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My home page has great resources for teachers and students. Check it out. The majority of student resources are for math.

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