A Teacher's Hat is a place of collaboration and easy access of strategies that can be used, with minor adaptations, by all teachers, and of reflection on readings, presenting the wonderful teaching ideas that come out of the books written by scholars and teachers for their peers.

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Teaching is a magical experience. The impossible occurs every day in classrooms across the word. It takes only one remarkable teacher to…

Ginger Schwartz

Feb 23, 2019

Supporting Comprehension of Texts

Strategies to support comprehension of an academic paper before, during and after reading

Kriti Khare

Feb 10, 2019

The First Experience in the Classroom — Junior High Math

My first experience in student teaching was in Junior High Math and I recount here the adventures I had with my students and share this…

Kriti Khare

Jan 31, 2019

Extended Metaphor: My classroom is a canvas and I am an artist….here’s a tool to help!

Quick Strategies Part 5

Melissa White

Nov 28, 2018

Building Vocabulary — Read, Explain, Describe (RED)

Read, Explain, Describe (RED) is a strategy that is used to build vocabulary acquisition for all students.

HOLLY TREECE

Nov 5, 2018

Personal Whiteboards

Quick Strategies Series: Part 3

Kriti Khare

Oct 31, 2018

The First Observation Day

What to expect and what to do as a student teacher, entering your mentor teacher’s classroom for the first time.

Kriti Khare

Oct 26, 2018

The Medium is the Message

Education must shift from instruction, from the imposing of stencils on brain pens, as it were, to discovery — to probing and exploring…

Kriti Khare

Oct 23, 2018

The Jigsaw

Quick Strategies Series: Part 2

Kriti Khare

Oct 19, 2018

Assessments 102

A review of and best practices in Selective Response Items — Alternative responses, Matching and Multiple Choice Questions

Kriti Khare

Oct 15, 2018

My journey to mindfulness

For my first contribution to A Teacher’s Hat blog, I’m being really vulnerable here. I have decided to talk about a subject close to my…

Valérie Jean

Oct 10, 2018

Think, Research and Share

Quick Strategies Series: Part 1

Kriti Khare

Oct 6, 2018

Trust the Process

Notebooks, like people, come in all shapes and sizes. Much like people, notebooks exist all around us ambiguously, yet many people never…

S Johnston

Sep 30, 2018

Assessments 101

Learning the boarder intention of classroom practices as a preservice teacher

Kriti Khare

Sep 24, 2018

Embracing Inquiry in Teaching and Learning

Reflection on Dive into Inquiry by Trevor Mackenzie and ideas about teaching, lesson planning and relationships.

Kriti Khare

Sep 14, 2018

Gamifying the Math Classroom

Using SMILE (Secondary Mathematics Individualized Learning Experiment)

Kriti Khare

Sep 8, 2018

Facilitating a Professional Learning Community

In last month’s article, I discussed what professional learning communities are and how they benefit educational organizations. In this…

Aaron Harwood

Aug 30, 2018

The Wild Card

Reflections on Creativity and Authenticity which lead to influence

Robyn Busekrus

Aug 26, 2018

#OneSmallThing

A small action to inspire more actions

Melissa White

Aug 21, 2018

The Hive Summit 2018: When Professional Development is a click away!

Honey from the Hive

Kriti Khare

Aug 17, 2018

Educational Practices behind Gamification

Gamification refers to incorporating elements of games in the classroom. This can range from encouraging competition among the students…

Kriti Khare

Aug 9, 2018

Assessment and Grades: Going hand-in-hand?

Professions find more meaning for employees when they are goal oriented and help them achieve a certain level of satisfaction. Teaching…

Varun Bhargava

Jul 29, 2018

Accounts of Teaching – Treena

Treena, my step-mom, continues to play an important part in my development as a teacher. No matter which age group I may be working with, I…

Kriti Khare

Jul 26, 2018

The Whats, Wheres, and Whys of Professional Development

Over the course of their careers, most teachers are required to complete some form of professional development (PD). Whether they need to…

Andrew Mills

Jul 19, 2018

It’s Genius! Helping your students become passionately curious

I’m going to ask you to join me as I go down memory lane. In my first few years of teaching high school English, my freshmen and sophomores…

Melissa White

Jul 11, 2018

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A Teacher's Hat

A Teacher's Hat is a place of collaboration and easy access of strategies that can be used, with minor adaptations, by all teachers, and of reflection on readings, presenting the wonderful teaching ideas that come out of the books written by scholars and teachers for their peers.

If school were a video game

Professional Learning Communities: Creating Cultures of Success

Brain Rules

Be Like Ollivander

Supporting Comprehension of Texts

The First Experience in the Classroom — Junior High Math

Extended Metaphor: My classroom is a canvas and I am an artist….here’s a tool to help!

Building Vocabulary — Read, Explain, Describe (RED)

Personal Whiteboards

The First Observation Day

The Medium is the Message

The Jigsaw

Assessments 102

My journey to mindfulness

Think, Research and Share

Trust the Process

Assessments 101

Embracing Inquiry in Teaching and Learning

Gamifying the Math Classroom

Facilitating a Professional Learning Community

The Wild Card

#OneSmallThing

The Hive Summit 2018: When Professional Development is a click away!

Educational Practices behind Gamification

Assessment and Grades: Going hand-in-hand?

Accounts of Teaching – Treena

The Whats, Wheres, and Whys of Professional Development

It’s Genius! Helping your students become passionately curious