EduTip 26: Give lots of quizzes.

When our students face challenges in the classroom, some teachers double down on control and rigor: tighter rules, firmer consequences, higher demands. Others lean toward grace and flexibility: easing up, giving extensions, and softening expectations because they know our student ...  Show more

Teaching students to write well has always been challenging, and newer developments have made it even more difficult: The internet offers unlimited text to plagiarize, standardized testing has pushed us to teach more formulaic writing, and AI constantly offers to do our writing f ...  Show more

In today's episode, we're talking and taking a closer look at what I call five learner energy profiles. These aren't learning styles per se in the traditional sense. They are patterns that I've seen over and over again. Patterns that help explain why some students engage instantl ...  Show more

Discover the benefits of language chunks in today's video. Learn what they are, how to use them, and what teachers often get wrong about chunking! 

One of the most noteworthy things about learning German is one particular aspect: the many different words we have for the article the.

You may find this mind-blowing, frustrating, or even entertaining. Maybe all three! You will likely decide what you think of ...

Now that you've got a handle on Positions 1 and 2, you can start working with questions that will help you acquire more information than only a Yes/No answer. These are called W-Fragen, or W Questions, which are frequently referred to as open- ...