Mid-Year Reflection: Setting PD Goals
Teachers Self
Winter can be a great time to pause and reflect on things happening in your classroom and career. Taking the time to stop and reflect on what you have done and looking to the future to see what tasks lie ahead.
Becoming a Better Teacher: Articles For New and Not-So-New Teachers
Teachers Self
The literature on teaching and learning is diverse- one of its finest features. It can do a great job of shaping this broader thinking if it's sampled across disciplines, topics and categories.
Stop, Start, Continue: Conceptual Understanding Meets Applied Problem Solving
Teachers Self
What should we stop doing? What should we start doing? What should we continue doing? United World College asked these questions with an intimate group of students, faculty and family in a remote Vancouver Island location with the aim to get better at what they were doing.
5 Reasons You Should Seek Your OWN Student Feedback
Teachers Self
As teacher evaluation system become more complex and intense, many of us ignore the richest source of information about our teaching. And it's right under our noses. If you've never asked students for serious, honest feedback, you're missing something. If you ask the right questions and give students the time and encouragement to supply quality answers, student feedback can benefit you in so many ways.
5 Ways to Unwind From Teaching
Teachers Self
As a teacher being able to unwind after school is very important. Disconnecting from the classroom for at least a few hours is a key to keeping the balance.
4 Tips Teachers Can Use to Practice Self-Care and Set Boundaries
Teachers Self
It's hard to strike the right balance between helping individuals and making sure that you can complete the task that affect all your students, but we hope that the following tips can help you get there.
Islands of Personality and Trains of Thought
Teachers Self
How can educators assist in building upon, repairing, and strengthening our students' islands of self? When we take a few minutes to authentically share and reflect with our students, we cultivate a connection.
The 4 Properties of Powerful Teachers
Teachers Self
A quick read of the properties that combines make a powerful teacher. A mix of personality, planning, passion, and presence all form the basis of excellence in teaching.
What If You Only Took Naps?
Adults Self
Just what exactly would happen to your body if instead of sleeping you decided to only take naps. - Thanks to LastPass for sponsoring this video!
The Scientific Benefits of Boredom
Adults Self
Boredom makes you more creative, altruistic, introspective, and helps with autobiographical planning.
How Much Is Your Body Worth?
Adults Self
We break down your value piece by piece!
I Got Popular...And It Changed Me
Adults Self
Isaiah had never been cool or popular. He was known as strange, the weird kid - the weirdo - and he stuck to himself. The mean girls and popular kids didn't help his shyness, really hurt his self-esteem, and so, after middle school, he was determined to make high school different.
The Dangers of Thinking Too Much; And Thinking Too Little
Adults Self
There are dangers associated both with thinking too much - and thinking too little. The trick is to use our minds to access our most sincere, authentic and original thoughts.
How To Be Confident
Adults Self
The fastest route to confidence is to stop being so attached to one's dignity and seriousness; and plainly admit that one is - of course - an idiot. We all are.
How Not to be Boring
Adults Self
No one is ever boring: we just seem boring when we haven't learnt the surprisingly easy art of being honest about our vulnerabilities.
Why We Don't Really Want to be Nice
Adults Self
Being 'nice' sounds a bit eerie and strange. It shouldn't really.
Is It Better to Be Polite or Frank?
Adults Self
We live in an age that thinks highly of frankness and directness. But there are - nevertheless - a few reasons why politeness remains a hugely important quality.
How We Lie to Ourselves
Adults Self
We are masters at knowing how to lie to ourselves. We pay a heavy price for this self-deception.
The Importance of Vulnerability
Adults Self
We often imagine that what will win us friends and esteem is strength. But surprisingly, it's vulnerability that's at the core of friendship and likeability. This is an invitation to make friends with one's own weaknesses.
Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? - Maryam Alimardani
Adults Self
Our bodies - the physical, biological parts of us - and our minds - the thinking, conscious aspects - have a complicated, tangled relationship. Which one primarily defines you or your self? Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? Maryam Alimardani investigates.
The Problem With Our Phones
Adults Self
They are hugely useful of course but in many ways, we buy the advantages our phones give us at a subtly high price we don't entirely recognise. Some reflections on how to live well around phones.