Exit Tickets must be cultivated as a meaningful element of your instruction or they should not be deployed at all.

Here, Martin Scorsese is eloquent in discussing the importance of film literacy but I want to take what he says about film literacy a bit further.

How do you close the lesson in such a way

In observing foreign teachers in Japanese schools, one of the

It’s a common sight on Japanese mass transit: Children troop through train cars, singly or in small groups, looking for seats.

The "better to have loved and lost" rationale really doesn't apply to attempts to execute pair work and group work activities correctly. There is a lot of other very meaningful work that you can do with the students. Do pair work only if you think it's likely to succeed.

How Google Classroom is coming along? Check out this video...

Since 2003, PBS has followed children from different countries as part of the documentary series "Time for School." In this fourth installment, hear the story of Ken Higashiguchi from Nara, Japan, where the school hours are long and the expectations are high. Check out this video...