Assume Nothing
It’s easy to forget that just because something is easy for you or obvious to you, that it might not be for everyone else. If we’re not careful, we can assume a lot about what our students know and understand, because we know and understand our content so well. Don’t assume that students understand the […]
Rethinking Delivery to Reach All Your Learners
Author: Shannon Lauffer When it comes to teaching, my soul, my passion, it’s teaching to reach every learner. I was an art teacher and a special education teacher. I fell in love with special education in my first job, and honing that skillset was the best thing I ever did. I like teaching students who […]
How to Get Started with Your College Application
Are you trying to finish your college applications? At first, it seems like a college application should be simple. Then you sit down to start filling them out and realize that each one is a little bit different, and you’re not sure what to do. They’re asking you for an artist statement and have all […]
How to Help Students Ask Questions
Let’s face it, there are some students that always come armed with a list of questions, and others that you know have them, but aren’t asking. Asking questions requires a level of confidence and vulnerability. We also know that the more students practice asking questions the more confident they become. Let’s help them get started. […]
Why Distance Education Rocks
Teachers Teach Teaching: Episode 1 Shannon and I have been teaching online for almost a decade, we know that any change especially one as unexpected as suddenly having to teach all of your classes online is hard, and we want to help. Distance education can be hard, it can also be wonderful, so today we […]
Welcome to Teachers Teach Teaching: A Podcast for Teachers
I love trying new things, it’s how I learn. The other day I was sharing with a friend about how I like to set up experiments, in fact, I always have a few going. It’s also always been part of my teaching practice, I pick something that I want to get better at, then research, […]
How to Get Your Students Engaged with Online Learning
Many teachers were forced to dive headfirst into the deep end of online teaching, with little to no support or guidance. A common thing that I’m hearing from teachers is that during synchronous class calls, students’ cameras are off, they’re disengaged, and it feels like you’re teaching to a black hole. Maybe you are. Before […]
How to Help Students Develop Their Sustained Investigation Topic
Helping students develop a sustained investigation topic of AP Studio Art that exits them and guides their work, isn’t always easy. Students are often used to being told what to create, or coming up with an idea, creating a piece and moving on. Exploring an idea throughout a course and creating multiple works around it […]
What to do When you Fall Behind
No matter how good of a planner you are, you’re going to fall behind sometimes. You’ll get pulled into meetings that you didn’t plan for, get stuck in traffic, or spill melted wax all over your kitchen. (That last one might just be me. At least I hope so, because it resulted in hours of […]
How to Stop Students From Cheating
I spend a lot of time thinking about, students cheating, grades, and assessment. Assessment is supposed to be about checking for students’ understanding, when they cheat, they’re telling us that they don’t understand. (We do have to know that they cheated in order to receive that message) As adults talking about “students cheating”, we approach […]