Professional Self- Development

Why Should Teachers Write and Focus Upon Goals?

Why should teachers write and focus upon goals if they want to become Master Teachers?

The Twelve Worst Planning Practices

Planning is the most important "non-outcome, non-output, non-urgent, non-teaching" task that you can perform.

Digital Portfolios: Will these Tools Ever Work?

Digital portfolios are a great idea. Feature sets are increasing in reliability, scalability and relevance. Digital portfolios help teachers make important instructional decisions, and serve as outstanding reporting tools.

School 2.0

Almost everyone hopes and wishes that our schools could improve. Of course, the various stakeholders of our schools hold varying ideas about how this should be accomplished.

Make Cognitive Rebuilding a Summer Professional Development Priority

Summer tasks center upon cognitive rebuilding, especially at the end of a school year, or at the end of a college degree marathon.

Embracing eLearning: Why your Career Depends on Online Skill Improvement

Teachers are often ambivalent to eLearning.

Why? One answer: Because bureaucrats often beat the "rhetoric drum" about how computer and online course material that will, one day, replace teachers.

"Do's" and "Do Not's" to Wind Down the School Year

May is the "home stretch," the "last inning," the "two minute warning time" of the school year.

Textbook Adoption: Blessing or Curse?

Ominous thunderclouds often herald Springtime, a time when Spring rains promote flowers (and weeds). Spring often sees teachers asked (ordered, volunteered) to research textbooks for a "new adoption.

Let Google™ Manage Personal and Professional Briefings for You

Researching background information to spice up the dull and bland content of most textbook…to add human interest to an otherwise flat course…eats your time in "big gulps."

Can you "Psych" your Students for Success with Neuro-Linguistic Programming?

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a form of suggestion. NLP strategies are based upon: