by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Student Engagement
When it comes to classroom engagement, the first and last 4 minutes of your class matter the most. As a teacher, kids are the toughest audience you’ll ever have. Holding their attention is difficult enough, but getting it in the first place can be trickiest of... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Assessment
When it comes to classroom productivity, the ideal classroom is a happy one. It means students are creating solutions and projects that have meaning and purpose. They gladly take initiatives and assume responsible ownership of class time. Above all, it means students... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Classroom Management
Teachers spend a lot of time with their students during the week. In this time, a teacher will take on the role of a guide, a counsellor, a facilitator, and sometimes a friend. Making learner connections in meaningful and supportive ways is a priority for... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
How do we achieve equal engagement within a collaborative classroom? The secret to success is tolerance, drawing on individual strengths, safety in community, properly working instruments (tools), and above all, passion. True engagement need not look the same for... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Student Engagement
Building student connection means building trust and ensuring the best learning outcomes. Using the right classroom engagement strategies, you can make this a regular occurrence in all your classes. Teachers that connect meaningfully to students can make the biggest... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Solution Fluency
Teachers and parents are always looking for the right scenarios to promote blended learning engagement. There is plenty of potential in creating forums and using apps, websites, and other virtual tools to promote creativity and higher-level learning. The trick with... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
Collaborative classrooms are the learning environments of the future. Schools around the world are saying goodbye to the conventional lecture-based learning space where the students remain inert in their respective seats and the teacher remains at the head of the... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Student Engagement
Identifying the most important teaching skill to have as a modern educator is a tough consideration. Is it confidence or empathy? How about organization or creative thinking? All these are contenders, but what about a skill that could potentially include all of them?... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
Engaging students can be a challenge, when you desire to keep the whole class interested in the subject, and a few disengaged minds seem to push the other way. It seems like a cakewalk to others, but teaching can turn out to be one of the most stressful jobs in the... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Essential Questions
Editor’s note: This is an updated version of the article featuring an all-new shareable infographic courtesy of the gang at Venngage. When students become active learners, they learn that there might be more than one correct answer to a question and whether an...