Teachers’ Cup of Coffee

"3 Why's" for global students

Teaching students to be globally competent is no easy task.  In just 4 minutes, we review a simple and effective strategy for fostering global thinking in the classroom.  

Everybody Writes

When Everybody Writes, everyone is thinking!  Such a simple strategy, but it is one that can significantly change learning in your classroom. Got 5 minutes?

Teaching perseverance

Students struggle to persevere through challenging academic work.  In just 4.5 minutes, this week we have ideas on teaching perseverance that both educators and parents will benefit from!

Dreading tomorrow? We can help!

Some quick ideas for getting back to school and hitting the ground running, (as well as how to deal with that alarm in the morning)!

What a great blog!

This week we summarize and review an excellent blog written by a teacher.  Just 7 minutes could change your practice in the classroom forever!

Movement and Brain Breaks

How can we incorporate movement and brain breaks into our classroom?  Our guest expert, a middle school physical education teacher, gives us a lot of cool ideas!  And he also discusses just how important these moments are for students' ability to learn.

Student motivation: Round 1 in the battle!

Nothing is more important that having students motivated to learn.  Let's learn from Daniel Pink, one of the world's experts on motivation, and share ideas on what we can do to get students more motivated in our classrooms!

The art of questioning, dive #2

Let's take a look at a recent article which provides many cool ideas for increasing high order thinking in the classroom.  

A collaboration challenge

Let's keep it simple.  A 5-minute collaboration challenge.  Are you up to improving your practice this week?

Through our students' eyes, student interview #1

Sometimes we can learn the most from our students!  This week we interview a 4th grade student in an urban school to hear why she loves her teacher so much.