In the following post, we roundup our top tweets this week as part of Guildway’s weekly series. The Guildway blog posts that are featured in this week’s list include our recommended Google Chrome apps for English teachers, telltale signs of burnout, one question to ask yourself to keep students more focused, and reasons why blogging matters for teachers. If you are interested in other topics, please check out the rest of the blog posts below.
Here are this week’s top Twitter posts:
- End of the Week Roundup of Top Tweets
- 5 Simple Warning Signs That You Are Burning Out
- How To: Google Forms To Choose Your Adventure
- Productivity Recipe: Combine Schoology and Evernote [Video]
- You Should Avoid These 3 Google Docs Sharing Mistakes
- 11 Ways A Blog Will Make You A Better Teacher
- How To: Easily Organize Your Course Using Schoology
- How Can You Help Your Students To Be More Focused?
- Best Google Chrome Add-ons For English Teachers
- Why Your Online Tests Are At Risk And How To Fix It
The second part of this series is we are featuring five education influencers and five of our followers. We have also selected one tweet from each profile. If you are looking for people in the education field who are worth following on Twitter, kindly check the featured influencers this week in the list below. Furthermore, we are acknowledging another five of our followers for following us.
Influencers
Derek McCoy (@mccoyderek)
Modeling the learning and work process is critical. Students have to see US take risk, not just talk about risk. That’s how they learn good behaviors and patterns.
Lyn Hilt (@lynhilt)
What I Gave My Kid Instead of a Smartphone by @IWorryAboutYou medium.com/p/what-i-gave-…
Teach Preschool (@Teach_Preschool)
Here are some great ideas to take with you the next time you head outside! https://t.co/AFCdfqf5vh
Jon Bergmann (@jonbergmann)
Frankly: I think we need to completely rethink school. Too much of education is teacher-centric and we need to change our operating system. Much of what we are doing is #edmalpractice – see my #TEDTalk How to End Educational Malpractice youtube.com/watch?v=-_P7la…
Terry Hoganson (@TerryHoganson)
Top 10 skills middle school students need to thrive, and how parents can help https://t.co/rkQMq6yw4w
Followers
Kimberly McCorkle (@minnowdfly)
Be sure to check out these great ideas on how to use @PearDeck from @DitchThatTxtbk https://t.co/sk7AuxBYSo
TTrzebiatowski (@TTrzebiatowski)
10 Things Every Teacher Needs To Survive teachthought.com/pedagogy/10-th… So true!
Matthew Weimann (@MrWeimann)
This was written in 2015! And, it is more and more applicable as we progress digitally. https://t.co/SEsGqSYNRF
Kelly Hart (@MrsHart_rm311)
THIS. “We’re a Family” and Other School Norms that Can Cause Burnout | Cult of Pedagogy https://t.co/O0x8yDecPB
Ashley Cooksey (@AshleyCooksey2)
Stuck on Standards? Check out how I’ve broken them down into a couple of examples. #AASLstandards knowledgequest.aasl.org/stuck-on-stand… via @aasl