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Inspiration for Redesigning Your Learning Space As I have mentioned many times, I love listening to podcasts when I'm commuting.  Recently I listened to this podcast from The Cool Cat Teacher - "Do Students Learn Better in Chairs or Couches?"  In this podcast, the guest, Oskar Cymerman, talks about how he plans to Starbucks his classroom. Oskar is a  Chemistry and Principles of Engineering Teacher at Woodbury High School in the Twin Cities Metro Area, MN. After listening to the podcast, I went to Oskar's website, focus2achieve.com  and read his blogpost about redesigning his learning space. In the blog post, Oskar mentions checking out the hashtag #StarbucksMyRoom on Twitter. So I went to check it out. Ready. Set. Go School starts tomorrow. Excited! #classdesign #StarbucksMyRoom pic.twitter.com/EcJmHR1hZD — Alison Hannon (@AlisonHannon) August 14, 2016 Love flexible seating! #Kidsdeserveit #flexibleseating #StarbucksMyRoom pic.twitt...

1990 It's a well know fact that I have been teaching for 20+ years and I always tell people that one of the best parts of my job is that I rarely teach the same way twice and that the pedagogy and teaching styles are constantly changing.  (And thankfully the fashion has changed as well!) Students have also changed quite a bit from when I first started teaching in 1990!  Today's students have more of a voice in the classroom, they are digital natives and they are greater producers of content than students from the past. There are many things that we can do to better meet the needs of this new generation of learners.   Here is a list of some of them: #1 Objectives Everyday we post the objectives for our lessons.  We make sure to incorporate the objective naturally into our lesson and help students to understand the purpose for their learning.  Here is the ultimate way to post objectives in the classroom.  I need to do this! #2 - GAFE - ...