{"id":14475,"date":"2025-10-30T06:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theedublogger.edublogs.org\/?p=14475"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:40:43","slug":"50-prompts-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/50-prompts-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"50 New Blog Post Ideas For Educators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you have a professional educator blog?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many teachers start blogs with good intentions but keeping them active long term can be a struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes the hardest part of maintaining momentum with your blog is knowing what to write about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re here to help!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the year, we’ve been including blogging prompts for teachers and students in our email newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not signed up to our email newsletter? You can add your details here<\/a> and make sure you add news@edublogs.org to your contacts to prevent the emails from going to your spam folder!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve compiled these prompts into a resource for you. With 50 new blogging prompts, you should be set for many months to come!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scroll down to find a printable PDF.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also published over 100 prompts for students<\/a> on The Edublogger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If creating your own blog is something that’s been on your to-do list for too long, we can help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in the year, we updated our free, self-paced course for educators looking to get started with blogging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are ten steps which you can work through in a sequential order. Or you can pick and choose as you wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the Personal Blogging Teacher Challenge here<\/a> or go straight to the course. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 50 Prompts For Educators<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Write a book review — it could be a book you’ve read for fun or learning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Make a list of 10\/50\/100 things you’re grateful for. Maybe you could even create a sketchnote or graphic like Dani Dipirro.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Compare your first year of teaching to today. How have things changed?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Share some of your favorite ways to relax and recharge outside of school hours.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Embed an inspiring TED Talk<\/a> and write your reflections.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Share 5 myths about teaching or a topic you’re passionate about.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Write about an app or web tool you use regularly or find useful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Publish a photo of when you were a student and describe this time of your life.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Try Hubspot’s Blog Ideas Generator<\/a>. Just enter three words and you’ll be given five\u00a0ideas that you can tweak.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Blog roundup. Create a list of 5 or 10 of your favorite blogs and share the reasons why you recommend them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Interview someone for a blog post. This could be a colleague, a former student, or someone from your professional learning network. Or, you could invite someone to prepare a guest post for your blog.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Create an A-Z of yourself, your career, or one of your passions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Where do you connect with other teachers online? Twitter? Facebook groups? Instagram? Share your favorite ways to learn from others in the education community.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Explore the website Will Robots Take My Job<\/a>? Share your findings in a post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Write about the old technology you used to use at work or home that’s now obsolete. Perhaps it’s the VCR, floppy disk, or typewriter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Make a new anchor chart for your classroom and photograph it for your blog. Check out this We Are Teachers post<\/a> for inspiration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. When was the last time you wrote a poem? Why not give it a try in a blog post? For inspiration, Kevin Hodgson has written 3 poems about writing.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Consider the popular quote doing the rounds on social media: “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone”. What does this mean to you?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. What do you do when you have a few minutes left at the end of a class? Share your ideas with other teachers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Flexible seating is a hot topic! Share your thoughts in a blog post or weigh up the pros and cons. Pernille Ripp’s post<\/a> might provide some inspiration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. Suggest some ideas for worthwhile activities at the start or end of the school year.\u00a0Ten Creative Alternatives to Showing Movies Before the Break<\/a> by John Spencer might provide some inspiration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Try making a meme that you could share with readers, colleagues, or perhaps your students. Check out ISTE’s post about using memes with students<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. There has been some online debate about having a “Pinterest perfect” classroom. What are your thoughts on this topic? Maybe you could add a touch of humor to your post like this post on Bored Teachers.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Offer some tips for new teachers. This might be general advice or specific to a certain subject or age group.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. Write about how you keep your passion for teaching alive. This post on Edutopia<\/a> might provide some inspiration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. Share a tweet, Facebook post, or Instagram post that made you reflect, laugh, or change your way of thinking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. Check out the self-care calendar from Action for Happiness<\/a>.\u00a0Use one or more of these challenges as inspiration for a blog post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. Richard Byrne has explained how to find old newspapers through Google’s Newspaper Archive<\/a>. Reflect on an interesting article in a blog post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. Lumen5<\/a> is a cool tool to make a video out of an article or blog post. Give it a try and share your video in a post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. If you could choose any book as mandatory reading for all high school students, what would it be and why?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  31. What role do you think technology should play in the classroom? <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  32. What makes you happy at work? Your colleagues? Your leaders? The students? Write a post about happiness in the workplace.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  33. Larry Ferlazzo has written about the impact of making positive phone calls home<\/a>. Blog about your favorite approach to parent communication.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  34. Publish a post sharing your own favorite tips to get more out of your day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  35. Read Kevin Hodgson’s post, “How Can We Tell If We Are Biased If We Already Are Biased?<\/a>” Write your own reflections on this topic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  36. Sue Waters has shared her top 100+ crime and mystery novels of all time<\/a>. Choose a category of books that you enjoy and share your own top reads.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  37. How do you build relationships with students? Reflect on your approaches in a blog post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  38. Rich at 4 O’Clock Faculty has blogged about “do it yourself professional development<\/a>“. Read the post and write about your own favorite forms of\u00a0PD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  39. Tell your readers something about your colleagues. “We All Need To Be\/Have Kind Colleagues<\/a>” from The Idealistic Teacher might provide some inspiration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  40. Teachers are also students and students are also teachers. Education isn’t just one way. Write about lessons you have learned from students.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  41. Larry Ferlazzo has shared an article about using “cash”<\/a> as a behavior management strategy. Share your own approaches to behavior management.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  42. David Geurin asks 5 Questions For Deeper Reflection<\/a>. Use one or more of these as inspiration for a blog post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  43. Write about your morning routine at home, work, or in the classroom.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  44. How do you find balance in your life? “Rethinking Balance<\/a>” by George Couros might provide some inspiration for your own post.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  45. Write your own reflections about grouping students by age.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  46. Have you tried sketchnoting? Why not give Sylvia Duckworth’s #SketchnoteFever <\/a>mini lessons a try and blog about it?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  47. Explain why you blog. What do you get out of it? Does it help refine your thinking or do you just enjoy helping others?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  48. Write about your life before teaching. What other jobs did you have? How did these experiences shape you?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  49. Try\u00a0Impact Impact\u2019s Blog Title Generator<\/a>\u00a0to spark ideas for blog post titles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  50. Check out last year’s publication with 50 more blogging prompts for teachers<\/a> and see what you’ve missed!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Get Your PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    For your convenience, we’ve assembled these prompts into a PDF that you can save to your computer, print, or share with colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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