TCI

JANUARY 21, 2025

While games cannot replace classroom instruction, they can enhance learning when intentionally integrated into a lesson plan. A 2021 study highlighted a positive relationship between gamified learning and student motivation from 2015 to 2020. You can integrate simple gamified routines or infuse game elements into your lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

They create lesson plans and curriculums that are both rigorous and accessible and foster environments in which all students can thrive. They train new teachers to recognize and value diversity as an asset and encourage engagement with families and local communities.

Teaching 131

Teaching Lesson Plan Public School Tradition 131

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

What Teachers Pay Teachers Is Learning From Bad Lessons and Upset Teachers by Stephen Noonoo The popular lesson planning site Teachers Pay Teachers has long struggled with allegations of plagiarism, racist lesson plans and poor content quality—drawing the ire of teachers and social media users.

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K-12 Tutoring EdTech Social Justice 114

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

We’re pulling out our hair trying to figure out lesson plans, distance learning platforms and assignments. To help reduce the spread of coronavirus, districts across the country have closed schools, many for the rest of the academic year. Parents are left to play the role of teacher, principal and lunch lady all at once.

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K-12 Economics Lesson Plan Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Many of Kaler-Jones’ students — most of them Black — weren’t taught about important Black figures or positive history lessons from a non-white perspective in school. When she discovered this, Kaler-Jones began weaving culturally responsive lesson plans into her dance classes. Credit: Courtesy of Cierra Kaler-Jones.

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Oral History History Pedagogy Lesson Plan 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. The devices are headed to seventh and eighth graders.

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K-12 Library Lesson Plan Professional Development 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Early evidence that social studies might be used as a lever to boost reading achievement arrived in September 2020 with a quantitative analysis from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. who started kindergarten in 2011.

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Social Studies Civics Geography Elementary School 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In a similar vein, Indiana recently passed House Bill 1134, which requires teachers to submit their lesson plans and curriculum materials in advance of instruction so that parents can preemptively opt their children out of any undesired lessons, as though school is an a la carte menu and their children can bypass the broccoli.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2020, some of California’s public universities allowed applicants to skip Algebra II and substitute data science. With the rise of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT that rely on data sets, students also need to understand how to use AI in a responsible way, he added.

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K-12 Social Studies Lesson Plan Middle School 137

ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

In the winter of 2020, I participated in a two-day youth organizing retreat in Detroit. In the summer of 2020, I worked with youth organizers in Detroit to conduct listening sessions with youth across the city and state; we wanted to support local organizations in developing their own education justice campaigns.

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Humanities Leadership Advocacy Lesson Plan 122

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Part of the challenge of the question is that it’s easier to think about classroom instruction in terms of lessons or units of curriculum than moments or actions. I can show you my lesson plans, my binders, my Google Classroom pages, but it’s harder to show you a moment when a young person felt challenged or included or inspired.

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Local History Civics Lesson Plan Social Science 127

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. And, among the students who needed tutoring the most because they had failed a class with a D or an F in the fall of 2020, only 12 percent ever logged on.

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Tutoring Charter School Research Lesson Plan 131

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2024

None of this would have been possible before 2020. Woodworking instructors from different districts started to gather monthly, comparing lesson plans and creating wish lists for new classes and equipment. It’s my favorite subject,” she said. It’s one of my favorite things.”

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High School Lesson Plan Education Humanities 139

ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I applied for the role, was accepted and served as a PCM from October 2020 to June 2022. During that period, I continued my duties as a para, ensuring the students I worked with met the goals and mandates of their Individualized Education Plan (IEP). These are luxuries that are not afforded to most subs.

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Classroom Management Professional Development Lesson Plan Teaching 108

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

The quality of a teacher’s relationship with their students has the most significant impact on their emotional engagement at work (Hagenauer, Hascher & Volet, 2015; Tucker 2020). Many teachers begin the year with community-building activities designed to help students form interpersonal relationships with their peers.

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Classroom Management Psychology Lesson Plan High School 146

ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2022

When John first came to me in fall 2020, he was a ninth grader and we were in the thick of the pandemic, doing emergency remote learning. It was tough to gauge John’s abilities and potential because he didn’t say a word and kept his camera off during every Zoom lesson. John’s sharp intellect was apparent. Young people are tech savvy.

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EdTech Professional Development Tradition Lesson Plan 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Teaching experts say that will mean slowing down to fill in knowledge gaps —detouring from lesson plans, adding extra periods for tutoring, and more. A minute or so in, the lesson foundered — students didn’t remember quadrants, X-axes and Y-axes, concepts that were covered in their middle school math.

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Tutoring Middle School K-12 Lesson Plan 136

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

In January 2022, a National Education Association survey found that 55 percent of educators were thinking of leaving the profession earlier than planned, nearly double the number of teachers who said the same in July 2020. labor force, at 44 percent. Most educators have not left, and many never will.

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Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

But between the start of the pandemic and December 2020, up to 12% of K-12 public school students gained internet connectivity who lacked it previously, and a similar share of students got access to digital devices, estimates Titilayo Tinubu Ali, senior director of research and policy at the Southern Education Foundation. “The

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K-12 Tutoring Public School Lesson Plan 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Then, in the spring of 2020 when the pandemic erupted, Soka sent students home. But Salvatore is finding that so many students lack basic background knowledge that he sometimes teaches a mini lesson from instructional materials that he discovers online. Salvatore moved in with his mom in Brooklyn, New York.

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Tutoring Lesson Plan Library Elementary School 125

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. This summer, Northern Cass teachers and administrators have continued rewriting lesson plans and assessments, including those for “habits of work.”

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Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

They understood the need to prioritise and advocate for lesson planning as an important aspect of beginning teacher’s training despite it being in conflict with wider school developments. School leadership in England 2010 to 2020: characteristics and trends, [link] DfE (2024). International Journal of Learning. DfE (2022).

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Education K-12 Leadership Lesson Plan 88

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work? 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Learning Objectives: Students will identify the three branches of the federal government. Lesson Plan: All Grades: Ask the students if they know what the U.S. Students will identify the officials who lead the three branches. is governed. is governed.

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Government Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development 52

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

The commission also proposed a career ladder that would provide classroom teachers with leadership opportunities without pulling them out of the classroom, as well as a rebalancing of the educator workday to include more time for educators to improve their instruction and plan lessons.

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Leadership Teaching Lesson Plan Public School 132

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Parachuting In, Unprepared for Duty During the first quarter of the 2020-2021 academic year, I needed to make my first-ever parent call. One of my students, Justin, was consistently unresponsive during Zoom classes, failing to engage with classwork or respond in the chat.

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Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 107

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lesson 12: Election and Electoral College (Grades K-3) Oct. 12, 2020 • Studies Weekly Background Knowledge for Teachers: In the beginning of the United States, the Founding Fathers didn’t want a direct election for the new president and vice president. At the time, many people lived in distant rural areas.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School Professional Development 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office Sept. 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Learning Objectives: Students will learn the qualifications for people running for office. Lesson Plan: Explain to the students that they are going to act like the Founding Fathers. natural-born citizen: a person who was a U.S.

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Lesson Plan Social Studies Government Professional Development 52

Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“Centering science lessons on phenomena that are universal — like light — or deeply rooted in a region’s culture or location … can make science more relevant and interesting for students. Constructing lesson plans around the 5Es improves instruction and allows student-driven learning. What causes that to happen?’”

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Lesson Plan K-12 Professional Development Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The shift came to the school ahead of a statewide deadline to have proficiency-based graduation requirements in place for all of Vermont’s 2020 high school graduates. Most schools are on track to have new graduation requirement systems in place by 2020, but on-the-ground changes look different from district to district.

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High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 102

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 4: Voting and Elections (Grades 4-5) Sept. 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Weekly Summary: The constitution sets out very few absolute qualifications to run for national office, yet the unofficial qualities of candidates often play a much larger role in who actually gets elected.

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Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development History 52

Becoming a History Teacher

MAY 5, 2023

During the post-lesson reflective discussion, the mentor asked the most brilliant question of their mentee: “ When you have a class who will do anything you ask of them, and teaching is going this well, what next? Is there anything to do next when pupils are so willing to get on board with the lesson plan and seem to be making progress?

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Cultures History Lesson Plan Teaching 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lesson 5: Electing Congress and the President (Grades 4-5) Oct. 7, 2020 • Studies Weekly Objective for the Lesson: This lesson will examine how members of Congress and the president are elected and ask students to consider both the historical reasons for the electoral college and its modern implications. Why or why not?

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K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School Government 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw Strategy Oct. Tip: When using Jigsaw for the first time, it might be a good idea to walk the students through a trial run and model each step of the process.)

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K-12 Lesson Plan Geography Civics 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy February 26, 2024 Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work?

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Lesson Plan Professional Development Geography Civics 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Student Expectations: Students will recognize the positive qualities of good leaders. Lesson Plan: 1. Grades K-3) Sept. Students will understand the election process in the United States. Write them down on a piece of paper and bring the paper back to class.

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Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development Government 52

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

In October 2020, while networking with Chris Bacon (former UGRR Director) and Mike Broccolo (former educational specialist), we developed a mini-service learning project. In the summer of 2021, Mr. Broccolo and I reconnected to review and refine lesson plans created by teacher candidates.

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Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 31, 2020

As the 2020-2021 school year approaches, many teachers are still unsure whether they will be in their classrooms with students or logging on for more virtual teaching. One perk of my virtual teaching is that my daily schedule allows for a bit more flexibility/time for lesson planning than my traditional schools have.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Museum History 52