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How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

Studies Weekly

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. After students make their artifacts, they can practice listening and speaking skills by using the visuals as teaching tools.

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Inspiration Stations: A Creative Spin on the Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

Unfortunately, it’s rare to see students engage in play at school after they’ve left elementary school, but secondary students need this time too. I’m a big believer in the power of play to inspire, recharge and ignite both curiosity and creativity. I love how the Inspiration Foundation puts it.

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Professional Learning in a Pandemic

Digital Promise

Jessica Besler, a kindergarten teacher at Lakeview Elementary School, is a member of the program’s second cohort. Jessica Besler Kindergarten Teacher, Lakeview Elementary School. I’m finding a lot of great micro-credentials centered around digital learning with resources that I can apply now and in the future.

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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

Now, teachers and school leaders are working together to develop and demonstrate their skills and competencies in student engagement. Another school in KVEC’s ACT Network, Breathitt County High School is the only high school in the district. Last year, Breathitt County teachers earned 22 micro-credentials.

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The Impact of Micro-credentials on Educator Practice

Digital Promise

The artifacts educators are collecting to demonstrate their skills and the narratives that are coming out of the classroom prove how micro-credentials support educators in ways that impact their students’ learning and their school communities.

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Want Easier Principal Walkthroughs? Try Virtual Classroom Walkthroughs

Edthena

After all, the first five minutes of the math lesson usually happens at the same time for all elementary school classrooms in a certain grade. With the change to distance teaching due to the pandemic, school leaders are simply unable to drop into a classroom.

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Old school buildings give new life to child care centers

The Hechinger Report

From the outside, the building that was once Cold Springs Elementary School in Missoula, Montana, looks abandoned. Across the country, shuttered schools like Cold Springs Elementary in Missoula, Montana, are being remodeled and repurposed as centers for early child care. MISSOULA, Mont.