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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

In schools that belong to the MTC, like Messer’s school, students demonstrate learning through artifacts evidence of their skills and understanding that are collected across content areas. Example 1: A Classroom in a Competency-Based School One unit Messer teaches is a 9-week seminar called Global Zoo.

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How Edtech for Teachers Helps Collaboration and Professional Learning

Edthena

Observing the veteran teacher down the hall effectively facilitating Socratic seminars helps new teachers see and hear what success looks like. You’re] able to give really specific praise and feedback in a particular area, when you have that video artifact.”. Edtech for teachers bridges the gaps to more collaboration.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

ED Surge

One of those spaces is in a college of education classroom or a seminar room where you can kind of talk about teaching. And is there some artifact of student learning that I could look at to see whether or not I'm making progress?’ But I was surprised in the book that you noted that teachers rarely get a chance to practice teaching.

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OPINION: Can technology save the liberal arts?

The Hechinger Report

For example, the one archeologist on staff across the five participating campuses developed an anthropology course , delivered as a hybrid seminar in the spring and followed by a summer field school where students excavated indigenous artifacts on Block Island, 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

They provide educators with access to historical records, narratives of interesting people in the community, and artifacts (e.g., Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. maps, household objects, and the like) that can make lessons more engaging and impactful.

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Anthropology-Psychology interface

Anthropology for Beginners

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective. Thomas, John Dollard, Erik Erikson, Abram Kardiner, Henry A. Murray and by a growing circle of anthropologists Ralph Linton, A.