ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

For example, an AR app can create interactive 3D models of historical artifacts or scientific specimens that students can learn from and explore. Some schools are fortunate enough to have a technology specialist who can co-teach and model the integration of AR until the classroom teacher is confident to fly solo.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Teacher summer camp,” Aimee Hollander, an assistant professor and director of Nicholls State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, jokingly called it. McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

What you can ask: What’s your teaching philosophy? (A What’s your training and how long have you been teaching? What do you like about teaching preschool? What you can ask: Do you have a plan for teaching children to deal with their feelings? A wide range of philosophies are effective.

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Social Studies Success

JANUARY 18, 2023

Manipulatives can be an exciting tool to add to your teacher toolbox for Social Studies, they provide you many opportunities to both teach and practice Social Studies skills and content. Manipulatives for Instruction Find or create tangible artifacts for students to explore. Can you categorize the artifacts?

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. EdSurge: Many schools have looked to bring in technology to help improve teaching. That is the main way that teaching and learning actually changes in schools. …

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 8, 2024

How to Teach Children Goal Setting Jan. Track Goals with Checkpoints and Journals One way to teach your students to track their goals is to have them draw a timeline with little checkpoints along the way of things to accomplish. Using checkpoints is a great opportunity to teach your students that small steps can lead to big changes.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 4, 2024

We recently heard from an elementary teacher who admitted to skimping on social studies instruction in her classroom. Elementary teachers have lots of ideas and models for teaching math and reading. That’s not surprising, since these subjects get the lion’s share of teaching time, and are what most states test.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. As students physically create artifacts, they visibly represent their thinking, understanding, and skills.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We just had a consultant come to my school to do a review of our social studies program. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class. I noticed something strange, however.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 • by Debbie Bagley I love the magazine and newspaper style of Studies Weekly, because with its engaging primary and secondary sources, and activities you can do right on the publication, it allows for so much more than just simply reading from a textbook – which tends to take the life out of any subject. This is very powerful.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Take advantage of your resources like lesson plans, teaching strategies, printables, and more. Because your Studies Weekly TE is organized by week, you can read through your materials and prepare week-by-week. These strategies are proven to increase student learning when teachers use them with Studies Weekly publications.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., They provide educators with access to historical records, narratives of interesting people in the community, and artifacts (e.g.,

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 7, 2024

7, 2024 • By Debbie Bagley Play-based learning is a teaching method that gives children opportunities to explore and engage in joyful hands-on activities. Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin Incorporating playful learning opportunities in the classroom has so many benefits.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Within our classes, we have students at various levels, so we, of course, need to focus on the basics of good teaching strategies and not just hand them the text and hope for the best. Good teaching strategies support not only our English Language Learners, but all of our students. So what can this look like?

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is indeed a worthy goal: we want history and social studies classrooms to be active places where students are doing the intellectual work of our discipline, and often that work is best done in conversation with peers or with a teacher or both. In the earlier grades we are often looking at a pattern of behavior or an artifact.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

C3 Teachers followed six secondary and middle level preservice teachers at the University of Kentucky as they designed inquiries for their social studies methods class. Social studies affords endless possibilities for inquiry. In the world of social studies, there are a plethora of topics to cover.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

C3 Teachers followed six secondary and middle level preservice teachers at the University of Kentucky as they designed inquiries for their social studies methods class. Social studies affords endless possibilities for inquiry. In the world of social studies, there are a plethora of topics to cover.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

Wells, Shirley Chisholm or Denmark Vesey from his high school social studies textbooks. Students can hear a narration about these individuals, read their biographies, look at artifacts from their lives, and learn about the time period in which they lived and what they accomplished. Subscribe today!

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 23, 2023

workshop: contextualize and identify meaningful artifacts, then say what the creators of those artifacts were thinking when they created them. The lesson I’ve described provided students with no information at all about audience response to the artifacts students were asked to interpret. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.

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TCI

MARCH 6, 2025

Choosing the right curriculum for middle school social studies can be overwhelming. “The students liked being able to basically hold artifacts in their hands. ” Key Features of TCIs Social Studies Curriculum So, what makes TCIs social studies curriculum stand out? .”

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Social Studies Success

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Are you serious about teaching Social Studies skills, but looking for new ways to incorporate them? One of the hardest set of skills to teach are inferencing and drawing conclusions – both require background knowledge, and with drawing conclusions, multiple examples to draw conclusions from.

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