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Promoting Literacy: Cultivate a Reading Culture

Catlin Tucker

September 8th is International Literacy Day, a great time to think about promoting a class culture that values reading. Below are strategies and resources I’ve used to cultivate a reading culture in my classroom. Reading logs are a controversial topic. Cultivating a culture of reading doesn’t happen overnight.

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The Power of I Used to Think…Now I Think

Catlin Tucker

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Connect, Extend, Challenge” routine. To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness.

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Responding to a summer of riots: Principles for teaching about sensitive issues in the history classroom

Becoming a History Teacher

This blog is jointly authored by Vic Crooks and Laura London based on a presentation we gave at the Historical Association Conference in May 2024. And critically, utilizing their expert knowledge to help their pupils to recognise the line between debating controversial topics and engaging in racist or bullying or even illegal behaviours.

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Sitting for long periods affect on teens’ mental health, resumés for robots and more in the news roundup

Psych Learning Curve

The current controversy about teaching reading: Comments for those left with questions after reading the new york times article. Daniel Willingham Blog) Over the weekend the New York Times published an article on the front page about the teaching of reading. ” I thought some background for people like my friend might be useful.

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

Geogramblings

Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’.

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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

To support this claim, preservice teachers might bring up the inherently political components of language preservation projects, food sovereignty, linguistic justice, abolitionist teaching, and/or culturally relevant pedagogy (Nickman, 2009; NK 360, 2018; Lyiscott, 2014; Baker Bell, 2020; Love, 2019; Ladson Billings, 1995; 2014).