Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 31, 2025

This includes everything from the impact on literature and film to the psychological scars left on soldiers. By joining the email list, you will receive freebies for blog exclusive subscribers! For instance, they will explore essential topics like the draft and anti-war protests. Vietnam War Lesson $ 6.00

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Edthena

AUGUST 31, 2022

Positive psychology. Check out the conversation above, or continue reading for highlights including what positive psychology has to do with supporting teacher well-being. Check out the conversation above, or continue reading for highlights including what positive psychology has to do with supporting teacher well-being.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

According to a paper published in the February 2025 issue of the Journal of Education Psychology, the 565 children who received the Core Knowledge lessons did better on tests of the topics and words that were taught, compared with 626 children who had learned reading as usual and werent exposed to these topics. We are all waiting for answers.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Franklin Turner who recently visited my school. is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at Queens College, CUNY. The only criterion that I had was the school had to be entrenched in their use of the above-mentioned technologies. Franklin Dickerson Turner, Ph.D.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Secondly, syndemic health conditions adversely interact through various biological or psychological mechanisms or pathways. Firstly, they involve two or more health problems that cluster together in a population. Why teach syndemics?

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Psychology and Forensic Chemistry), and Institutions. In the introductory course in biological anthropology and archaeology, “92% of students agreed that the Virtual Mystery web-tool helped them understand what a professional anthropologist does; 88.3% The VM project has expanded across disciplines (e.g.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Those of you familiar with educational psychology will recognize this as the age-old problem of transfer of training. The effectiveness of a large part of the school program is therefore dependent upon how well the students carry over into situations applications which the students never faced in the learning process.

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Psychology Sorted

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I am offering short-term online cover teaching for DP psychology. Contact me through the blog or FB.… My dream job could be your dream solution. … Continue reading →

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The scholar’s ideas are suddenly having a moment in tech and innovation circles, thanks to a blog post on a website popular among Silicon Valley insiders. The blog, Astral Codex Ten , has been described by The New York Times as “a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I’ve written on this blog before about irresponsible fearmongering when it comes to technology. Dr. Laurence Steinberg, Professor of Psychology at Temple University, said: . It’s one thing to judiciously weigh the pros and cons when it comes to technology and our children. In today’s New York Times article, Does Instagram harm girls?

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

My own school psychology textbooks, including books for the Higher and GCSE courses. There are also a wide range of resources for A-Level Psychology. I’ve been teaching Psychology at secondary school level for almost two decades. This article discusses routes into teaching the subject.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ve rounded up four resources that provide best practices for improving school culture, including how psychological safety is crucial for educators and strategies for valuing and supporting teachers. This ASCD blog post doesn’t beat around the bush when it comes to the critical role school leaders play in shaping school culture.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 11, 2024

Evidence Based Education blog. Contemporary educational psychology, 61, 101860. If we want teachers to develop expertise then we need to ensure they get to rehearse their thinking too; decomposing the decision making process as part of PD is one way we can support this. References Coe, R. EEF (2021). Education Endowment Foundation.

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Jonathan Firth

MARCH 8, 2019

Psychology in the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to What Works came out around this time last year. Co-authored with Marc Smith and aimed at both new and experienced teachers, it’s a guide to how psychology research on areas such as memory, creativity and motivation can be applied to classroom practice.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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Edthena

MARCH 14, 2023

This ASCD article explains: The term was originally coined by Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, who defines psychological safety as “a shared belief that the team is safe for risk-taking.” Fostering a culture of psychological safety means teachers feel respected and empowered to teach and take risks in the classroom.

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Jonathan Firth

JUNE 2, 2022

Image source: Unsplash In most psychology and related courses, learners are expected to write short essays or extended exam-style answers about research studies or theories. In fact, this blog post is following a similar structure, too. I want to share some tips about how to structure this type of essay.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

A February 2024 study published in Developmental Psychology provides strong causal evidence that building scientific background knowledge translates into higher reading achievement , particularly for low-income students.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Similarly, a February 2024 study in Developmental Psychology provided strong causal evidence that science instruction also drives literacy growth. The impact was particularly strong for historically underserved students, with lower-income families and English language learners (ELLs) seeing the greatest gains.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. This blog was written by Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher in Park East Day School in New York City.

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The Effortful Educator

AUGUST 5, 2024

That’s when I started this blog and posted for the first time. Almost 8 years later and almost 1 million blog hits later, I’ve got a book being published. October 2016. It still feels surreal to see where reading research and writing about its implications in my classroom has taken me. Department of Education.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Reform Merry-Go-Round Fad is the wrong word, says Larry Cuban, an emeritus professor at Stanford University who writes a blog about school reforms. It's not that specific reform ideas are fads, argues James Stigler, a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. And is it accurate?

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

For instance, our daughter is teaching herself basic psychology and our son wrote a film study of Patrick Mahomes in Super Bowl LIV. As we are all learning how to navigate home-based learning, consider sharing your story and be part of a new Digital Promise blog series on the powerful learning that’s happening across the country.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

MAY 8, 2024

There have been a couple of great blogs this year in which teachers have responded to the ideas and challenges presented by others. For example, Ben Newmark talks here about how Adam Boxer’s blog ‘annoyed him’ (it didn’t really) because it required a response – in that instance to address a specific challenge in the classroom.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Ayodele was interviewed for the teacher professional development blog PLtogether. Ayodele has worked passionately on a main project for his organization, BMEsTalk. The project focuses on creating and curating safe spaces for black male educators. You can watch the segment of the interview above, and we’ve shared some of the highlights below.

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ShortCutsTV

JANUARY 24, 2025

For those who prefer their information in a more-colourful magazine-style format than bare-bones blog posts, Ive put the two recent Marshmallow Test posts together in an online flipbook format that adds to the growing collection Ive put together over the years.

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ShortCutsTV

MAY 10, 2024

If you’re interested in free textbooks – of either the Sociology or Psychology variety – you may well have come across the Openstax Introduction to Sociology textbook published by Lumen Learning. And if you haven’t Openstax is an example of a growing field in education called OER (Open Educational Resources).

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings. Sciences of learning recognizes that many sciences inform our understanding of how people learn, such as neuroscience, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and more.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. My goal at the time was to work in conservation, ecology, and organismal biology. At the same time as I was attending university, the field was continuing its transition into more a molecular focus.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

For this reason, medicine can no longer simply concentrate on biological processes but must take note of the social and psychological as well. In the next post in this series I will discuss how techniques and technologies of psychological assessment and treatment have changed the ways in which we understand the mind and brain.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2019

Approximately 8 in 10 of those surveyed also say that learners vary by way of their personal background and knowledge, their health and psychological wellbeing, and how they think, among other things.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JANUARY 21, 2024

1 This blog is based around a talk I gave at researchED Kent 2023, although in the time it’s taken to get around to writing it up my thinking has evolved somewhat! And that, given the complexity described here, that is no mean feat!

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

I did not, for those years, experience the psychological warfare that I often see played on African American people in this country, and others around the world. JCB : I often explain to people that I grew up in Haiti for the first 11 years of my life. My heroes and leaders, my teachers, and my president all looked like me.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Dr. Callahan promotes autonomy by structuring his high school psychology course around the interests of his students. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Journal of personality and social psychology, 87(2), 246. Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being across life’s domains. Vansteenkiste, M.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Batcho in a Psychology Today article last year. In a practice that seemingly inverted the shaming principle, teacher Roni Dean-Burren reflected in a blog post how her practice of giving students extra credit for bringing school supplies ended up shaming others whose families couldn’t afford them. “I

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Psychological Inquiry,11(4), 227–268. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1681–1695. When choice motivates and when it does not.Educational Psychology Review, 19(4), 429–442. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975, 67, 776–783. Boggiano, A. Katz, I., & Assor, A. Blackwell, L. Garcia, A. Habgood, M.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

One compelling reason for bringing this type of research into the classroom is that according to psychologists, family histories can link with our ongoing psychological ‘project of the self’ and might have a therapeutic benefit for our wellbeing (Nicholson, 2018).

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