Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project.

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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. Research studies have shown that comprehending an abstraction does not certify that the individual will be able to apply it correctly. Here we find very little relevant research.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Researcher Kathy Hirsch-Pasek has a challenge she would like to see lawmakers in the U.S. Just one day would be enough to show the folks in Congress how difficult and important the work is, says Hirsch-Pasek, a psychology professor at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Congress take on—call it a dare.

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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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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Psychology and Forensic Chemistry), and Institutions. Journal of Research and Practice of College Teaching. 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% Fukuzawa, S.

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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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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Research shows that students who engage in structured science learning develop stronger vocabulary, analytical thinking, and reading comprehension. A significant body of research confirms that structured exposure to scientific content enhances literacy.

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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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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, research shows that these content-rich subjects play a vital role in literacy development by building background knowledge, strengthening comprehension, and expanding vocabulary. How Social Studies and Science Strengthen Literacy Research confirms that social studies and science play a crucial role in strengthening literacy skills.

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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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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. It still feels surreal to see where reading research and writing about its implications in my classroom has taken me. October 2016. Department of Education.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

ELW : I’m glad you brought up the need to connect technology with learning sciences research, since we often talk about how Digital Promise works at the intersection of educators, researchers, and developers. How do you envision Digital Promise putting research to work to improve opportunities for students moving forward?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

How can research help everyone who is working to improve education, including teachers, educational leaders, designers, technologists, and policy makers? 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.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

With this privilege, we understand our responsibility to offer research and resources to help families, schools, teachers, and students who are navigating a new reality of learning. For instance, our daughter is teaching herself basic psychology and our son wrote a film study of Patrick Mahomes in Super Bowl LIV.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2019

At least 75 percent of public school parents, teachers, and the American public believe most students are capable of reaching high levels of educational achievement, according to a survey conducted by Langer Research Associates of New York for Digital Promise Global’s Learner Variability Project.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Ayodele was interviewed for the teacher professional development blog PLtogether. Research shows that less than 2% of educators are black male educators. Research has shown black male educators have been in positions where we’ve been asked to be disciplinarians,” he said.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JANUARY 21, 2024

For example, a teacher may have a preference for getting students to do research in order to find things out for themselves rather than the teacher simply telling them. 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!

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Intriguing research shows that popular approaches to motivate students using rewards such as money, gold stars, or points (called “extrinsic motivators”) may in fact lead them to lose interest in learning (1). For several years, the pair has worked as part of a research partnership that supports St. Relatedness.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Research has found that a focus on social-emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom helps promote these relationships, and builds well-being and academic success. There is a ton of research, but very few tools that enable [personalized learning] to come to life. Contemporary Educational Psychology , 54, 125-138. Lozada, F.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

Memorizing formulas and drilling in the “proper” approach through repetition too often take precedence over conceptual understanding and experiencing multiple strategies, both of which are important according to research. and Antonio M. How can we make students feel like they belong in the math classroom? Tips for Promoting Math Engagement.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Research shows there are four elements that help students become naturally motivated to learn: challenge , goals , feedback , and curiosity. Below we share her tips, along with other research-based ideas to help developers create products to improve student motivation. To read more on Student Motivation, visit the Research Map.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2016

Developed by University of Texas-Austin psychology professor David Yeager, purpose for learning teaches students to learn with the goal of making a broader, positive impact on the world. Research shows that when students learn with compassionate or altruistic intentions, they view their academic work as more meaningful and beneficial (4,5).

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. I completed thesis research in social behavior of introduced rhesus macaques in central Florida. My goal at the time was to work in conservation, ecology, and organismal biology.

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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

MAY 8, 2019

In the research literature, the learning advantage of distributed over massed practice is known as the spacing effect. In general, the research evidence is clear that spaced or distributed practice is superior to massed practice for long-term learning and retention. Learn more about research-backed best practices in education.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2017

As a researcher of neuroscience and a pianist myself, I understand that the mastering of this skill not only takes practice, but also requires complex coordination of many different brain regions. In 2012, our research group at the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California began a five-year study that did just that.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Perhaps there was a linked blog or research article that Brad was supposed to have read but didn’t have the time. Perhaps the CPD lead has just heard about it somewhere but hasn’t taken the time to delve into the research properly and doesn’t really understand it fully themselves either.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 5, 2017

Research suggests that 175 million young people, largely from poor countries and regions, lack basic literacy skills. But our research suggests that there is one simple way to equip your children for a life of literacy from their infancy: share picture books with them. For more research on Teaching Reading, visit the Research Map. .

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2018

To many who have not grown up with technology, when something new is encountered—be it an application or a device—it can trigger an actual psychological stress response that manifests as defensiveness or defeatism. But these behaviors are symptomatic of something more than a simple lack of software-specific training and “skills gaps.”.

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The Effortful Educator

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

And, while I firmly believe this is a topic worthy of studying by all students in all subject areas, I am lucky enough to teach a course (AP Psychology) where this is part of the curriculum. Developing something that is more easily approachable and easily applicable could be quite advantageous for the spreading of sound cognitive psychology.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While on his journey, Van Stockum wandered the outskirts of different locations without researching first. “I The second book in the series, “Surrounding the Kentucky River, From its Beginning to its End,” took three years to explore, write, research, and perfect. I write emotionally, and it moves me when I see it,” Van Stockum said.

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MPSA

APRIL 12, 2019

By Colleen Wood of Columbia University In addition to thematic panels, the 77th Annual MPSA Conference offered a wide range of roundtables on professional development including practical discussion of fieldwork and research tools and bigger debates on pedagogical practices and public engagement. But how to do that?

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Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

Finding and interpreting educational research can be a challenge for teachers. I recently joined and met with SURE - ‘School and University Research Enquiry’, a research group which has put several schools in the Glasgow area in contact with the University of Strathclyde in order to exchange knowledge and conduct new research.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

An old and contested solution to boost reading scores: phonics (The New York Times ) The bible for these educators is a body of research produced by linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists. Daniel Willingham Blog) Over the weekend the New York Times published an article on the front page about the teaching of reading.

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MPSA

APRIL 25, 2022

The session, “Online Courses & Student Engagement,” represented a wide variety of backgrounds from community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and research universities to discuss challenges around online student engagement.  He is a first-generation student, passionate coffee drinker, and excited to be blogging (for a third time!)

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