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OPINION: How can teachers help students grapple with the chaos surrounding us?

The Hechinger Report

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context. This is not a problem of higher education’s making, but a failure of public education writ large.

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A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children

The Hechinger Report

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich., The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.)

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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OPINION: Can this 12-step program from Finland aid U.S. education?

The Hechinger Report

As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students. Create an emotional atmosphere and physical environment of warmth, comfort and safety so that children are happy and eager to come to school. 6) Make homework efficient.

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How to improve schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to students

The Hechinger Report

A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed. Summer break gave school leaders time to reflect on the lessons of the spring and create more effective reopening plans for the fall. Credit: Corinne Livingston.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession.

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TEACHER VOICE: What was troubling enough as 20th century history is happening in the present time

The Hechinger Report

This work needs to begin in elementary school, where students’ ideas about their place in the world are shaped. Here are some ways to do that in elementary school classrooms: First and foremost, it is vital that young people have a place to process disturbing news and to be reassured that their lives matter and that they are safe.

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