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Overcoming Language Learning Barriers With Classroom Management Tools

TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Use Classroom Management Platforms and Other Tools to Overcome Barriers in Learning a Language contributed by Al Kingsley, CEO of NetSupport Teaching a language, whether for ESL students or those learning something new like French or Spanish requires largely the same teaching skills as any other subject. Challenge No.

Classroom Management

Classroom Management EdTech Government Cultures

It's Not a Technology Issue

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Students do this all the time when dictator-like policies and rules govern technology use. The other issue is a classroom management one. Obviously kids can use technology to do this now as well. Did you ever break any school rules that you didn't agree with? The behavior argument that many make is flawed.

Pedagogy

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Primary sources include: Personal correspondence and diaries Government and civil documents Speeches and oral histories Audio and video recordings Photographs and posters Unfortunately, most textbooks provide just facts and figures, not an immersive experience.

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Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Why it matters: The federal government spent almost $2 billion on tutoring over the course of 2020 and 2021, and venture capitalists followed suit in 2022, investing more than $300 million in tutoring companies. Industry heavyweight Canvas bought Learn Platform , citing the company’s capabilities in assessing product efficacy as a rationale.

EdTech

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OPINION: Why are schools that predominately serve black and brown students consistently underfunded?

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Consequently, classrooms ballooned to 40 or 50 students, and many lacked proper air-conditioning units during 90-degree days. In response, teachers struggled with classroom management; parents complained about teachers’ inabilities to instruct students and manage classrooms; and student altercations increased.

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More companies open on-site child care to help employees juggle parenting and jobs

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

In the absence of government intervention and investment, a lot of businesses have been stepping up to make sure that their employees can access affordable child care,” said Samantha Melvin, an assistant research professor at the Erikson Institute, an independent graduate school for early childhood education.

Government

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Easy Ideas for 5 Minute Social Studies Activities

Thrive in Grade Five

AUGUST 19, 2023

That’s a classroom management nightmare. ? Having a little time at the end of class is something my students look forward to because they have an opportunity to do fun five minute social studies activities. If you find yourself with a few extra minutes of class, you definitely don’t want students to have a free-for-all!

Social Studies

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TEACHER VOICE: When it comes to teacher training, the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Canada

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

Education is a provincial responsibility in Canada and is highly centralized by the Alberta government. The curriculum is developed and coordinated by government officials and staff, but the writing is done largely by committees of practicing teachers according to agreed-upon directives (a broad curriculum revision is currently underway now).

Heritage

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As a Paraprofessional, My Role Is Undervalued, Underpaid and Too Often, Forgotten

ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Even though the work paraprofessionals do is critical and is proven to improve student learning , I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been thanked and it often feels like my voice is the last to be heard in shaping routines, classroom management practices and instruction, even for students I have worked with for years.

Professional Development

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Where to Find Stuff on tah.org: Document Page

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Ray is a former Teacher Program Manager for TAH and a frequent contributor to our blog. in the TAH bookstore.

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What is evidence-based education?

Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

He argues that it tends to link to top-down approaches where administrators and governments say that strategies work on the basis of lab research, when they may not work in a specific context. Additionally, the notion of something working doesn’t address philosophical issues of who it works for, and to what social end.

Education

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In 1967, 13 years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools to be inherently unequal, the federal government charged that the parish had maintained a segregated system. In Avoyelles, black residents are all too familiar with racial inequities between their parish’s schools.

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19 Ideas for Setting Up Your Social Studies Classroom

Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

And if you do lecture even occasionally, pick up a wireless presenter remote so you can walk around the room for better classroom management while you’re talking. Consider getting a second monitor, which makes everything from building lecture slides and lessons to entering grades much easier.

Social Studies

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Can ‘Linguistic Fingerprinting’ Guard Against AI Cheating?

ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

I think the Department of Education or local governments need to establish AI literacy as a core competency in schools. Classroom management is a delicate balance. You're always managing kids' emotions, and where they're at that day, and your own emotions, too. and the teacher goes, ‘Any use is too much.’

Classroom Management

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‘More than a warm body’: Schools try long-term solutions to substitute teacher shortage

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

The federal government provided billions of dollars to help schools recover from Covid, and some tapped that money for temporary stipends to attract new substitutes. Allison hopes that next year, the district might offer stipends for substitutes to take additional training on classroom management and basic instructional skills.

Elementary School

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COLUMN: ‘Stand by.’ ‘Shut up.’ Is this really what we want to teach our children?

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2020

I’d hoped by watching the candidates discuss government, leadership and the most important issues facing our world, he would learn something positive. Telling a troublemaker to shut up displays a lack of classroom management — and maybe leadership — skills. But it was no teaching moment.

Teaching

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Overcoming Language Learning Barriers With Classroom Management Tools

It's Not a Technology Issue

Trending Sources

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Edtech Has Grown More Common, More Global and More Sophisticated. What’s Next?

OPINION: Why are schools that predominately serve black and brown students consistently underfunded?

More companies open on-site child care to help employees juggle parenting and jobs

Easy Ideas for 5 Minute Social Studies Activities

TEACHER VOICE: When it comes to teacher training, the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Canada

As a Paraprofessional, My Role Is Undervalued, Underpaid and Too Often, Forgotten

Where to Find Stuff on tah.org: Document Page

What is evidence-based education?

Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

19 Ideas for Setting Up Your Social Studies Classroom

Can ‘Linguistic Fingerprinting’ Guard Against AI Cheating?

‘More than a warm body’: Schools try long-term solutions to substitute teacher shortage

COLUMN: ‘Stand by.’ ‘Shut up.’ Is this really what we want to teach our children?

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