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Promoting Literacy: Cultivate a Reading Culture

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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.

Cultures

Cultures Controversial Topics Library Tradition

The Power of I Used to Think…Now I Think

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Exploring Different Cultures: When discussing cultural differences and traditions, the teacher could prompt students to share their initial assumptions and how their views changed as they learned about diverse cultures. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness.

Controversial Topics

Controversial Topics Critical Thinking Cultures Social Studies

Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

Both educators hope that teaching critical thinking and how to analyze historical events will shift the conversation away from culture war arguments about whether and how to teach controversial topics. “By

Civics

Civics Controversial Topics Education Social Studies

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

Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 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. Grosvenor (2000, p.157), This means being familiar with their school’s policies around racism and bullying.

History

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A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

Controversial Topics

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This safety is reinforced by the implied or stated requirement for educators to be “apolitical” and avoid controversial topics with students, families, and colleagues. Mindfulness transforms culture at high-needs elementary school (NPR) A struggling elementary school in East Nashville, Tenn.,

Controversial Topics

Controversial Topics Psychology Elementary School Pedagogy

Finding Our Way Forward—by Remembering

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As I listen in a little closer, I realize they’re debating everyone’s favorite controversial topic: headdresses worn by white people. But I still feel a kinship to all Native people, and the conflating of our cultures makes everything feel personal, for better or worse. I speak up. What do you think you’re talking about?

Archaeology

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How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Ultimately, we can’t prepare children for living in a rich, diverse democracy if we don’t expose them to the controversial topics inherent in our democracy.”. There’s something about race that’s so fundamentally uncomfortable in our culture — especially when it intercepts with conversations about class and privilege.”.

Social Studies

Social Studies Civics Controversial Topics Elementary School

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

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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’.

Human Rights

Human Rights Geography Humanities Controversial Topics

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

C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

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).

Social Studies

Social Studies Social Justice Controversial Topics Pedagogy

College Uncovered: The Politics of the College Presidency

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Kirk] And Rivera says that has consequences for turnover rates and campus culture. Kirk] Yet critics say it’s the presidents who are making the job more political by being so outspoken about controversial topics, rather than focusing on the central missions of their schools. Sound of protest] [Jon] And Rosenberg says Oct.

Leadership

Leadership Controversial Topics Cultures Tradition

Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

It’s baked into aspects of our culture.” While education levels are not related to conservative beliefs about economic policy, they are related to conservative beliefs about the value of cultural diversity. A solution for America’s political crisis isn’t possible if citizens don’t have a firm grasp of what’s causing the problem.

Teaching

Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics

OPINION: Our schools must figure out a way to teach this presidential election

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Schools are afraid of dividing and triggering their students amid the fraught, frenzied, hyperpartisan, superpolarized and downright ugly political culture of our country right now. It’s time we looked at the 2020 presidential race not as one that is too contentious to touch, but rather as an exercise in how to teach controversial issues.

Controversial Topics

Controversial Topics Teaching Civics Civic Engagement

College Uncovered: DEI Backlash

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

College campuses have become battlegrounds in America’s culture wars, with diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the center of the debate. So, Phillip, what goes through your head when we talk about this controversial topic? Off campus, voters are questioning whether taxpayer dollars should fund DEI programs at all.

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