Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This week, we dug into the foundations of the United States government and explored how early laws shaped the country’s growth. EduProtocols were front and center as we kept students engaged and active in their learning: Monday: Introduced The Tier List to rank government systems and used Iron Chef with Padlet to analyze types of governments.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

Fixing a Paragraph : To practice critical thinking and writing, I gave them a poorly written paragraph (also AI-generated) about the topic and gave them 10 minutes to improve it. The establishment of key government structures. For example: A chain symbolizing the unification of state debts under the federal government.

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Are your government students excited for the upcoming election? Thankfully, this amazing unit has over 100 products that encourage critical thinking about political parties in the USA! This is even the perfect unit for teaching AP United States Government and Politics! This will definitely be an exciting election year.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Emphasis on Social Studies Practices: Materials emphasize inquiry-based learning, analysis of primary and secondary sources, and the development of critical-thinking skills.

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Passion for Social Studies

AUGUST 12, 2024

government critically using their own minds! Government. government is tough with all the opinions students bring to the classroom! It will help students develop their political individuality while critically thinking about our government. Add to cart Government Debates $ 6.00

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Image credit: [link] A Biology Teacher’s Thoughts on Critical Literacy by Lynne Torpie Science teachers can tend to be myopic, focusing on acquiring content detail and teaching the steps of the scientific method instead of fostering the investigative, critical thinking and written communication skills that embody real-world scientific endeavors.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 1, 2025

The combination of these strategies helped students interact with history in meaningful ways while reinforcing critical thinking and writingexactly the kind of skills they need as we approach testing season. government? Class Companion provided immediate feedback on their writing, helping them refine their responses.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Teaching the different forms of government seems easy enough – go over some definitions and provide examples, then quiz your students. Below is my dig-deeper lesson sequence for teaching the different types of government in my on-level Civics class. What are the Main Types of Government?

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

But even though Cote agrees that human grading is superior to what a bot can do, the reality is that teachers don’t have time to grade the number of essay assignments he thinks is really necessary to get kids fluent in the knowledge and critical thinking skills they’ll need to be effective citizens in our democracy.

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2022

As a governance tool, these automated transfers also reduce administrative overhead and record-keeping, which can be challenging for education programs in remote locales. As students answer questions, they collect points and receive formative feedback to develop critical-thinking skills.

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Passion for Social Studies

APRIL 12, 2024

During all of his government roles, Kenedy executed significant decisions. Best of all, students build their critical thinking skills when they have to put forth so much effort and discussion at each station. After this, he worked in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.

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History Critical Thinking Social Studies Government 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Embargos usually refer to government orders to restrict commerce or block the exchange of goods with another nation. The intent of these punitive measures is to isolate a country and create difficulties for its governing body. Related: Creating a curriculum with Black girls in mind.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2018

Automation will boost demand for science-and-tech skills as well as soft skills such as critical thinking, according to a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit. These trends will require big-picture thinking from governments, educators and businesses. Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2021

Many teachers don’t like assessments either, bemoaning the lost resources for other aspects of learning, like critical thinking , that have been drawn away by test prep. What did SpaceX do that the government didn’t? Students find testing an annoying waste of time, at best, and often frustrating.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. history, European history, human geography, AP government. You would think these traits would be fundamental for educators, but it’s often lacking.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

And that’s what we found,” said Brian Kisida, an assistant professor at Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, and the other co-author of the study. It is something that can make learning more intriguing and fun and interesting. Kisida says that this is a healthy dose of reality for arts advocates.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. ” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home.

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Research Critical Thinking Educational Technology Economics 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Students who learned virtually or in hybrid settings largely missed out on the critical thinking that develops through classroom conversations. She also serves on the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These efforts are scattershot, however, and a great approach to providing specialized science knowledge rarely crosses over into something similar for history or government. This is not a problem of higher education’s making, but a failure of public education writ large. However, it is still higher education’s opportunity to fix.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. Wall signs and foot markers materialized in a thrice. A barrage of how-to videos were posted on websites the world over.

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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. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations. government as well.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Instead, he says, the group is experimenting with using data that schools have about their students — including from after-school activities like sports, clubs and internships — to measure and track progress on skills including communication, collaboration and critical thinking.

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Tradition Critical Thinking Government Education 138

ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Throughout this lesson, my students not only learn the content but also develop critical thinking skills as they analyze evidence, put together persuasive arguments and respectfully debate their peers. government. Consider this: In 1918, Congress passed the Sedition Act, forbidding “disloyal language” about the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

This includes activities that emphasize exploration and cooperation as well as developing critical thinking skills. Johnson formed Head Start in 1964, the federal government has been involved in shaping early childhood education. The federal investment highlights the importance of providing children with opportunities to excel.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. The new exams test critical thinking and problem solving, not just rote memorization.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 26, 2024

We tackled the Boston Tea Party with Number Mania to dig into key details and wrapped up with an inquiry lesson on “having a voice in government.” Each protocol helped keep the energy high while pushing students to think critically about the events leading up to the American Revolution.

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Primary Sources History Government Critical Thinking 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

according to Holroyd Pearce, partners with universities, colleges and governments, which typically fund the program or grant academic credit — often to students who face barriers to getting work experience. The company, whose biggest market is now the U.S., Micro-internships like Nabeel’s are another relatively new option.

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Government Tradition Professional Development Critical Thinking 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Government and Politics curriculum. It’s the kind of learning that’s going to propel students who have been further from opportunity forward at a more rapid rate with the kinds of critical thinking and problem solving skills that they need.”. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. 6th grade science. Curriculum. We know it works.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Others in the class applied for and received funding from their university’s student government association and held a campus-wide night of remembrance. Another resource for further exploration is the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero’s Visible Thinking project.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Maybe it's that city governments band together to say in each, in each town we will create a kind of metaverse area … where schools can go on field trips and we will have what they need to make sure that they can visit [virtual] Greece … and they can engage in citywide themes where people have different or some shared facility.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The federal government has used this to standardize its job descriptions and to help employees identify new roles that might be a match for their talents. Industrial-organizational psychologists and other experts have been doing job and task analysis for decades on behalf of the military and the federal government. Housed in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images. Related: Before assigning homework, ensure that students have a home.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 12, 2024

But here is the twist: this ongoing race, even supported by the government of the United States, looks like the old days when explorers sought to find new lands and ended up stating them as their own. It is a reminder that the motivation to colonize generally has deeper drives of control, governance, and profit even though it is not on Earth.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2022

The high school student, Gesenia Alvarez from Travis High School, said she would “change the way teachers teach” so that it de-emphasizes rote memorization and encourages critical thinking. The system is broken,” said John Mark Wesley Hunter, a student at Austin Community College studying art and animation.

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Education Critical Thinking High School Teaching 115

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Louis, too, has created career communities — one each in business; arts, design and media; healthcare and sciences; government policy and social impact; technology, data and engineering; and “career exploration,” for students who haven’t yet settled on a field. Washington University in St.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

In their 2016 Workforce-Skills Preparedness Report, PayScale and the executive development firm Future Workplace found that CEOs and human resources professionals seek recent college graduates who possess writing and public speaking proficiency, critical thinking and leadership skills, interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

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