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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

My goal here is to inspire all teachers regardless of your setting to think about how this kind of teaching might be possible in your classroom. These are assessed with rubrics used in every class, rubrics that focus on durable, transferable skills like collaboration, effective communication, and critical thinking.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive.

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Should High School Students Do Academic Research?

ED Surge

Pushing students to get involved in research early can also amplify inequities among those who don’t have access to expensive research programs or opportunities at elite institutions. That’s not to say that teaching research skills in high school is bad, though.

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Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

The Hechinger Report

Lawrence Seaway and Power Project” that I had joined with an environmental historian to teach. These are questions of a sort every thinking person confronts every day. My students were starting to figure things out, using their critical thinking skills. How did they do it? Are we really better off now?

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