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10 Strategies to Strengthen Instruction and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. When it came to the lesson plan piece, many of my colleagues and I in the Northeastern United States were educated in the Instructional Theory Into Practice Model (ITIP) developed by Madeline Hunter.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

Common Sense Media has curated a suite of recommendations for the best student collaboration tools , messaging apps , lesson-planning websites , interactive video apps , tools for project-based learning , and apps and websites for flipped classrooms and virtual field trips to help educators wade through what’s out there.

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How Creative Technology Can Help Students Take on the Future

ED Surge

It’s also important to equip them with professional-quality templates and assets so that the projects they’re creating actually look like professional outputs. Pedagogically, this approach is real-world, authentic, project-based learning. Take Adobe Express for Education , for example. million certifications.

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4 Ways to Discover the Best Edtech

Digital Promise

The infusion of technology into our culture is the greatest change that our educational system has ever experienced. Not long ago, many schools required teachers to include the use of technology in their daily lesson plans. Could this product provide a project-based learning experience?

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5 Ways To Create Positive Parent-Teacher Relationships

Passion for Social Studies

Sometimes teachers have to stay after school to complete lesson planning, grading, copying, or other tasks that they might not have been able to finish during the day. Never make assumptions about your students based on past revelations from former teachers. Keeping expectations is very important. every weekday.

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

To date, they have created more than 100 maker-focused lesson plans for students in Grades 1 to Grade 8 in both English and French Immersion programs. Nine more school boards have joined for the second year of the project. A maker culture fosters 21st-century skills such as communication, collaboration and creativity.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.