Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Every teacher shows up with their own histories and insecurities and flaws. One person who definitely knows that is Elena Aguilar, who has been coaching teachers for two decades and has written eight highly acclaimed books all centered on helping teachers grow. It can be lonely. It can be overwhelming.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. link] Reese, W.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people. The category “peasant” was thus only meaningful in relation to a larger society that included non-peasants.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

Sprinkled through Homer’s twin epics, Felice Vinci spotted a heap of similar anecdotes that pointed away from the traditional setting of the Iliad , an account of the Trojan War, and the Odyssey , the story of Ulysses’ 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy. This part of Homer’s Odyssey doesn’t sound very Mediterranean.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 26, 2024

It’s a fun and creative way to get them thinking beyond the text, and I was hoping it would engage their imaginations a bit more than traditional worksheets. It was a solid day of learning that tied the content to something personal and familiar for the students, making the history feel less distant and more relevant. On to the next!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

The people of the area really wanted a college,” Sister Ellen Doyle, president from 1986 to 1997, said in a video history. “A Homan is compiling an archive of Chatfield’s history. The target is low-income high school students who would be the first in their families to go to college and students who are older than the traditional age.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

After all, enrollment in history, philosophy, literature and other majors considered to come under the umbrella of the liberal arts has been falling for decades. It appears true that the very definition of “liberal arts” is a problem. Colleges are shedding liberal arts programs and faculty. The challenge to us now is to prove it.”.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This tendency is first expressed through its course design — three of the four core courses on “anthropology” while the last one on history being arguably a sisterly discipline. The course was thus designed to be “anti-definition.” For instance, we tried to unpack the history of tombstones based on their minute traces.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

This past academic year, all high school English and history teachers received training; this fall, it’s science and math teachers’ turn. We definitely could use more decodable texts out there that are age appropriate in its illustrations, and in its content for teens and adults,” Beverine-Curry said.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. Your history course may not specify that you are gaining skills in research, writing and evaluation logic.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Consumers are definitely ready for something different.”. Faculty at another balked at creating three-year degrees in the staple disciplines of English, history, philosophy and political science. It’s “definitely a lot more challenging,” said Zanca, at Wentworth. But it has been, hands-down. Caffeine is a big motivator.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. Ricky has a history of behavior problems in school, leading to detentions, Saturday school and occasional suspensions. Especially coming off of two years of catastrophic disruption to kids’ education.”

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Teaching American History

JUNE 11, 2024

Professor Jeremy Bailey called it “the definitive work on the Whigs,” Widenhofer recalls, “and of course it will be loaded with lots of Henry Clay. In preparation for the 2024 Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute in Richmond, VA, Amy Livingston is reading Doris Bergen’s War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. In 1995, filmmaker John Akomfrah crafts and experimental film essay titled Last Angel of History.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I At one point, five kids in the class were on YouTube, watching videos that were definitely not part of the curriculum. Eleven-year-old DeVonté Trask was busy playing a typing game on the computer.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In its final metamorphosis, influenced by the theories of orientalists, the concept of world view merged with the concept of “Great” and “Little” traditions, which contains a more balanced evolutionary view of the loss of purity. Social (psychology, sociology, communications, history, cosmology) 4. Mendelson 1956): 1.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The translocal nature of Tibetan diasporic kinship bonds has a history that extends beyond current transnational migrations. As a Tibetan-Canadian young adult said of the children in her community, “It’s very important for them to study everything they can…[because] I know we’ll definitely go back [to Tibet] one day.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

One of the risks of personalized learning is that we move away from the traditional classroom, which is a one-size-fits-all model, to a different one-size-fits-all model, just this new version has bean bag chairs and computers.’’. Betheny Gross, Center for Reinventing Public Education. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This week, I took a hard look at my teaching approach and realized I had been falling into a pattern of overloading my lessons with too much traditional content. After the video, I asked the students to revisit their definitions of mercantilism. The progression from initial guesses to a more nuanced definition was evident.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

“I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. Maybe, just maybe, if [those] students were sitting in English and history class with men and women whom the U.S.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2022

He is the creator and host of a long-running preschool series of his own, called " Danny Joe’s Tree House ,” and he says he’s trying to make something in the tradition of “Mr. But there were definitely moments where my family needed some backup. But I know that in the past, history shows us that Fred Rogers didn't like TV at all.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

The traditional American high school, by contrast, has been compared to a factory, in which kids are treated like products, to be crammed with knowledge (in the most boring way possible) before they’re ejected from the assembly line. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S Ebone Engram, 11, explains her diorama of the solar system.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

I was also fortunate to find colleagues and peers who challenged me to try new things that, from the outside, had nothing to do with traditional librarianship or my background in English and history. Gaelyn: I heard about makerspaces three or four years ago and, like any good librarian, I started doing some research!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. It’s a Mississippi tradition where politicians come to make speeches.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. — It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: La Verne takes more than 250 undergraduate transfer students per year and about 500 older-than-traditional-age adults who also cash in prior credits. It was definitely a grind.” Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. That’s just under 10 percent of its enrollment. ” He stuck with it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

My job is definitely a new one for Bozeman,” said Isabela Romero, a bilingual immigrant from Peru who joined Thrive in that role last fall. But Gallatin County — unlike larger urban centers with longer histories of providing emergency housing — has no shelter for youth experiencing homelessness and just one shelter for families.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Now she wants others to learn that history. It was one of the last remaining traditional public schools in the city. But sometimes, McKneely said, his history and his test scores don’t matter. The students are definitely trying to do the best that they can. Related: As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

We definitely want Newark students to feel like this is a place where they can come and succeed,” said Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Rutgers-Newark, which is playing a key role in the local drive to boost the share of city residents who hold college degrees and other post-secondary credentials from 12.2 percent in 2000 to 25 percent by 2025.

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 31, 2020

When I was getting my teaching degree I definitely pictured decorating my classroom, laying out cool seating arrangements, writing on the whiteboard with my terrible penmanship, and seeing dozens of teenagers everyday. History classes from this amazing location in Costa Rica in February 2019! I taught my U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Students in a world history class at Northview High School spent an afternoon course comparing multiple definitions of terrorism and discussing common threads among them. The mind-set was evident in the district’s three high schools last May, where in any given essentials classroom students were working through grade-level material.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I would definitely not give up on public schools,’’ she said. Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. CITTA has experience building both a hospital and a school in Juanga, a village in India, which now has 360 students from kindergarten through 10 th grade.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Yarmouth’s use of traditional teaching methods to answer the primary requirements of Maine’s new law could also prove to be a model for other schools nationally, as more states consider moving to a proficiency-based or competency-based system. It definitely solidifies anything you’re not sure of,” Jack said. “I

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Leah Cleary

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Teachers and students alike realized that some lessons are better learned in a more traditional manner. I was assigning SAQs this way for AP World History. I’d definitely check. Does this sound familiar? It’s not surprising if it does. One legacy of quarantine is digital burnout. About putting pen to paper.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

” ( Credit : Ernst Haeckel: The History of Creation (1876), translation revised by E. The Kumari Kandam theory remained in history textbooks in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state until the 1980s. The confusion is the result of a change of definition. India and Madagascar finally separated about 70 million years ago.

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