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How I Eliminated (Almost) All Grading Problems In My Classroom

TeachThought

I Eliminated (Almost) All Grading Problems In My Classroom by Terry Heick Grading problems are one of the most urgent bugaboos of good teaching. Grading can take an extraordinary amount of time. It can also demoralize students, get them in trouble at home, or keep them from getting into a certain college. It can demoralize teachers, too. If half the class is failing, any teacher worth their salt will take a long, hard look at themselves and their craft.

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TCI Monthly Recap: August 2024

TCI

Stay updated with our newest features and tools. Here are the latest updates from last month: Randomizing Answer Choices: You can now shuffle the order of answer choices in close-ended questions (e.g. multiple-choice questions), giving each student a unique set of answers. To enable this feature, check “Randomize answer choices” when assigning the assessment.

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15 Alternatives To Report Cards

TeachThought

15 Alternatives To Report Cards In The K-12 Classroom by TeachThought Staff Like lunchboxes (or brown paper sacks), field trips, and textbooks, report cards are iconic–symbols of traditional classrooms and traditional approaches to education. In its name, the purpose of a ‘report card’ is plain enough: to report on progress. But it’s not that simple.

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Learning to Cope With Anxiety As a School Leader

ED Surge

I can’t pinpoint exactly when I developed anxiety, but that’s because I didn’t know about it. When I was growing up, I didn’t hear about the topic of mental health unless it was the butt of a joke. However, I do remember when I first learned that the tightening in my chest, the burning sensation in my hands and the sleepless nights were related to anxiety.

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Lipid Nanoparticles In Drug Delivery: Strategic Considerations For Leadership

TeachThought

Lipid Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery: Strategic Considerations for Leadership Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have emerged as one of modern medicine’s most significant drug delivery systems. They play a pivotal role in the success of mRNA-based vaccines and other advanced therapies. With their ability to deliver drugs, genes, and vaccines with high precision and efficiency, LNPs are revolutionizing how we treat a wide range of diseases, from infectious diseases to cancer.

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The Dynamics of Early Human Dispersal Across Europe: A New Population Model

Anthropology.net

Researchers have developed an innovative population model 1 that sheds new light on the complex dynamics of human dispersal across Europe during the Aurignacian period, approximately 43,000 to 32,000 years ago. This interdisciplinary collaboration between climate scientists and archaeologists offers unprecedented detail in understanding how early anatomically modern humans spread across the continent, influenced by the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the Last Ice Age.

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Worldly Wednesday #1 - 04.09.24

Living Geography

Well, today was my first Worldly Wednesday. You'll remember that I said I was going to do these each week this academic year. This first one was quite low key as it was a novelty to be at home during the week in term time. I did some reading around the new Curriculum and Assessment Review and had some email exchanges regarding this. I did some writing for the several textbook projects I am currently working on.

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Thought for the Day

Living Geography

THE STRAIGHT LINE LEADS TO THE DOWNFALL OF OUR CIVILISATION I dare say that the lines I trace with my feet on the pavement walking to the museum are more important than the lines I will find there hanging on the walls inside. And it pleases me enormously to see that the line I trace is never straight, never confused, but has a reason to be like this in every tiny part.

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Trading Diversity? Judicial Diversity and Case Outcomes in Federal Courts

Political Science Now

Trading Diversity? Judicial Diversity and Case Outcomes in Federal Courts By Ryan Copus , University Of Missouri–Kansas City , Ryan Hübert And Paige Pellaton , University of California, Davis Are federal lawsuits resolved differently based on the race or gender of the judges assigned to hear them? Recent empirical research posits that women and judges of color decide cases more liberally, at least in some identity-salient areas of law.

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Magmatic Memories

Living Geography

I spent two days last week at Rayburn Tours' HQ in Derby. I work as a Field Studies Tutor (FST) for Rayburn, and go out twice a year or so to help students and teachers interpret the amazing landscape and culture of Iceland. After some delay because of COVID etc., the company was keen to gather us all together to meet each other face to face and allow us to meet and take us through some updates that would help us with our work.