TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Harnessing Kairos: Balancing Structured Time and Learning Velocity in K-12 Classrooms Time in education is about more than minutes on the clock or adhering to rigid schedules. Its about how students experience time cognitively and emotionally in the learning process. A deeper dive into these ideas reveals actionable ways to create meaningful learning experiences for students.

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Lesson Plan Critical Thinking K-12 Teaching 199

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The post District to District Collaboration Drives Innovation for Computational Thinking Pathways appeared first on Digital Promise.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Use Classroom Management Platforms and Other Tools to Overcome Barriers in Learning a Language contributed by Al Kingsley, CEO of NetSupport Teaching a language, whether for ESL students or those learning something new like French or Spanish requires largely the same teaching skills as any other subject. Yet, in some critical ways especially for ESL students the challenges are magnified by the comprehension barrier.

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Classroom Management EdTech Government Cultures 138

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The 2024 election revealed a troubling reality: Widespread miseducation and fear-mongering continue to shape political outcomes at the expense of people of color and marginalized communities. This is why the right launched a nationwide anti-CRT campaign and book bans restricting teaching about systemic racism, and erasing the histories of immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Critical Thinking History Teaching Education 52

C3 Teachers

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Engaging with inquiry in the social studies classroom can feel like stepping onto a tightropebalancing time, standards, and student needs all at once. But heres the thing: you dont have to dive headfirst into a full-scale investigation to get students curious and thinking critically. Small, manageable inquiry moments can transform your lessons, building student confidence and sparking their love for exploring big questions.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 12, 2024

From Laughter to Learning: Teaching Methods through Engaging Narrative Workshops By Joel Martinsson , and Emma Ricknell , Linnaeus University Can we increase students grasp and integration of research methods in political science, and do so in a fun way? We believe the answer is yes. In this article, we introduce the workshop-based narrative framework The Tale of Folke Folkesson, where students role-play as the methods expert group Linnaeus Opinion Laboratory (LOL).

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Political Science Teaching Research Education 33

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Findings from a recent survey by the Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth, show transgender, gay and nonbinary teens have worse mental health than their peersand school policies targeting them contribute to their mental health struggles. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The data comes from the Trevor Project's 2024 national survey on mental health, gathered from more than 28,500 LGBTQ+ young people in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A big part of Elizabeth Houses job is encouraging students to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. The FAFSA is the key to support for financial aid such as Pell Grants and federally backed loans, but parents must provide their Social Security numbers or fill out nine zeros if they do not have one. For students who have family members without the proper immigration documents, filling out the form has long been seen as a risky way to draw attention to their familys sta

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