Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Part V: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part five of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Claim-Evidence-Question” routine. To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea.

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Primary Sources History Cultures Cultural Studies 148

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. Meanwhile students are setting up unofficial online channels of their own, where they can ask questions of classmates, gripe about the professor and sometimes share homework and test answers.

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Anthropology Sociology Teaching Cultures 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The first few weeks in a classroom can help set the tone for the rest of the school year.

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Teaching Education Elementary School Humanities 119

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

There are likely droves of educators who find themselves wishing they could take a peek inside their students’ minds to find out, “What the heck are you thinking?” Some of those answers were made available last month when the Boys & Girls Clubs of America released its annual survey of kids and teens ages 9 to 18. The organization says that more than 130,000 young people at nearly 3,500 clubs around the country took part in the survey.

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High School Education Cultures Educational Technology 97

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A new guide provides sample lesson plans for teachers to introduce students to learner variability, which can increase students’ sense of belonging

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Lesson Plan 99

The Effortful Educator

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

I am a teacher that absolutely loves to read research articles focusing on education. I just love it. And nothing spikes my inner nerd more than a well-written article studying a learning strategy that is directly applicable to my classroom and the students I teach. I was recently made aware of such an article (thank you, Brad Busch ) by Drs. Nicholas Soderstrom and Elizabeth Bjork.The article, Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom , takes a look at pretesting and its implication on lear

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