TeachThought

JULY 18, 2024

by Terry Heick My wife is a schoolteacher, and recently I’ve been listening to her online meetings. And there have been a lot of them. It’s July 2024 and a week or three from the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year in the United States depending on your local school district’s schedule. Yesterday, I was at a cafe sitting next to what seemed to be a group of teachers and they had a lot of ideas.

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Teaching Classroom Management Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan 274

Active History Teacher

JULY 18, 2024

You’ve taught the Constitution to the best of your ability. You look out at the faces of your students and they are blank. I feel your pain. Teaching the Constitution is hard, especially to younger students. The question is, “What kinds of Constitution activities will help them apply what they know and help them remember?” Every year I teach the Constitution I want to try something new.

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Primary Sources History Teaching 195

ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

Colleges are adjusting to a lingering impact of COVID-19 shutdowns that kept kids out of physical schools at key points in their social development: It’s harder than it used to be to teach students to adjust to college life when so many are coming to campuses nervous about making social connections. As a result, many colleges and universities are rethinking their freshman orientation programs, adding new options and doing more to help students forge relationships.

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Active History Teacher

JULY 18, 2024

Let’s be honest. Timeline activities can be really boring for students. Most of the time, students are just copying off a website or book and aren’t doing any critical thinking! Adding a little competition and fun create the best timeline activity ever! Enter: Timeline Races! Making a timeline doesn't work. The skill of sequencing can be tough for many students!

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Critical Thinking History Teaching 195

Edthena

JULY 18, 2024

Big news! Science of Reading-based coaching is now available within the AI Coach platform. As teachers complete coaching cycles, they can select the Science of Reading pathway to access research-based content, strategies, and best practices. This new PD option is within the AI Coach by Edthena platform and empowers educators with cutting-edge technology and evidence-based practices: Flexible, self-paced professional learning Hundreds of research-backed strategy recommendations Personalized instr

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Anthropology.net

JULY 18, 2024

Cut marks on ancient fossils have been identified as evidence of human exploitation of large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a study published on July 17, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE 1 by Mariano Del Papa of the National University of La Plata, Argentina, and his colleagues. Introduction: Revisiting Early Human Occupation in South America The timeline of early human presence in South America remains a hotly debated topic among anthropologists and archa

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Humanities Archaeology History Research 92

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2024

This is an edition of our Future of Learning newsletter. Sign up today to get it delivered straight to your inbox. There’s little doubt that artificial intelligence will fundamentally alter how classrooms operate. But just how much bot-fueled instruction is too much? I chatted with Hechinger contributor Chris Berdik about his recent story , co-published with Wired, that explores these themes and how some schools are deploying AI assistants in the classroom.

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Humanities Tutoring History High School 85

Political Science Now

JULY 18, 2024

Political Parties and American Democracy Mini-Conference I Thursday, September 5, 8:00am – 5:30pm Political Parties and American Democracy Mini-Conference II Friday, September 6, 8:00am – 5:30pm Political Parties and American Democracy Mini-Conference III Saturday, September 7, 8:00am – 5:30pm View all 2024 APSA Annual Meeting Theme Panels or View all 2024 APSA Annual Meeting Pre-Conference Short Courses.

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Political Science Now

JULY 18, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Samantha Chapa , covers the new article by Joaquín Artés, Aaron R. Kaufman, Brian K. Richter and Jeffrey F. Timmons, “Are Firms Gerrymandered? “ Do you think politicians are in the pockets of big corporations?

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