Passion for Social Studies

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Government is a challenging class but often a favorite among students. They love to see how people make laws, how the president handles tasks, and how the different branches divide responsibilities. However, the United States has so many complexities, so there is a lot to remember. Thankfully, there are fantastic resources for AP Government review! These will be sure to have students ready and confident when it is time for government unit exams!

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The post 3 Tips for Guiding Students Through Inquiry-Based Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For homeless students, chronic absenteeism is dismayingly high. The number of students who regularly miss school in general has risen since the pandemic, but for homeless students, it’s been especially bad. Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts.

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The Effortful Educator

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Testing, in the form of low stakes assessment, is a widely utilized activity in most classrooms across the world. On the surface, there are somewhat direct benefits of formative assessment for the student. The ability to successfully retrieve information from memory overtly informs the student of what they know. And that is great information for both student and teacher to know.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the News Preservice teachers enhanced their teaching competencies in 11 of 14 categories using Edthena’s Video Coaching platform. This data comes from an independent study published in Nature’s “Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.” The study, conducted in the context of the Saudi National Professional Teaching Standards, used semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis to understand the experiences and perceptions of preservice teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. 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: Everyone and their mother seems to have an opinion on the three college presidents who testified before Congress last week on the topic o

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Today, a book titled ‘ Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges ‘ was released. Within this book, I contributed a chapter on ‘Diversity and Discrimination’ through my work with Diverse Educators. The book also covers topics such as engaging parents/carers, sex education, and media literacy. My co-writers and I went through many drafts and rewrites of our chapter, and my part in particular about global citizenship and so-called ‘British Values’

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