A Lesson Plan for Teachers

JUNE 7, 2023

As a teacher, the summer break is a well-deserved opportunity to relax, recharge and rejuvenate before the start of the new academic year. Whether you plan to travel or stay home, here are five things you can do to unwind over the summer. Unplug and Disconnect from Work After a long and hectic academic year, […] The post 5 Easy Ways for Teachers to Relax Over Summer Break appeared first on A Lesson Plan for Teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2023

When I took calculus in high school, I didn’t understand a single concept. By the grace of an extremely generous teacher, I marginally passed the class. In college, I got through three levels of calculus, but I didn’t understand anything. During my second attempt at learning Calculus III, I listened as the professor described missile trajectories and satellite positioning, and I asked myself: “I’m a bio major, when am I going to launch a missile!?

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

Little kids make better philosophers than most adults. That’s the surprising argument made by Scott Hershovitz, a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Michigan. And he worries that too often, teachers and other adults brush off or ignore kids when they ask things like, “Are we all just a figment of someone else’s dream?” “Kids are new to the world, and they're constantly puzzled by it,” says Hershovitz.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2023

Consider the last time you used a recipe to bake something, for example, a chocolate cake. Maybe it was a special occasion like a birthday, and you wanted to surprise someone with a homemade chocolate cake. The recipe details the ingredients you need, the sequence you should mix them in, and the exact temperature and duration required to bake your cake to perfection!

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Digital Promise

JUNE 6, 2023

The post Supporting AI Literacy for Educators: New and Emerging Resources appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s often hard to express exactly why certain teachers make such a difference in our lives. Some push us to work harder than we thought we could. Others give us good advice and support us through setbacks. Students describe how a caring teacher helped them “stay out of trouble” or gave them “direction in life.” What we cherish often has nothing to do with the biology or Bronze Age history we learned in the classroom.

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow the algorithmic steps of the math problem, she struggles with her reasoning and ability to make sense of the steps she is taking. As she struggles to answer the question, two other students begin to whisper questions in her ear.

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Education Elements

JUNE 6, 2023

As school leaders, we know how difficult it can be to change the culture and reputation of a school. It takes dedication, hard work, and a team of educators who are committed to making a difference. These ingredients were in place to achieve transformational success at Hall Success Academy (HSA) in Aldine ISD. We can all learn important lessons about how to implement successful shifts by learning about the story of the HSA campus redesign team, including teachers, school principal, assistant pri

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. 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: While developers of artificial intelligence and industry leaders debate the risks and precise consequences of the tech

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

Campuses are back open as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, but plenty of students continue to take classes online — especially at community colleges. But are these online students as engaged as those in traditional classes? That was the research question posed in the latest Community College Survey of Student Engagement, a large-scale survey of more than 82,000 students across 181 community colleges.

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Edthena

JUNE 6, 2023

Educators are continually striving to improve their teaching practices. Working towards classroom goals is more effective with a structured process – we have the science to back it up. Improvement science is an approach to educator growth rooted in data, inquiry, and iteration that teachers can use when developing teaching practices. Instead of teachers simply trying to strengthen teaching practice without a plan or process, improvement science provides a clear framework for getting better.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2023

The post Reflections from eLearning Africa 2023 appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

The time has come to face up to a troubling fact: Affirmative action is a policy designed to affect access to higher education, but many colleges have never sufficiently addressed their role in preparing students for a successful transition to life in college or gone beyond a laissez-faire approach to providing supports once they get in. After the Supreme Court issues its long-awaited decisions this month, observers expect that the long-held practice of considering race as a factor in college ad

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The pandemic left plummeting test scores in its wake, especially in math. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results from last year returned historically big declines in scores for fourth and eighth graders in math, leading to fears that catching students up would prove difficult. The good news is that this particular malady has a prescription for treatment: “high-dose” tutoring — a concentrated form of small-group study that meets multiple times per week.

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 9, 2023

So, you prepared all your forms and materials, gained permission, set up the classroom[s] and conducted your experiment and you have anonymised raw data for the two conditions.

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ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

You may be wondering how a house on a gravel road in the small town of Dyess, Arkansas (population 288) could be used as a learning tool. Dyess Colony was established in 1934 as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal program. The 16,000-acre colony was designed to resemble a wagon wheel. Today, students can explore the heart of the colony, that included the Administration Building, a grocery store, supply center, café, and repair shop.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2023

Climate change is here, now, lapping at the walls of higher education — quite literally. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Nathalie Saladrigas is an undergraduate at Miami Dade College, where her off-campus housing regularly floods. “You can’t even leave your car in the parking lot because it will get flooded — I mean up to your knees flooded,” she told me.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

It’s common for parents in the United States to leave their children in the care of family, friends and neighbors. This group of caregivers actually represents the most prevalent type of non-parental child care in the U.S. But it’s a job that often goes unseen and underpaid. Many of these caregivers don’t identify as part of the child care workforce and have never even heard the term family, friend and neighbor (FFN) provider , which is used in the field to describe this type of arrangement.

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Students of History

JUNE 5, 2023

Around May of each school year, I start thinking about US History EOC review activities to get my students ready for their state assessment. No matter if you have a “high stakes” state test or local assessment, you’ll want to prepare a range of review games, activities, worksheets, study techniques and practice tests to get students ready for their end-of-year exam.

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MPSA

JUNE 5, 2023

By Emily Boykin, Doctoral Candidate in Public Administration at Florida State University As a newfound Ph.D. candidate and first-time instructor of record this past semester for an undergraduate course, I’ve reflected quite a bit on my educational progression and informed pedagogy. With my blogging powers, I felt it pertinent to subject MPSA readers to this inner dialogue and potentially strong exclamation here when I say: if not for the conferences I attended as an undergraduate student (MPSA i

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Editor’s note: This story about education in Nepal was produced by Global Press Journal and is reprinted with permission. BANKE, NEPAL — English and health studies are 14-year-old Dilip Godiya’s favorite subjects. Unlike other subjects taught at his school in the city of Nepalgunj, they don’t require him to be effortlessly fluent in Nepali. Dilip grew up speaking Awadhi at home, the mother tongue of half a million Nepalis and millions more in northern India, so adjusting to Nepali as a lan

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ED Surge

JUNE 5, 2023

EdSurge senior reporter Emily Tate Sullivan won a top journalism prize this month for her work documenting the chronic, national problem of low teacher pay in the United States. The Education Writers Association named Tate Sullivan the winner of a 2022 National Award for Education Reporting in the beat reporting category. The honor recognizes a collection of five stories she reported and wrote last year about the financial difficulty many educators face, the strategies they use to make ends meet

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Dr. Preece

JUNE 3, 2023

I want to be clear, and put this up front. I’ve been involved with the Royal Geographical Society as a Fellow for many years, and then more recently as a Trustee and an elected member of Council. I’ve been a Chartered Geographer (Teacher) for a number of years, and an assessor too. This post is my personal opinion. It’s not been directed by the RGS, and all opinions here are mine – not the Society’s!

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 8, 2023

The Exploration section of your IA experiment is the simplest, providing you know the difference between 'describe' and 'explain'! Read on for help with your IA.

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Education Week - Social Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

They're teaching how to defend the discipline against charges of indoctrination and maintain quality despite curricular restrictions.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

School has always been a source of comfort for Pricila Cano Padron — so much so, in fact, that she describes it as a “second home.” She’s not kidding. Growing up, the Texas native would voluntarily sign up for summer school and extra credit classes, just to spend more time in that environment. “I always did something to be in a school because I just felt like myself there,” she explains.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 7, 2023

“Most Canadians live south of Seattle,” my editor Alex writes. “You probably knew this, but have you ever done a map on that?” I’m pretty sure I have, some years ago on the Strange Maps Facebook page. As I try to locate that particular post, it gets me thinking about other examples of this phenomenon. Other examples include the counterintuitive fact that Canada extends as far south as California, and the equally unexpected fact that New York City, on the east coast of Nor

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 7, 2023

Time to start planning the IA - but read this post first!

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Education Week - Social Studies

JUNE 5, 2023

In St. Petersburg, Fla., a summer program focuses on the diverse histories of Africans and African Americans.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

Even when she was a 9-year-old, recently arrived to Nevada from Mexico with her family, Liz Aguilar knew she was going to college. She told her parents that she didn’t care about having a quiceñera, the big coming-of-age celebration that Latino families host when a girl turns 15. Put that money away for college, Aguilar told them. So the quiceñera never happened.

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