Mr and Mrs Social Studies

JANUARY 6, 2023

Spring Classroom Activities Spring is coming up, and it often brings rapidly changing weather, some much-needed time off with Spring Break, and new opportunities for a fresh start! It is also a great time to freshen up your classroom activities and engage your middle school students in new and seasonal ways. This post will share some spring classroom activities and some ideas to bring the outdoors inside.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

Here is a website with terrific resources for the social effects of the industrial revolution. Ohio State University developed the website which includes both primary and secondary sources to help students understand the impact on family life because of the shift from a rural lifestyle to an urban lifestyle. One of the resources is a graph showing the wages for both women and men at a textile mill in Halstead, England in 1825.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Why learn art in school? This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. The arts have been part of public education almost from the beginning. Nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, the father of American public schools, believed that the arts enhanced learning. He made drawing and music part of the Massachusetts curriculum for “common schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2023

[Disclaimer: Kim Cofino is a friend of mine and I highly respect her work!]. Over the past months I have had the incredible privilege of spending a lot of time with Kim Cofino and her instructional coaching team at Eduro Learning. Not in person – Kim is in Bangkok, Thailand, and her team is all over the globe – but online. Lately I have been leaning into the task of enhancing my instructional coaching knowledge and skillsets, so I signed up for Eduro Learning’s yearlong online course

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

By now you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT. It’s a free AI chatbot that can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. Unlike a Google search, the new tool can deliver full paragraphs of information, and it does so in a way that seems like the AI is having a conversation with you. This chatbot was released in late November, but it’s already sparking an existential crisis for educators at all levels.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 4, 2023

The post How to Spark Student Agency in the Classroom Through Community Connections appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

WARWICK, R.I. — Anne-Marie Jean-Louis is just getting started toward her bachelor’s degree in biology with the goal of eventually getting a graduate degree in neuroscience. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. That’s a long slog in the best of circumstances. And Jean-Louis is starting out at a community college with plans to transfer to a four-year university, making it likely to take even longer.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

You have to see it to be it, the saying goes. Students have to know a job exists before they can ever become interested in it. The Indiana Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs is embracing a modern twist on the philosophy by rolling out a virtual reality career exploration program to sites across the state. It’s an education tool that feels like a game to the kids who use it, Executive Director Lana Taylor says, and it has helped clubs reconnect with teens who fell off their radar during the first

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Edthena

JANUARY 6, 2023

Supporting teachers’ professional development and classroom effectiveness is directly connected to positive student outcomes. And instructional coaching is key to teacher growth. According to author of multiple coaching books, Christian van Nieuwerburgh, “Coaching is about creating ideal environments in which good learning can take place.”. But how do instructional coaches create that learning environment for teachers?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2023

From the man behind an audacious scam to manipulate who gets into elite colleges, we now have a very public acknowledgment about how admissions decisions really work – and the role money and connections play. This time, the admission comes with a prison sentence. “The fraudulent testing scheme, bribing of university officials, lying on students’ applications and profiles, I did all of it,” William “Rick” Singer, the man at the center of the nationwide cheating scandal known as Varsity Blues , ac

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Transcending Pedagogy

JANUARY 5, 2023

I’ve been home again with Covid this week. It’s my second go with it, this one timed with the start of the calendar year, extending my winter break from teaching. Sort of. If you’re a teacher, you know that taking days off rarely means not teaching in some fashion. Whether it’s creating plans, responding to emails, reading student work, or contemplating how to rearrange your curriculum and calendar around lackluster student engagement days, there’s rarely a time whe

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

More than 50 years after Don Rawitsch introduced Oregon Trail in his eighth grade class, the debate continues : Can games become a legitimate tool for learning? Proponents of game-based learning have good reason to be optimistic—but also cautious. Proponents of game-based learning have good reason to be optimistic—but also cautious. Tailwinds: An Enabling Ecosystem A baseline enabling condition for game-based learning is access to computers and broadband.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. Montessori originally developed her method for helping children learn Italian, a completely phonetic language. But it was Muriel Dwyer who used that method to tackle the complexities of partially-phonetic languages like English and Swahili. Muriel Dwyer was a brilliant AMI Teacher Trainer who worked extensively in both London and Africa (in the Swahili language).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Throughout the pandemic, America’s educators have shouldered challenges once thought unimaginable — from public health crises to the unprecedented shift to remote learning. Not surprisingly, a concerning number of educators have grown dissatisfied with their jobs and are eyeing exits. In 2020, 24 percent of teachers were considering leaving their current state or the profession within five years; a year later, that number had grown to 30 percent, a Brookings Institution report found.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

It's the year 2023, and teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. If you have been in the classroom the past few years, you know just how rough it has been. Between the students, administrators, parents, and the community, social studies teachers are feeling pressure from all directions. There are, however, a few exciting trends, techniques, and resources that can help social studies teachers provide our students with the most engaging and effective lessons possible.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.” Over the past two years, most of us have lost the certainty in everyday life that we once knew and perhaps took for granted. In addition to the loss of certainty and routine, many of us have experienced loss in our personal and professional lives.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dr. Montessori originally developed her method for helping children learn Italian, a completely phonetic language. But it was Muriel Dwyer who used that method to tackle the complexities of partially-phonetic languages like English and Swahili. Muriel Dwyer was a brilliant AMI Teacher Trainer who worked extensively in both London and Africa (in the Swahili language).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

I was recently teaching my eighth grade science class a lesson on volcanoes, and we got to talking about Mount Vesuvius when one of my students shot her hand up in the air and said, “Mr. Pope, I used to live near there. I went all the time.”. I smiled. It wasn’t an unusual occurrence among my class of adolescent world travelers. I teach at Zama American Middle-High School , a Department of Defense school in Kanagawa, Japan.

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Rockin Resources - Social Studies

JANUARY 2, 2023

WOW! A lot has happened in our American History! There’s so much to cover in each era! With such a large amount of content, it can be overwhelming and let’s be honest…boring! That is why I’m breaking down the best (and easiest) way to teach American History! I’ve put together several comprehensive social studies units. The post The Best (and Easiest) Way to Teach American History appeared first on Rockin Resources.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we march forward into a new year, EdSurge is reflecting on the stories we shared and the biggest hits of 2022. We published numerous stories about the plight of teachers today, including investigations into the experiences of educators whose mental health concerns are pushing them out of the profession and the lives of teachers who work multiple jobs to cover their basic needs.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 3, 2023

Teaching a child how to use a new material or do a new activity is a sacred event. We treat it like a tea ceremony that includes precise steps to follow at the beginning, in the middle, and in the end. While each activity has it's own precise presentation, the general way we introduce and complete lessons is fairly consistent for everything we do in early childhood.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2023

All last year, you read, and we tallied. Now we’re ready to reveal the top higher education stories that EdSurge published in 2022, based on their popularity with you, our readers. We’ll do this countdown style, starting with number 10 and working our way to the top article of the year. As these headlines reflect, the last 12 months brought uncertainty, speculation and innovation to higher education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.” The COVID pandemic has brought a rush of new people interested in building tools and businesses to help improve education. And today’s tech environment, with easy-to-use tools and social media, makes it easier than ever for entrants to reach global learners and sell their products or services, so that anyone with a good idea and a laptop can get started virtually overnight

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

Listeners to the EdSurge Podcast like to learn about brains—and what research shows can best reach and teach them. Our two most popular episodes of 2022 addressed just that subject, exploring fresh findings in learning science and how educators can apply them. Every January we look back at what listeners responded to the most in the past 12 months, and below we count down the top 10.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 3, 2023

Teaching a child how to use a new material or do a new activity is a sacred event. We treat it like a tea ceremony that includes precise steps to follow at the beginning, in the middle, and in the end. While each activity has it's own precise presentation, the general way we introduce and complete lessons is fairly consistent for everything we do in early childhood.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. Buoyed by appointments from Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin—who made wading into education fights a staple of his campaign—the board scalpelled out many of the proposed revisions that had been intended to create more diverse representation in lessons in Virginia schools.

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