A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 13, 2023
Everyone loves a great story. We spend countless hours visualizing how they unfold when reading and watching them come to life through our device of choice. It comes as no surprise that civilizations across the globe have been curating and sharing them since the beginning of time. From cave paintings, stone carvings, and ancient papyrus paper, the most significant stories of our past have been preserved.
Active History Teacher
MARCH 16, 2023
Have you ever assigned a decades project for your US History class? It’s the end of the year. You’ve finished your US History curriculum and need something engaging for students to go as an end of the year project? It’s time to try a US History end of the year decades project! Are you like me? It’s May and standardized testing season is over.
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ED Surge
MARCH 16, 2023
When a Texas task force set out to draft a plan for attracting and keeping more teachers in the state’s schools, it ran into its first problem before work ever began. The group initially was composed of school district leaders and had no more than one teacher, recalls Zeph Capo, president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers. That didn’t sit well with him or members of the Texas AFT.
A Psychology Teacher Writes
MARCH 17, 2023
I write this after another busy Year 13 post-mock exam parents evening. I’m reflecting on the extent to which I just sound like a broken record, saying the same things, again, to pretty much every student, for what feels like the umpteenth time. But it’s also made me reflect on something that has changed this year, and how I went from just telling to doing.
History Tech
MARCH 15, 2023
I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of people who work at the Library of Congress. And they’ve all been awesome. I’m sure there’s probably one or two who work over there who are Las Vegas Raiders fans or who will tell you that they don’t like Kansas City Joe’s burnt ends.
Active History Teacher
MARCH 15, 2023
Hexagonal Thinking is a game changing activity when it comes to US History Review time! If you are looking for a way to have your students make connections between concepts in US History and think critically in a hands-on, active way, it’s time to try Hexagonal Thinking! Have you been there? You’ve taught quite a bit of content to your students. You look out and wonder, “are they getting it?
ED Surge
MARCH 15, 2023
Today’s high school graduates are increasingly questioning whether higher education is worth it, and that’s pushing colleges to rethink the value they bring students. This was a key theme I heard at last week’s SXSW EDU conference, where several panels addressed what today’s generation of students want, and how colleges can respond. It was also a top-of-mind issue for me coming into the conference.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 13, 2023
Like many states with a large number of rural schools, Wyoming desperately needs more teachers. Take the case of the Teton County School District, in Jackson, Wyoming. Located near Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, the area is well known as a vacation spot. Despite the alluring landscape, for full-time residents the extremely high housing costs are daunting.
Digital Promise
MARCH 15, 2023
The post Five Tips for Creating an Effective Asynchronous Learning Environment appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
MARCH 14, 2023
Several years ago, when Rachel S. White was compiling a list of every public school district superintendent in the country, she began to notice something peculiar. As she flitted from one district website to the next, manually — and painstakingly — entering each superintendent’s first and last name into her database, White saw a pattern emerging. “There were a lot of Marks and Scotts and Daves,” she says.
Edthena
MARCH 14, 2023
Whether you’re an instructional coach, school leader, or a fellow educator down the hall, supporting teachers effectively can be difficult. From struggling with being a new teacher to feeling afraid to take risks, successful teaching in the classroom is often hindered by burnout. But that is why supporting teachers is more important than ever. We’ve rounded up the top recent reads and resources about supporting teachers and have the highlights you need to better help teachers do their best teach
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 14, 2023
A recent troubling report from the University of Georgia confirms fears of school district leaders nationwide: Nearly one-third of educators are unlikely to remain in education for another five years. There’s a good reason: With an anemic post-pandemic pipeline for teacher talent, educators are being asked to take on more or larger classes alongside the Herculean challenges of lost instructional time and a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health.
Geography Teacher Sharing
MARCH 13, 2023
Decided to carry out an inquiry-based learning on Geographical Methods under the topic Geography in Everyday Life in the new Upper Sec Geography syllabus. We had always been using the inquiry-based learning in our Geographical Investigation. As we have completed the part on how nature benefitted people by lowering ambient temperatures via evapotranspiration and shade, I wanted to sparkle their curiosity on whether vegetation and shade has an impact on temperatures within the school compound.
ED Surge
MARCH 15, 2023
One of my rituals at the start of each school year is to clean student desks and chairs. Year after year, before students arrive for their first day of school, I scrub and shine these desks. My hands, raw from cleaner, fail to remove remnants of short-lived romances tattooed into the laminate. Profanity from past students lives on in the rubber sidings of these desks.
ED Surge
MARCH 14, 2023
Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights? To find out, last week we gathered a panel of experts at the intersection of brain research and teaching practice to hear their latest thinking for a live taping of the EdSurge Podcast.
ED Surge
MARCH 13, 2023
How can teachers engage students to learn problem-solving skills across the curriculum? One program has set out to teach computational thinking (CT) and coding skills in a problem-centered approach, fostering a student-driven learning design. In the process, students develop persistence and creativity while teachers connect their learning with professional standards aligned with ISTE micro-credentials.
ED Surge
MARCH 13, 2023
The original version of this essay was published by the TRiiBE. In my 16 years teaching in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I have lost more students than years I have taught. During my teacher preparation in college, I had fears about how to create engaging lesson plans, how to make connections with students and how to help students who needed more support.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 13, 2023
Last fall, U.S. college enrollment fell for the third straight year , part of a significant and steady drop of nearly one million students since the start of the pandemic. At the same time, employers, including higher education institutions, have been grappling with intense staff shortages. We are overlooking a segment of potential students and workers who could help address both challenges: immigrants and refugees.
Geography Teacher Sharing
MARCH 13, 2023
Play-based Learning provides opportunities for students to develop a sense of the world around them through inquiry, exploration, interaction and problem solving. As they explore their environment and connect what they already know with new knowledge, perspectives and skills. In my earlier post on inquiry-based learning, there was element of play-based learning.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 13, 2023
After a year of short-burst tutoring, more than double the number of kindergarteners hit an important reading milestone. Researchers are tracking the children to see if the gains from this cheaper and quicker version of high-dosage tutoring are long lasting and lead to more third graders becoming proficient readers. Credit: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson Education researchers have been urging schools to invest their $120 billion in federal pandemic recovery funds in tutoring.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 17, 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. Subscribe today! In the winter of 2019, a group of college faculty members, education consultants and government employees from the Department of Education and the National Security Agency were discussing how to address a talent gap in cybersecurity — there were more 300,000 job openi
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