Becoming a History Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Understanding Seb’s choices One of the hardest things for beginning teachers to grasp is that teaching is about a lot more than designing activities which will engage/ enthuse/ occupy the pupils for the lesson. All too often beginning teachers are attracted to the pedagogy as an end itself, rather than as the vehicle to that end.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In the schools I have the honor of coaching in, I see more and more evidence of co-planning and sharing of resources both within the school and across the district as a means to lessen the load. I am all for teachers selling lesson plans, assessments, support materials, and other resources to their peers. Now here comes the rub.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. When it came to the lesson plan piece, many of my colleagues and I in the Northeastern United States were educated in the Instructional Theory Into Practice Model (ITIP) developed by Madeline Hunter.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

There is a great deal of talk these days about micro-credentials and digital badging as a means to acknowledge professional learning of educators. Acknowledging the informal learning of educators had been a long- neglected area in schools, and Ms. Micro-credentials can be used to guide, motivate, and validate informal learning.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Since I was fortunate enough to have a week-long spring break before school resumed, I decided to try a new approach in my lesson planning and utilize student feedback to develop a thoughtful, interactive, and critical unit on environmental justice.

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ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Early literacy often dominates conversations around foundational learning in todays educational system. This highlights the necessity of integrating robust numeracy programs into early education frameworks to give students a head start. Teacher training is another cornerstone of effective numeracy instruction.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

For every lesson plan I toiled over while teaching English as a New Language for 16 years in New York City and Tucson high schools, there were at least 15–20 adjustments made as I enacted that lesson plan with real people in real time. Yet, it is a challenge that can be overcome, and educators themselves can lead the way.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

MagicSchool offers more than 50 different AI-assisted tools to help speed up so many of the teaching tasks that take so much time: lesson planning, assessment building, feedback, communication with parents, even an IEP generator. Take a look at Upschool, whose mission is to “change the world through purposeful education.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

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. When Kaler-Jones taught dance, her students didn’t come just for the dance lessons. Subscribe today!

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Global Head of Education Learning and Advocacy at Adobe The past two years have witnessed a notable surge in the use of artificial intelligence within education, marked by increased investment, deployment and integration into various educational practices. That end-to-end process is creative thinking.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Like many educators who saw the early pandemic fallout, administrators in my school knew that we had to respond to students’ needs as they faced increased isolation and unprecedented stress levels. This change might be attributed to so many factors– perhaps the turbulence of adolescence or the ongoing trauma of the pandemic.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It was fulfilling to come up with educational activities and to see the impact it had on the children I worked with. And as I learned more about educational inequality, I wanted to help however I could. My master’s degree in education through a social justice graduate program radically changed how I approached teaching.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. It’s pretty well known in educational circles that cooperative learning is supported by research, but so many teachers still struggle with it, so when things don’t work well, they give it up.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Skills for Innovation framework (image credit: Intel) The Skills for Innovation program provides Starter Pack lesson plans and professional learning resources that connect real-world problem-solving and 21st-century learning with core disciplines.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Lesson planning : Do they come up with interesting activities to teach their content? And in education, we like fast and free. The post Your Teachers Need a Win first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. Do you notice them modeling behaviors that students might emulate? Do they ask challenging questions? The giver gets one too.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. While 21st-century pedagogy puts group projects and collaborative learning at center stage for students, these cooperative habits have not yet assumed such a prominent role for teachers. Read the original version here. Frequent feedback.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2018

In a recent article , Emily Hanford reported that many educators rely on ineffective means of teaching students to read and ignore substantial research that demonstrates better outcomes from phonics instruction than from the whole language approach. Indeed, there are a variety of approaches used to teach early reading development.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Thirty-plus teachers and teacher educators gathered in the conference room nodded emphatically as Eckhoff, 35, told of seeing more and more students coming to school not just deficient in academic skills, but carrying a lot of emotional baggage. In Louisiana, we’re building and strengthening the role of those veteran expert educators.”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

The introduction of generative AI into society shines a bright spotlight on these educators. Soon, they will have to understand it, regulate its use and also implement it in their own pedagogy. So education leaders are investing in new training and professional development for teachers on the best use cases for AI.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As a junior in college, TFA’s "mission” of ending educational inequity appealed to students like myself: hardworking and passionate about the intersection of social justice and education. The Teach for America mindset is that a two-year commitment is enough to take a bite out of systemic inequities in education.

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Becoming a History Teacher

MARCH 11, 2025

Pace targets relating to the balance of abstract and conceptual thinking can be supported by: mentors undertaking a whispered observation with their mentee (or observing a filmed lesson together) drawing their attention to the way the teacher varies the pace of the lesson as they move between abstract and concrete activity phases.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Educator preparation is moving in this direction and taking a major step to becoming a profession governed by agreed upon standards that are both enforced and regulated by a system of assessment that is reliable and valid. It focuses on lesson planning, instruction, assessment and academic language – all in support of student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

“You have to think that you’re not dividing up the cookies, you are seeing how many times ¼ can fit into 12,” explained Juli Dixon, professor of mathematics education at the University of Central Florida. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S. Deborah Ball, dean University of Michigan School of Education.

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Achieve the Core

JULY 7, 2023

As educators, it is easy to spend most of our day putting out little fires. More time to plan, more time to research, more time to teach, more time to connect, more time to assess, and more time to engage. Structures also help facilitate effective lesson planning and instruction. We are constantly in need of more time.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The tools educators can use to guide viewing of instructional practice videos are called Focusing Techniques, and they are synthesized from research on teacher learning, self-reflection, and accelerated improvement. The Spot technique encourages educators to notice significant details within a larger context.

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Transcending Pedagogy

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Then he asked it to write a lesson plan helping high school students work on the concept of theme. And I’m not even talking about how many folks are foretelling this AI technology to bring on the end of the work of educators and many others. The post Dystopian Daymares appeared first on Transcending Pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Beth Rabbitt, CEO of education nonprofit The Learning Accelerator. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. We know how education reform is. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Education professor Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop famously described it this way: “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

percent decline in the grade 2 math skills it was trying to improve, having omitted to train educators on how to use the new resources effectively. Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds. Choose as many as you like.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

This past year was eventful in education – we saw new measures to connect schools around the country , concepts like maker spaces, design thinking, and coding make their way into the mainstream, and teachers become more tech-savvy and connected. Looking to 2015, what will the new year bring for the future of education?

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

Educators play a vital role in shaping meaningful and impactful learning opportunities for students through emerging technologies like AI. These schools are working to equip educators and students with essential skills to harness the power of AI in an increasingly modern technological world.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The idea of being bad at math or not a math person is deeply entrenched in American education for students and teachers alike. While I was teaching seventh grade math, my principal introduced me to a professional learning company for educators, and we attended training from that company to learn more about intervention in the classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 19, 2016

In my mind, pedagogy trumps technology and the importance of instructional design cannot be overstated. I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. Find the right educational tools for your needs. There is also an option to search teacher-created lesson plans.

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All Things Pedagogical

JANUARY 5, 2025

When one is early in their career there is this push to have the totality of the course mapped out, all 15 weeks, with shiny slide decks, links and lesson plans, and complete assignment instructions and rubrics done before the first day of class. This seems like a way to prevent something one may have not expected to happen.

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