Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally. Watching these moments in the field school was eye-opening and convinced us that teaching isn’t just about sharing knowledge; it’s also about keeping our own love for learning alive. Orchard at its core.

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Archaeology Teaching Artifacts Anthropology 246

Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions of their lives. The challenge with teaching these skills, however, is time. In the middle is teaching a lesson however you might normally do it.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

“Constructive dialogue” has become a buzzword in higher education in recent years, especially since protests over the Israel-Hamas war have shaken campuses across the country. Many even created special offices or programs in the hopes of teaching students how to talk with people they may disagree with.

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Teaching Civics Cultures Education 135

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fear of retribution for teaching the truth has created such a chilling effect that an astounding two-thirds of U.S. But there is another story about teachers buried beneath the headlines of doom and despair that must be told to fully understand this era of education; this is a story about solidarity, community, hope and resistance.

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Teaching History Education 116

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

Credit: Getty images A prominent professor of special education is about to ignite a fierce debate over a tenet of his field, that students with disabilities should be educated as much as possible alongside their peers in general education classrooms, a strategy known as inclusion. The evidence is, I dare say, overwhelming.

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Education Psychology Research Government 145

TeachThought

JULY 18, 2024

A few thoughts– Teaching is a lot work. This has always been true but, for many educators, it’s gone from exhausting to unsustainable. So much goes into teaching, and so describe the profession as an exhausting slog that is barely endurable by the end of the year is a magnificent over-generalization and probably disillusioned.

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Teaching Classroom Management Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan 293

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Our approach to teaching data science and data literacy has hardly evolved since I started my teaching career in 1995. With data talent in high demand globally, other countries are investing billions in data education. Related: Do we need a ‘Common Core’ for data science education?

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K-12 Teaching Social Studies High School 141

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Nurturing Environments Conducive to Learning To maximize the benefits of student discourse through turn & talk or think-pair-share, educators must create a supportive classroom culture that encourages open dialogue and critical thinking. Learner-centered teaching: Five key changes to practice. National Academies Press.

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Critical Thinking Cultures Teaching Research 424

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2024

More than 7 million students nationwide are entitled to special education services in K-12 schools. In most states, graduation rates for students with disabilities are lower than their peers and the quality of the education they receive varies greatly. Are there ways you believe students in special education arent being served?

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Education K-12 Teaching High School 137

TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). Teaching AI theory, for example, is well beyond these ideas. How you teach something depends, obviously, on what you’re teaching. Let’s take a look.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But a growing chorus of education advocates has been arguing that phonics isnt enough. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there.

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Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 141

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The event attracted educators from across the country and around the world. However, what I experienced was far different and far better: It put people at the center of the technology and helped me expand my views on how technology can and should be used in school settings as a tool for education and not as a replacement or goal of education.

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Education EdTech Humanities Critical Thinking 148

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

How Certain Words Change How Children Feel by Terry Heick While I often talk about ‘scale’ as one of the primary challenges in education –and have also wondered about curriculum , too–a more subversive concept constantly at play throughout education is tone. To have the desired effect (i.e.,

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Teaching Critical Thinking Education 321

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Assessments have the power to shape educational outcomes, but are we truly measuring what matters? Ensuring that assessments are fair, inclusive and meaningful for all students is a growing priority for educators. Candace Thille Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education Students must know what is being assessed.

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Education Professional Development Humanities Psychology 125

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

What Is The Most Dangerous Phrase In Education? But it’s also one of the most dangerous phrases we can use—and this danger extends to education, as well. I talk a lot about disruptive teaching and paradigm shifting in teaching and learning not because I’m inherently rebellious, or some kind of academic anarchist.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Education is no exception. Students are ready for AI, and its time for higher education to foster open discussions on how to integrate AI meaningfully in learning and instruction. Education leaders and faculty recognize the value of AI in idea generation and developing personalized learning.

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Education Interactive Learning Educational Technology Teaching 96

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fear of retribution for teaching the truth has created such a chilling effect that an astounding two-thirds of U.S. But there is another story about teachers buried beneath the headlines of doom and despair that must be told to fully understand this era of education; this is a story about solidarity, community, hope and resistance.

Teaching 98

Teaching History Education 98

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2025

Lawmakers are trying to restrict teaching honestly about U.S. Help us defend teachers right to teach peoples history. The Zinn Education Project is one of CREDOs grant recipients for the month of January. CREDO funding also allows us to defend the right to teach honestly in the face of anti-history education laws.

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History Teaching History Education Education 98

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

In a survey of more than 1,000 public school teachers done through Samsungs partners at DonorsChoose a whopping 96 percent said AI will become an intrinsic part of education within the next decade. They can start with mastering spreadsheets, coding languages like Python or teaching students to use AI chatbots.

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K-12 Education EdTech Lesson Plan 138

NCHE

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

“It came about because I wanted the best for my daughters, and especially being Black, being in the area that we are in, me being a Baby Boomer, it was drilled into me that education was the thing that was going to make your life better.” Valencia passed that drive for education on to her daughters. “It And it was just September!”

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Museum Lesson Plan History High School 317

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Don’t Use Physical Education As Punishment contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for their errors that day?

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Education Elementary School Psychology Classroom Management 300

TeachThought

AUGUST 1, 2024

For too long, students with learning disabilities have struggled to navigate a traditional education system that often fails to meet their unique needs. The Promise of Personalized Learning: Tailoring Education to Individual Needs At the heart of AI’s potential in special education lies its remarkable ability to personalize learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Theres no getting around it it takes work to teach students how to write. Tim Donahue teaches high school English at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut. This story about AI and student writing was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Teaching High School Education 112

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school. Our principal recruits and advertises open teaching positions only to receive zero applications most of the time.

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Education Professional Development Charter School Lesson Plan 92

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

That happened after a January column I wrote about a prominent scholars critique of the evidence for including children with disabilities in general education classrooms. The director of education at the Learning Disabilities Association of America weighed in, as did the commissioner of special education research at the U.S.

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Research Education Psychology Human Rights 131

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 2, 2025

educators should prompt students with "why did this happen?" It should be a tool that empowers students to explore, create, and connect, not simply a replacement for traditional teaching methods. Future-proofing learning requires a fundamental shift in our approach to education. Instead of asking "what happened?", Barron, B., &

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Critical Thinking Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Tradition 380

ED Surge

APRIL 9, 2025

Many educators have begun exploring these tools to streamline administrative tasks from composing parent emails to analyzing assessment data and differentiating instruction. Yet, some educators still see AI only as a tool for efficiency and view student use as cheating. But we must also address teacher readiness to succeed.

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Education Professional Development Tutoring Teaching 85

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In my career as an arts educator and school administrator, I have met countless families whose children are excited to embark on a college education focused on filmmaking or acting. Given the financial realities regularly confronted by the arts and the high cost of postsecondary education, a bit of hesitation may be natural.

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Education Economics Tradition Humanities 123

ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Back then, remember your why felt like a genuine invitation to reconnect with the passion that first brought me to teaching; this made it easy to hold on to purpose and to find meaning in the day-to-day connections and small victories. Together, their legacies have shaped my teaching practice.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

Looking back on my educational journey, I recently reflected on my classroom experiences from kindergarten to fourth grade. The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program.

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Education Advocacy Middle School Cultures 93

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. I'm an educator.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

So, what does this mean for educators? It is not a substitute for teaching and leading but an on-demand support that can help save time and maximize your impact. In the creative industries, AI can generate ideas, design products, and compose music, inspiring human creativity and innovation.

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Leadership Humanities High School Research 426

NCHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Im reaching out today as a fellow educator and historian, and as Executive Director of the National Council for History Education, to affirm your professionalism and the importance of your role as history educators. NCHE will remain a place of support for you as you seek to teach accurate, inclusive, complex histories.

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Primary Sources History Education History Library 230

Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Listen to my interview with Blake Harvard ( transcript ): Sponsored by Boclips Classroom and Brisk Teaching This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. Sometimes its the smallest details that separate effective teaching from teaching that misses the mark. Today we’re going to look at three of these.

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Pedagogy Psychology Library Teaching 238

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

These unprecedented and uncertain times have spawned a paradigm shift in the way teaching and learning are conducted. It is necessary for schools and districts to prepare for quick and seamless direction changes so teaching and learning continuity is maintained.

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EdTech Teaching Education 545

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Throughout the pandemic, educators have embraced new opportunities that have materialized and taken advantage of a clean slate. Below I will address six specific areas that can help to create an empathetic teaching and learning culture. However, this is not all doom and gloom. Even though they are similar, there is a difference.

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