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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

Anthropology News

As requested by the local Tibetan community, a linguistic anthropologist (Ward) and graduate student (Moli) adapted the Buddhist-inspired framework of SEE Learning to facilitate reflections on best practices in Tibetan heritage language education.

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How Belonging and Productive Struggle Can Motivate Students in Math

Digital Promise

Jamaal Matthews, a former math teacher turned researcher and professor at Montclair State University, recommends that teachers elicit information from their students on the “4 Hs” to build student-centered instruction: home, hobbies, hopes, and heritage.

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Supporting Intermediate English Learners in Every Subject

Cult of Pedagogy

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. and isn’t even fluent in their heritage language, this can be heartbreaking. The post Supporting Intermediate English Learners in Every Subject first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. You’re pulled out.

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Celebrating Black Joy

C3 Teachers

Almost ten years ago, I started off teaching and I truly believed that I didn’t need to teach Black History Month or any other cultural month (Hispanic Heritage, Native American History Month, etc.) Now, using inquiry, I celebrate each and every cultural heritage month, including Black History Month. for that matter.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. I learned how the absence of so many Igbo and Yoruba people felt for some growing up in West Africa under European reign.

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How our Students are Apprenticed into School Communities

Pedagogy and Formation

I talk about this in " Pedagogy and Education for Life " and and offer some examples of how this occurs in everyday school life. Rather we need to shape attitudes by creating frameworks for classroom life, that encourage and create predictable behaviour and outcomes [see Chapter 5 of ' Pedagogy and Education for Life ' for more details].

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Teacher licensing rules are one reason small schools don’t have enough teachers

The Hechinger Report

But as far as pedagogy, content knowledge, all of the things that will make them effective in a classroom, it’s left up to the district to determine what exactly those criteria will be to hire somebody on this [district]-specific license,” Jones continued.