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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

While skills like collaboration, effective communication, and critical thinking are valuable, it’s hard not to wonder what happens to content areas like history and algebra do these just go away? Students start by forming a psychological hypothesis about a character for example, Is Hamlet experiencing depression?

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

ED Surge

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. In the U.S.

Education 142
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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. But he does work in a library. What is happening?’”

Library 113
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Teachers, how does it feel to be an oppressor?

The Hechinger Report

The New York Daily News reported on February 1 — the start of Black History Month — that a teacher in a majority-minority school in the Bronx, NY, instructed three black children in her seventh-grade class to lie on the floor during a lesson on slavery. Related: When black history isn’t relegated to a single month.

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Ethnography and Ethnology

Anthropology for Beginners

In much psychological interviewing, there is in fact an effort to minimize the effects of the setting and to make sure the social identity and opinions of the interviewer are obscured, so as to encourage responses that are as little affected by external conditions as possible.

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3 Tips to Blend Paper and Digital for Meaningful Lessons

Leah Cleary

I’ve also got four preps, AP World History, Sociology, Psychology, and IB Theory of Knowledge. Some of these templates are available in my Free Resource Library. Economics and World History are fully structured this way. At the start of this school year, I was still assigning everything digitally.