The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

In September 2019, I wrote about a review of the research on how to teach critical thinking by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham. A large study on teaching science to middle school students was published afterwards and it adds more nuance to this debate between critical thinking skills and content knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Efforts like these are part of an instructional approach known as the “campus as a living lab,” in which classroom teaching mixes with on-the-ground efforts to decarbonize campuses. The post Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

The article notes that Dr. Fuchs is concentrating on academic outcomes and acknowledges that inclusion may have psychological or social benefits that were [not] studied. Social or psychological benefitslike peer interaction, belonging, and reduced isolationarent incidental to learning/academic achievement. She posted this on X.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. government as well.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Schools brag that they teach it on their websites and in open houses to impress parents. But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. And all three have been working with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. Teaching is inherently activist. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

While many students are misinformed about the coronavirus and ill-equipped to respond, we find ourselves with an opportunity in which we can teach students to respond to a dire global issue with grace and empathy. Fourth, weave history into your curriculum. But t he incident brings important matters to light. First, do your research.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. And people have that history in their awareness and the fight that their communities have engaged in to be able to access education.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This week the annual Scottish Learning Festival took place in Glasgow, and together with five fellow educators I gave a presentation on the value of psychology to younger learners. 1) The study of Psychology is a basic part of understanding reality. 2) Psychology is interesting and motivating. We can do better for our learners.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Florida is doing its best to tilt the scales and shut down important, much-needed discussions of race, slavery, stolen lands, and undeniable history that have led us to where we are as a society today.” He added a dire warning: “What just happened in Florida … is coming your way. are systemic. There’s nothing objectional.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

About 37 percent of faculty teaching introductory courses said that they used courseware in 2022, according to the Tyton Partners study of 850 administrators and 3,200 faculty at 1,200 colleges. history surveys. Leaders of the project aim to evaluate products twice a year and then update the site accordingly.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension. Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

The pandemic forced school systems across the world to move to virtual platforms for teaching and learning. Grades are too often used as weapons that can create psychological and emotional harm to young people whose experiences, cultural practices and behaviors are incompatible with their schools and educators.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The situation is particularly troubling in graduate education, where the lack of diversity is largely influenced by the history of deficient K-16 institutional support for underrepresented and minority groups, and consistently low levels of diversity among faculty members. Among the most important issues in U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

We’ve been dreaming in the field of education that people could have their own individual tutors to help them learn,” says Mayer, who is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, noting that ChatGPT has renewed this push. “So Is Authenticity Essential? Students can clue into the authenticity of teachers.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

history has resulted in persistent unequal access to opportunity. Research in psychology suggests that, though some programs demonstrate promise in changing individuals’ unconscious cognition, the impacts of these programs are small, do not necessarily persist over time and seldomly lead to shifts in behaviors.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. She turns on gospel music — a ritual she’s had since she began teaching 28 years ago — and sanitizes all surfaces. Related: Teaching among the ashes: ‘It’s not just your house that’s burned, it’s everyone’s’.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2016

Developed by University of Texas-Austin psychology professor David Yeager, purpose for learning teaches students to learn with the goal of making a broader, positive impact on the world. Grit: A Short History of a Useful Concept. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(4), 559. What is Purpose for Learning?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. To me, that's a problem from a pedagogical perspective.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Many teachers were not motivated to teach the young people, and they felt like the students were not being respectful toward them.”. Early in fall 2020, Hidalgo and her husband scoured the internet for curriculum and lesson plans that they could use at home to teach their kids. The Siddiquis. Fatima Siddiqui, homeschooler.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

Most of us can remember a moment like this from our school years: the teacher poses a question – maybe it’s math, maybe history. And many important findings that are relevant to teaching are not making it into the classroom, or penetrating very slowly. You can see her method in an online Teaching Channel video. You’re shot down.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

26, 2019 in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, looked at what happened when researchers randomly gave fidget spinners to college students and had them watch educational videos in a laboratory setting at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Teaching them to build their attention spans and focus is much harder.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

— When Sandra Jenkins started teaching at Betty H. Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. And yet, few districts have achieved the goal of building a teaching workforce that looks like its students. PHOENIX, Ariz. He’s listening to us.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

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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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. To that end, Brookdale offers college readiness courses to its high school students who participate in dual enrollment programs, designed to teach them skills they need to succeed in advanced classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Mingus Union reinforces an aspect of American culture that has educators believing they can teach students by punishing and shaming them. Shaming is the worst method of teaching, because it manipulates kids’ fear of alienation and stigma. Batcho in a Psychology Today article last year. Shaming something away isn’t teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. Teaching was not my initial goal. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. This year there may be as few as 19.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

There is a long history of research looking into the importance of spoken language as foundational for learning to read and write. If they love trucks and cars, teach them the names of every truck and car you see. In everything we do, we want to focus like a flashlight in a dark room on exactly what we are teaching. Make sense?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

According to a 2006 report by the American Psychological Association, “mentored individuals often earn higher performance evaluations, higher salaries, and faster career progress than non-mentored individuals.” Work-based learning is an instructional approach to classroom teaching that connects it to the workplace.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2019

As teachers return to the start of school following summer break, I hope they will take some time to reflect on ways to effectively communicate and partner with the families of the students they teach. His research, teaching and policy interests include urban education, teacher education and the social context of education.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

We’re teaching them about investing for even greater payoffs down the line.”. And even if young men resolve to go to college later, he said, history shows that “their chances of actually coming back to higher ed are probably slim to none.”. “It’s a little bit different for girls. This has only been exacerbated by Covid-19. “It

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. For multiage classrooms to work, schools need to set their curriculums and teaching schedules differently.

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