A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

In studying various pieces of literature on the effect of design, Barrett and Zhang began with the understanding that a “bright, warm, quiet, safe, clean, comfortable, and healthy environment is an important component of successful teaching and learning” (p. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1362–1370. Godwin, K., & & Seltman, H.

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 25, 2024

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new IB Diploma psychology curriculum coming soon. All Year 1 Diploma psychology students will be studying it from September 2025. The new psychology guide won’t be published until Feb/March 2025, but teachers don’t need to wait till then to start preparing.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Recently, EdSurge webinar host Matthew Joseph discussed with education experts the need for assessments to measure what truly matters and power human progress. We must consider not just the learner but all human actors in the system and the decisions they need to make to support that learner’s journey.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In the previous post in this series I discussed how we can see public health strategies as “technologies” which reveal human health, life and behaviour in particular ways and act as tools for changing these. Psychoanalysis Some of the most important “technologies” of psychology were developed by Sigmund Freud.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Research in economics and psychology shows that these tests fail to measure key traits like perseverance, motivation and conscientiousness qualities that strongly predict long-term success. Effective teaching isnt about fidelity to a rigid curriculum its about fostering connection and allowing curiosity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

AP Psychology is a popular course, and rigorous AP classes help prepare students for college and demonstrate their skills for college admissions. The study of psychology is particularly important in this regard because it is a field led by women. I majored in psychology before forging a political career.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. When Marc Watkins heads back into the classroom this fall to teach a digital media studies course, he plans to make clear to students how he’s now using AI behind the scenes in preparing for classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Inclusion in the general education classroom is a human right Abby Taylor recently earned her doctorate in special education at Vanderbilt University, where Douglas Fuchs, the author of the controversial paper, is a professor. Ive never seen a properly implemented inclusion model in 22 years of teaching. Taylor emailed me.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. 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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. Typically, humans have an inclination toward safety and the predictability of routine, avoiding the uncertainty that comes with new terrain.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

It turns out that doing so will require a major reeducation effort for parents, students and teachers, argues Joshua Eyler, who has led teaching centers at several colleges, in a new book. But some teaching experts say tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true. I will never forget that moment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Photo: Amadou Diallo, for The Hechinger Report. REDMOND, Wash. —

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

If we can get a better understanding of how metacognition works, we can tap into it to improve our learning and teach our students to do the same. Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College. ” You can find more of Megan Sumeracki’s work at learningscientists.org.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

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. Such robust examples of teaching kids how to learn from their errors remain the exception in U.S. Some findings make intuitive sense. classrooms.

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The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

More concretely, if I ask students in my psychology course to describe one theory of motivation, will other theories of motivation also be strengthened in their memory? The more I learn about human memory processing and learning, the more Im not sure it is fair. Perspectives on psychological science, 1(3), 181-210.

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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. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. If we want them to learn and care about government, they need to DO government.

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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. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

High school students are also teenagers, though, and while they may be technologically savvy, they are often psychologically unsophisticated and eager to be part of a cause or group — making them easy marks for the purveyors of misinformation. Some of the Parkland survivors received death threats that cited such “news” stories.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion. It’s been difficult for the research community to prove that all of this student data actually improves teaching and helps students learn more.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The intention was to help administrators recognize what science of reading teaching looks like. The big takeaway is that the Science of Reading includes decades of research in literacy, education, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. It's not just about phonics, it's about honoring human development.

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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 24, 2022

What happens when you stop teaching young children via direct instruction and instead set up purposeful opportunities to play? Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. It’s teaching them more about how to collaborate and communicate,” she added.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That finding motivated Brown to ask more questions about play and its role in healthy human development. Doris Bergen, a professor at Miami University’s Department of Educational Psychology. Play is “not frivolous and not just for kids, but something that is an inherent part of human nature.”. Play is essential to education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It’s a scientific projection using data from employers and state agencies to help determine which subjects colleges should and shouldn’t teach and steer students to the highest-paying occupations that the state most needs to fill. Whether it’s a business wanting to grow or for a worker: These are the best choices you can make.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While the term has become the latest buzzword in education circles, what it means for teaching and learning largely remains to be seen. It would be a mistake from an education perspective, he said, to view the metaverse as all about virtual teaching or teaching in the virtual worlds.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. I had taken a couple of courses in anthropology and was excited by the fact that doing anthropology allowed me to engage in all of my interests: biology, conservation, ecology, and how humans fit in the world. I loved teaching there!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects. My next class was in the psychology department, on the topic of lifespan development. But experts who watch trends in teaching say that something is different now.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

Jennifer Greif Green, an associate professor in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University, said most of a child’s interactions with adults are with their parents and teachers, “so any disruption to that is really going to have an impact on that whole ecosystem and all those relationships.”. Not even close.”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master. As a result, teaching students how to read is a complex and challenging endeavor — that’s why it takes years.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Too few parents and teachers are talking about race, gender and other identity traits with children often enough, which means they are missing out on critical opportunities to teach children to become tolerant of differences from an early age. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points. Early Childhood.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

Educators have long debated the best way to teach, especially the subjects of science and math. The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. Different teaching methods may be better for different learning goals.

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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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