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How to Make Learning Stick

A Principal's Reflections

It is no secret how we retain information, construct new knowledge, and develop competencies critical for success in the world of work and, more importantly, life. The key is to not only rely on this teaching technique as it mainly focuses on providing information and modeling as opposed to active learning. Fiorella, L. & Jeong, H.

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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought

In a short answer, the responder must answer the prompt without the benefit of any additional information or possible answers. Then there are Referential Questions : An inherently subjective question, Referential Questions produce new information and can be either open or closed-ended questions. What crucial information are we missing?

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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought

Keywords: socioeconomic status, informer choice, late-emerging reading development, standardized testings, student attainment, service-learning How Socioeconomic Status Influences Learning At the beginning of the school year, teachers are made aware of characteristics of their students in order to create accommodations.

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Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

Cult of Pedagogy

” Principle 2: Protect Privacy and Confidentiality “All information related to a student’s sexual orientation and gender identity should be treated like private medical data,” Edwards says. “When a student changes their name and pronouns,” he offers, “who should be informed? .

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Are We Assessing What Really Matters in Education?

ED Surge

The resulting insights can then be shared with all actors — instructors, mentors and learners — enabling them to make informed decisions about the learner’s next steps toward their goal. Other sectors’ assessment practices can inform new approaches in education. As technology improves, we’ll be flooded with classroom information.

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Designing For Deeper Learning: Identifying Challenges and Prototyping Solutions

Catlin Tucker

Traditional whole-group instruction can make it challenging to meet the goals of UDL, as the one-size-fits-all approach may not be suitable for all learners. However, many traditional classrooms do not reflect this reality, providing limited opportunities for authentic and meaningful engagement with the subject matter or other students.

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Ethnography and Ethnology

Anthropology for Beginners

Robert Henry Codrington's The Melanesians (1891) and Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen's The native tribes of central Australia (1899) exemplify this new, theoretically informed style of extended firsthand observation. Roughly the ethnographic approaches can be divided into the following traditions.