Ashleigh's Education Journey

MAY 15, 2015

These words are important because they help students comprehend text across different content areas such as social studies and science. The first step in planning academic vocabulary instruction is to create a list of academic vocabulary to be taught in social studies and science. Review shouldn’t be boring.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

If you want to dive deeper, download our free eBook, Rethinking Literacy in K-5 Classrooms: How Social Studies and Science Drive Academic Success. Scientific exploration encourages students to ask questions, analyze information, and make evidence-based conclusionsall of which are essential literacy skills.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Building a toolbox of teaching strategies can help educators meet the needs of students and bring social studies to life. This hands-on approach ensures that students are not just absorbing information but actively applying and exploring it, making subjects like social studies more meaningful and memorable.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Active learning is an instructional approach that encourages students to engage with content activelyanalyzing, questioning, and applying knowledge rather than passively receiving information. Application of Knowledge: Students connect new information to real-world situations and prior learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Despite the vast amount of information available at our fingertips, a staggering number of Americans struggle to grasp the fundamentals of our political system. After the No Child Left Behind Act, social studies and civics were sidelined in favor of reading and math.

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Civics Teaching K-12 Social Studies 126

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

Social studies was the class I excelled in because it felt most meaningful. are experts at filtering, organizing and connecting information. They are experts at filtering, organizing and connecting information. Cultural and social relevance. Related: Teachers go to school on racial bias.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Simulations have the opportunity to bring a historical topic to life in a way that more traditional activities cannot. Simulations can also present information in a new way that can be more exciting and engaging than traditional teaching methods.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It enables schools and districts to make informed decisions by ensuring diverse stakeholders are authentically engaged throughout the data cycle. We looked at it as an opportunity to hear from other districts and their journeys towards interoperability,” says Justin Hennes, the district’s senior information officer. “It

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Thrive in Grade Five

MAY 16, 2019

My History Book Clubs allow me to integrate social studies and reading in a powerful way. I absolutely teach my social studies curriculum chronologically but I like that a variety of topics are available during book clubs because my students’ interests and background knowledge vary.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

Instead of staying with the same two teachers in the same room for most of the day, students have one teacher for a combined science and math class and another for a humanities class that brings language arts and social studies together. You’re learning it more deeply because you’re actually the one finding information,” she said.

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HistoryRewriter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

See Chapter 15 in the Social Studies Edition. To recap, when I follow the traditional Retell in Rhyme EduProtocol, I use these steps. This lesson helps students determine the central ideas or information in a primary or secondary source. Our special guest will be Camarillo High School history teacher Mike Hernandez.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

I Used to Think…Now I Think…Thinking Routine The “I used to think…Now I think…” thinking routine helps students reflect on how they used to think about a topic, subject, or issue and how their thoughts have changed as a result of a learning experience or engagement with information (e.g.,

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Controversial Topics Critical Thinking Cultures Social Studies 131

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Civics Social Studies Critical Thinking History 88

Thrive in Grade Five

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Will the parents of your students be willing to provide hot entrees, sides, and desserts if you have a traditional feast? The Day Before: Inform the office if you will be expecting parent helpers during the feast, so that they will be prepared to direct them to your room. Or just be a snack?

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

We need to emphasize that Native American groups were (and are still) unique with distinct language, beliefs, traditions, and dress. When teaching about pre-Columbian or pre-contact cultures, be sure that students understand many of the tribes they are learning about have ancestors today who are still practicing their traditions.

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Digital Promise

MAY 26, 2017

When the bell rings, students rotate to a Reading and Social Studies class where another set of stages await them. They retain the information better than I have seen in years past. Championing Collaboration. The most recent challenge described above was centered around the video game Super Mario Brothers.

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Elementary School Social Studies Lesson Plan Tradition 91

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In the middle of all this activity, seventh-grader Jacob Higuera sat alone with his laptop, intently typing out a social studies assignment. Many classrooms resemble a traditional setup, with a teacher at the front of the room and students sitting in rows, at desks, completing assignments with pen and paper.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Walls who is awesome, you know, who knows her content, who has a good rapport with students, who is learning how to get that information over to the students so they can understand what’s happening in biology,” says Central High School Assistant Principal Courtney Jackson. We may pick a person like Ms. According to U.S. BACK IN THE DELTA.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Without fully informing his mother, the school district pulled him out of the regular education program and assigned him to classes focused on life skills. Try a few questions yourself Many psychologists believe that traditional intelligence tests too often measure what a child already knows, not how well they can think.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. The social studies activity Space Race in McGraw Hill AR How has incorporating AR in your classroom enhanced the learning experience for your students?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Conversational Videos in the Classroom from Social Studies School Service on Vimeo. Previously published by Social Studies School Services. Similarly, ChatGPT, an open AI interface can be used as a brainstorming partner to help students access information and creative avenues that improve their writing.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 5, 2023

Thinking Tasks Unlike in a more traditional classroom, where the lesson might start with direct instruction from the teacher, a typical day in a Thinking Classroom starts with the teacher assigning thinking tasks for students to work on in groups, and direct instruction is only given on an as-needed basis.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Through ConnectED, Esri made a billion dollar offer: any K-12 school in the United States could acquire professional online Geographic Information Systems (GIS software), instructional activities, professional development events, and resources for educators and mentors. Ordonez presented and review information at their own pace.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 108

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Academic language includes the key academic concepts, related vocabulary , and syntax needed to navigate reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and other subjects. The Academic Language Gap. Too often academic language is treated as a list of definitions to be memorized, not as complex concepts to be unpacked.

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EdTech K-12 Social Studies Research 106

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. They are not merely passive recipients of information but are required to engage with the material on a deeper level.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. considered passing. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I hope no behavioral concerns arise, because if I can avoid a parent phone call I might be able to get some of this done—well, that is if I do a virtual assignment during social studies. At every level, education leaders were panicking about the lack of information around student achievement since the pandemic began. Oh, shoot.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As a Black woman in a STEM career, Freeman knows the difficulties that Black students, particularly Black women, typically face going into traditional STEM fields. A lot of the time, education and content are in silos—ELA, math, social studies, science—but that's not how the world works," she explains.

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Lesson Plan Classroom Management Professional Development Social Studies 94

TCI

APRIL 30, 2024

Students learn best when they take in information through multiple modalities. Videos cater to different learning styles, allowing students to absorb information through both visual and auditory channels. Learning with video can help students retain more information. Multimodal engagement. Higher content retention.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now he’s lobbying his friends who are old enough to vote by informing them how they and their community would benefit if the Oakland Youth Vote passes. The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join.

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Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Virtual for-profit charter schools got started in the early 2000s, as the companies that run them seized on a business opportunity in online education pioneered by traditional public schools a half-decade earlier. Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc.,

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