Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. This map shows the location of archaeological sites and their associated occupational phases in the Banda Traditional Area, Bono Region, Ghana.

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Oral History Archaeology Heritage History 141

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2014

Over the years they have been given more ownership over all aspects of their education experience and have taken advantage of it by helping us to redefine teaching and learning for a new age. There is a dire need to support educators in the areas of digital leadership and learning while exposing them to non-traditional learning pathways.

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Leadership K-12 High School Cultures 419

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

15 Alternatives To Report Cards In The K-12 Classroom by TeachThought Staff Like lunchboxes (or brown paper sacks), field trips, and textbooks, report cards are iconic–symbols of traditional classrooms and traditional approaches to education. But it’s not that simple. Provide clear and measurable learning outcomes.

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Critical Thinking K-12 Tradition Teaching 306

ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education. Is it time to give traditional letter grade systems an F and replace them with alternatives that focus more on getting more students to master material?

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Tutoring K-12 Psychology High School 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

As a sector, we are being bombarded with reports of our failings in the teaching of maths, which leaves teachers and principals across the country feeling uncertain of what to do, and how to teach maths effectively, Rodgers wrote in a report to her school community at the end of the sabbatical. Related: Widen your perspective.

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Government Professional Development K-12 Teaching 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. For decades, the primary methods for teaching students how to read in the U.S.

High School 145

High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

This past summer, I had the opportunity to observe district leaders, teachers, and university supervisors from TeachOregon’s Salem-Keiser Teacher Preparation Collaborative as they trained new mentor teachers in the effective co-teaching of new residents. Third, there’s teaching quality. Planning is the second theme that loomed large.

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Tradition Classroom Management Professional Development Education Policy 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2024

When Natalia Molina began teaching her second grade students word problems earlier this school year, every lesson felt difficult. I saw how overwhelmed they would get,” said Molina, who teaches at Segue Institute for Learning, a predominantly Hispanic charter school in this small city just north of Providence. CENTRAL FALLS, R.I.

Teaching 139

Teaching Elementary School K-12 Charter School 139

ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. The old ways of teaching seemed to leave students without an understanding of the importance of math for their chosen field. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

Teaching 137

Teaching K-12 Tradition High School 137

Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2021

Last year’s abrupt transition to remote learning impacted all levels of K-12 education. According to a National Parents Union Survey in October 2020, 45 percent of parents of K-12 students would opt to keep their children fully online if given the opportunity. Teaching & Learning. Professional Development.

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K-12 Professional Development Tradition Teaching 143

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At a time when we are witnessing yet another political battle to restrict students and young people from learning about Black history, I want to remind us all that learning and teaching Black history shouldn’t be a matter of choice or convenience – it is a necessity. For me, the ability to teach Black history is a matter of life and death.

History 112

History Teaching K-12 Artifacts 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

And, thankfully, our teachers were able to continue teaching, and our students continued learning. When I read about some of the challenges that many of my traditional brick-and-mortar counterparts are experiencing, my heart goes out to them. We already had the online curriculum. We already had the technological support.

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Tradition Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan Social Studies 114

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 136

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Many users are underwhelmed and longing for the moment we can return to traditional in-person instruction. Medicine, aviation and the military have been using training simulations like this for years, teaching people to make better split – second decisions in pretend hospitals, cockpits and battlefields. Nice gig.).

Teaching 122

Teaching Classroom Management Humanities Educational Technology 122

Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

that’s how an after-school program for technology and arts eventually became a national model for incorporating computational thinking into a K-12 curriculum. This “eureka” moment motivated Owens and Kruth to teach educators, students and their families the basics of Scratch.

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K-12 Middle School Elementary School Library 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I hear frequently from those in business that younger employees, directly out of K-12 or higher education, are looking for direction. The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios.

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K-12 Advocacy High School Tradition 129

TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Active learning strategies have transformed K-12 classroom instruction, shifting away from passive lectures to interactive, student-centered learning experiences. times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes. times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes.

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K-12 Education Critical Thinking Tradition 52

Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Preliminary research suggests that design thinking improves metacognition in K-12 students, and ultimately improves STEM performance. For K-12 students to develop strong skills in design thinking, they rely heavily on the acumen of their educators. Work in mathematics (Goldman et al., 1998), science (Kolodner et al.,

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K-12 Professional Development Tradition Public School 133

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Franklin West Supervisory Union will add the district’s first full-time CS teacher to work directly with K-8 students. Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Public School 121

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2022

The station rotation model is a popular K-12 blended learning model that rotates students through a series of stations or learning activities. I found it helpful to identify the learning objectives for a lesson and write out a traditional linear agenda since that was familiar. The station rotation model is incredibly flexible.

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Tutoring Lesson Plan K-12 Tradition 167

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. But complaining about students isn’t the answer, Cohn and other teaching experts say. Teaching The Why Sarah Z. So being open about ‘this is why I'm asking you to do it.’”

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K-12 Teaching High School Social Studies 131

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We Ocheze Joseph And these students aren’t just getting relevant teaching experience. It seems to be making a difference for both the tutors and the K-12 students. They’re also getting paid. They’re hooked.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. Nilsson teaches at Deerfield Academy , a private school in western Massachusetts. Subscribe today!

Humanities 111

Humanities K-12 Tradition Private School 111

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University.

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K-12 Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 140

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding.

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K-12 Heritage Middle School Cultures 129

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In fact, the authors made the surprising conclusion that many instances of flipped learning involve more time spent on passive learning than the traditional lecture model, because some professors both assign short video lectures and spend some time in class lecturing to prepare for class activities.

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Research K-12 Elementary School Learning Science 142

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But it’s a sign that at least more men are starting to pay attention to the fact that many boys aren’t performing well in school even as there are few men — especially men of color teaching younger grades — in American schools. It can even be astonishing to find men who want to teach. In 2021, the latest publicly available data, 79.5

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K-12 Teaching Community Engagement Tradition 138

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I

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Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

Digital Promise

JUNE 9, 2021

While expanding access to technology and broadband alone will not improve teaching and learning, our new K-12 Leaders’ Guide to Successful Technology Integration shares lessons learned from several Digital Promise initiatives, including seven years of implementing the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) program.

Cultures 118

Cultures K-12 Professional Development Leadership 118

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you’re able to answer these, that’s how you teach data science to third graders—taking what seem like complex or abstract concepts and applying them to tangible elements in students’ lives. How much does it weigh? If you’ve got a cat, same questions apply. What’s the dog-to-cat ratio in your classroom (or office or home)?

Research 144

Research K-12 Tradition Humanities 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

ethos to her teaching. The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We Students learn at different paces and via different teaching styles, the thinking goes. We watch the show and dissect it.”. This approach is dynamic.

Teaching 112

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 112

Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

Over the last 12 years, the school system has undergone major upheavals. To ensure access to high-quality educational experiences at the high school level, students enrolled in Grades 9-12 were provided tuition to attend one of two neighboring high schools. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit.

K-12 131

K-12 Artifacts Leadership Library 131

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Another colleague, another friend had resigned from their teaching position at my school. A recent Gallup Poll revealed that K-12 workers have the highest rate of burnout in the American workforce, with more than 44 percent of K-12 workers in the U.S. My teaching career has been turbulent.

K-12 140

K-12 Charter School Public School Elementary School 140

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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Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 130

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Learning by doing is more effective in the long term to produce mastery, but that’s not what happens in a traditional AP class.”. “If I’ve done the traditional cookie-cutter lab classes,” she said.

Teaching 106

Teaching Education Psychology High School 106

ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Or in K-12 settings, where the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum used by many high schools has an oral component. Compared to a traditional essay assignment, Carlson believes that the approach makes it harder for students to cheat using ChatGPT or other AI tools.

Education 143

Education K-12 Tradition Teaching 143

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Additionally, the vast majority of states require educators to participate in professional development to earn or maintain their teaching credentials. As in other industries, professional development for educators can offer valuable opportunities to improve their practice, learn new skills and grow. what would convince them to earn one.

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Professional Development K-12 Tradition Teaching 122