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5 Conditions for Getting Formative Assessment Right

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to my interview with Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang ( transcript ): Sponsored by Listenwise and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. It was not learned.”

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

I was more of a periodical girl, with the magazines and the newspapers and an occasional novel or self-help book. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. A really good day is when I'm able to complete my lesson plan from beginning to end, when children are catching what I'm bringing in five seconds.

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Experience and the educational ecosystem: why retention of experienced colleagues matters for beginning teachers

Becoming a History Teacher

They understood the need to prioritise and advocate for lesson planning as an important aspect of beginning teacher’s training despite it being in conflict with wider school developments. 2024) Teacher workforce woes pose big questions for next education secretary , TES Magazine, [link] 10.1108/JPCC-12-2018-0032.

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. To date, they have created more than 100 maker-focused lesson plans for students in Grades 1 to Grade 8 in both English and French Immersion programs. Makerspaces in Ontario Schools. Teaching Perseverence.

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Engaging Students with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial

Studies Weekly

They love playing the game after reading an article online or in the magazine. The other reason that I love Social Studies Weekly is the materials. The kids enjoyed it. I can pull up the online component and we can either work on this game as a whole class to earn coins or we can work with teams.

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Helpful Resources and Tips for Teachers Using Studies Weekly

Studies Weekly

Take advantage of your resources like lesson plans, teaching strategies, printables, and more. Your Studies Weekly Online classroom contains digital versions of your publications and more online resources like digital lesson plans, videos, and presentations you can project to the whole class.

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We know how to provide good child care, we just don’t insist on it

The Hechinger Report

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. Sign up for our newsletter. Or view the whole series. Imagine that you have just entered a room with 12 2-year-olds in it. Weekly Update.