A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2021

Blended learning – One of the best ways to incorporate all of the above is through blended pedagogies. From here, it is about empowering students to use technology to learn in ways that they couldn't without it. Often, though, there is confusion as to what this really is. Blended instruction is what the teacher does with technology.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. ” Ideally, she says, teachers should have a plan B written into their lesson plans, a next step for what to do for students who show that they aren’t getting it. It was not learned.”

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

Artifacts such as assessments, lesson plans, unit plans, projects, and examples of student work can easily be converted to a sharable link using Google Docs. Links to your resources and work can be archived and annotated using a social bookmarking tool such as Diigo.

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Becoming a History Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Understanding Seb’s choices One of the hardest things for beginning teachers to grasp is that teaching is about a lot more than designing activities which will engage/ enthuse/ occupy the pupils for the lesson. All too often beginning teachers are attracted to the pedagogy as an end itself, rather than as the vehicle to that end.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In the schools I have the honor of coaching in, I see more and more evidence of co-planning and sharing of resources both within the school and across the district as a means to lessen the load. I am all for teachers selling lesson plans, assessments, support materials, and other resources to their peers.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. When it came to the lesson plan piece, many of my colleagues and I in the Northeastern United States were educated in the Instructional Theory Into Practice Model (ITIP) developed by Madeline Hunter.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The real aim of educational technology should be to modernize pedagogy and to shape the education of the future. Their evidence might consist of a web link to a page or site that demonstrates what they have done, a lesson plan, a video of classroom practice, or even a text description of how they or their students have used the tool.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. So yeah, I'm an educator and businesswoman. What does a hard day look like in your role?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Since I was fortunate enough to have a week-long spring break before school resumed, I decided to try a new approach in my lesson planning and utilize student feedback to develop a thoughtful, interactive, and critical unit on environmental justice.

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ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Technology can also play a pivotal role by blending gamification and pedagogy to sustain student interest while teaching key skills. Research-backed solutions tailored to young learners offer educators ready-to-use resources and structured lesson plans, reducing the burden of preparation and ensuring consistency in instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Many of Kaler-Jones’ students — most of them Black — weren’t taught about important Black figures or positive history lessons from a non-white perspective in school. When she discovered this, Kaler-Jones began weaving culturally responsive lesson plans into her dance classes. Credit: Courtesy of Cierra Kaler-Jones.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

AI isn't just a new tool; it is a shift in pedagogy. Using calculators increased mathematical thinking skills, but not just by themselves; there was a lot of really thoughtful pedagogy on when and how to introduce calculators. What are the equity and ethical considerations when it comes to AI use?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Teachers were burnt out, the national turnover rate was high and our school didn’t have the capacity to train staff to facilitate community-building circles and implement socio-emotional pedagogy. Considering these adverse factors, the school leaders decided to invest in our students’ well-being and purchase a packaged curriculum.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences. Throughout her career, Swan has been interested in inquiry-based pedagogy, drawing from her experiences as a teacher. She then earned her Ph.D.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Lesson planning : Do they come up with interesting activities to teach their content? The post Your Teachers Need a Win first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. Do you notice them modeling behaviors that students might emulate? Do they ask challenging questions? Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. The post 17 Tweaks That Make a Big Difference in Group Work first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2018

While 21st-century pedagogy puts group projects and collaborative learning at center stage for students, these cooperative habits have not yet assumed such a prominent role for teachers. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. Frequent feedback.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While I loved working with that age group, I eventually left my school largely because administration favored scripted curriculum and discouraged teachers from augmenting lesson plans. Ever since I’d read Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” the idea of “ banking ” education didn’t sit well with me.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

For every lesson plan I toiled over while teaching English as a New Language for 16 years in New York City and Tucson high schools, there were at least 15–20 adjustments made as I enacted that lesson plan with real people in real time.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Skills for Innovation framework (image credit: Intel) The Skills for Innovation program provides Starter Pack lesson plans and professional learning resources that connect real-world problem-solving and 21st-century learning with core disciplines.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

’ A prime example of this work from 2014 are the texts, lesson plans, and pedagogy shared by educators on Twitter through #FergusonSyllabus.” ” Robert Bajor. Project Manager. Educator Micro-credentials. "With " Jennifer Kabaker.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2018

These approaches come in various forms, from pre-packaged, scripted programs delivered by educational publishers to teacher-developed lesson plans and countless others. Related: Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

They listed among their younger colleagues’ strengths: lesson planning, the ability to adjust their teaching to the needs of students, and preparedness to address the academic needs of struggling students. We talk about first looking at your environment, your curriculum and your pedagogy, and make the best choices for your students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Soon, they will have to understand it, regulate its use and also implement it in their own pedagogy. For example, the use of AI “can start with a two-week lesson plan. The introduction of generative AI into society shines a bright spotlight on these educators. Then we experiment with making a rubric for it,” he explains.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With barely a month’s worth of virtual training on lesson planning, pedagogy, content specific best practices, assessment, DEI work and classroom management, I was nowhere near prepared to teach a culturally and linguistically diverse sixth grade class completely online during the height of a pandemic.

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Becoming a History Teacher

MARCH 11, 2025

Pace targets relating to the balance of abstract and conceptual thinking can be supported by: mentors undertaking a whispered observation with their mentee (or observing a filmed lesson together) drawing their attention to the way the teacher varies the pace of the lesson as they move between abstract and concrete activity phases.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It focuses on lesson planning, instruction, assessment and academic language – all in support of student learning. The most common performance assessment used to review, assess and support teacher candidates is edTPA. Related: New Orleans’ uphill battle for more black and homegrown teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

Related: Customized math lessons could help students learn more, research says. Elementary school teachers are generalists,” said John Ewing, president of Math for America, a non-profit that offers fellowships to teachers to improve math pedagogy. MAF’s Ewing suggested another on-the-job approach such as the one Finland uses.

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Achieve the Core

JULY 7, 2023

Structures also help facilitate effective lesson planning and instruction. The post Classroom Structures and Math Milestones™ appeared first on Peers and Pedagogy. At Concourse Village Elementary School, we have several schoolwide systems and structures in place that allow for the day to run smoothly.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

These pedagogies then can be broken down into more specific teaching moves, which helps teachers better see how they can support students in analyzing a text. This might mean comparing two moments from the same lesson, two examples of the same pedagogical move, or a video with related materials like lesson plans and student work.

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Transcending Pedagogy

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Then he asked it to write a lesson plan helping high school students work on the concept of theme. The post Dystopian Daymares appeared first on Transcending Pedagogy. And it did. In less than 5 seconds. It wasn’t great, but when prompted to include specific textual references, it did. And it did. In seconds.

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Pedagogy to Share

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I began both lessons with a quiet activity which allowed the students to get seated, calm down, look around the room and get ready for the class in an easygoing fashion. Two of my didactics courses opened last week with the beginning of the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Letters and Ink Blog

JULY 26, 2022

It also means that I’m not writing lesson plans on Sunday afternoons, and when I was out for a week with COVID last year the lessons were already essentially ready to go – I just had to send them to my principal. Then, I’ll print it out and use it as my planning guide.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

I would be shocked if Summit was not an excellent school, because I believe [Summit founder and CEO] Diane Tavenner cares deeply about pedagogy and instruction,” Riley said. Most Basecamp schools make a lot of changes to the platform’s lesson plans, projects and assessments.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. The post Curating a More Inclusive Library first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

MagicSchool offers more than 50 different AI-assisted tools to help speed up so many of the teaching tasks that take so much time: lesson planning, assessment building, feedback, communication with parents, even an IEP generator. The Tools 1. MagicSchool magicschool.ai Diffit web.diffit.me Need a text on a particular topic?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. Today, nearly every DelSesto lesson plan unspools from a Summit-brand “playlist,” a menu of personalized activities.

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