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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Lesson Plan Pedagogy History Teaching 68

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

It begins with a focus on improving teaching, learning, and leadership followed by utilizing an array of digital assets at every educator’s disposal to share and amplify. 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.

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Archiving Artifacts Leadership Pedagogy 357

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Teaching is tough. I, for one, would spend hours planning and grading in the evening, at night, and on weekends. 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.

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Teaching Research 300

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 105

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Image credit: https://media.licdn.com/ Worlds of Learning provides a framework that allows any educator to earn micro-credentials for free through learning about a range of technology tools and applications and then putting what they learn into practice in their own teaching. Users submit “proof” to her that they have done so.

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Professional Development Educational Technology 230

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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Lesson Plan Project-Based Learning Classroom Management Research 363

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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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Teaching Research 98

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 107

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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K-12 Professional Development Pedagogy Psychology 66

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. The post Teaching Together for Change appeared first on Digital Promise. Read the original version here. Frequent feedback.

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Teaching Pedagogy Lesson Plan Research 77

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. So teaching them how to do this well while they are in school is time well spent.

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Lesson Plan Pedagogy Classroom Management Teaching 130

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. AI isn't just a new tool; it is a shift in pedagogy.

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Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Professional Development 134

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Despite headlines about teacher shortages and a workforce that must become more diversified, recent federal regulations and a decade of policy has focused on the quality of teaching and teacher preparation to ensure that all teachers are ready to teach and meet high standards of performance from Day One. How do we know this?

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Teaching Pedagogy Leadership Tradition 84

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. However, as any teacher who has been forced to teach a scripted curriculum will tell you, rarely is it an effective course of action.

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EdTech Humanities Pedagogy Lesson Plan 127

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

She was talking about how my website and podcast sometimes make her feel like she’s not doing enough, she’s doing it all wrong, her teaching is never quite good enough. Something like teaching. Do they seem excited about the thing they’re teaching? The opposite is also true. Do they ask challenging questions?

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Library Leadership 130

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

My teaching workweek was practically full-time, but I had two other jobs. I first got into teaching because I loved kids and I loved books. 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.

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Lesson Plan Social Justice Pedagogy Teaching 104

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. If you recognize one of these common approaches to group work in your own teaching style, give it a tweak and pay attention to the impact your subtle change makes on the effectiveness of group work.

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Pedagogy Library Lesson Plan Classroom Management 130

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2018

In a recent article , Emily Hanford reported that many educators rely on ineffective means of teaching students to read and ignore substantial research that demonstrates better outcomes from phonics instruction than from the whole language approach. Indeed, there are a variety of approaches used to teach early reading development.

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Pedagogy Lesson Plan Teaching Tradition 103

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. Everything I learned [from SFI] can be applied to any subject area that I teach.”

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K-12 Pedagogy Lesson Plan Teaching 101

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. All of this was both necessary and a welcome intellectual challenge.

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Education K-12 Lesson Plan Pedagogy 81

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff listened intently as a group of veteran teachers listed what they think rookie teachers need before entering the classroom: more time student teaching and more training in how to communicate with colleagues, parents and students themselves. Photo: Peggy Barmore. COLUMBIA, Mo. And then she spoke. Photo: Peggy Barmore.

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Classroom Management Lesson Plan Pedagogy Elementary School 110

Becoming a History Teacher

MARCH 11, 2025

Pace Target 5: The time allocated to each task has not been adjusted during the lesson in response to checking for pupils understanding/ assessment for learning feedback. Beginning teachers find in-lesson adaptations of their plans very tricky indeed.

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Lesson Plan Teaching Pedagogy Education 52

ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Soon, they will have to understand it, regulate its use and also implement it in their own pedagogy. For leaders like Daniel-Hardy, the introduction of generative AI to the teaching-learning process “feels different,” even though they’ve seen multiple waves of disruptive technology circle in and out through classrooms.

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EdTech Professional Development Lesson Plan Critical Thinking 98

Pedagogy to Share

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In the “Teaching English to Young Learners” course, they read a note from me in English, and in the “Literacy: Didactics for Hebrew Teaching” course, they read a quotation about language in Hebrew. I presented a message in code and asked the students to translate it into their notebooks.

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Teaching Lesson Plan 130

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

We used to teach procedural math, but now students have to understand the ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’.”. The problem is that elementary school teachers did not learn math that way, and many now struggle to teach to the new standards. Related: Customized math lessons could help students learn more, research says. This is not true.

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Elementary School K-12 Professional Development Tutoring 76

Edthena

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

These moments may be important because they differ from what the teacher expected or because they illustrate important principles of teaching and learning. Spot helps teachers build video analysis skills because teachers can draw connections between video evidence and the qualities of teaching that they’ve identified as important.

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Artifacts Pedagogy Lesson Plan Teaching 64

Achieve the Core

JULY 7, 2023

More time to plan, more time to research, more time to teach, more time to connect, more time to assess, and more time to engage. Structures also help facilitate effective lesson planning and instruction. The post Classroom Structures and Math Milestones™ appeared first on Peers and Pedagogy. I found time!

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Elementary School Pedagogy Lesson Plan Teaching 52

Letters and Ink Blog

JULY 26, 2022

There are endless aspects of teaching that cause me stress and anxiety over the course of the school year. 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.

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Lesson Plan Teaching Social Studies History 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 80

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. Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun. The post Curating a More Inclusive Library first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

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Library Social Justice Pedagogy Humanities 249

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

“Educators were kept engaged through WhatsApp groups and sent videos of themselves teaching post-training,” says Rewane. Startups like GoMyCode, out of Tunisia, or Kibo School, which works with learners in Africa, teach coding and tech skills, and source tutors directly from their own alumni pipelines. hours to 10 minutes.

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EdTech Tutoring Lesson Plan Professional Development 120

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. 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.

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K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 109

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. Swan worked as a bank examiner for the FDIC before transitioning to teaching, which she pursued both domestically and internationally for about 10 years.

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Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 115

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

While this is a positive trend, I also hope adult education teachers are able to focus on teaching their students how to learn in a way that is content-agnostic. ’ A prime example of this work from 2014 are the texts, lesson plans, and pedagogy shared by educators on Twitter through #FergusonSyllabus.”

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Education Civics Pedagogy Lesson Plan 108

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

Technology in todays classrooms is advancing rapidly, reshaping the way students learn and teachers teach, especially with advancements in AI. These educators are utilizing AI both as a tool and as a thought partner in teaching, which helps create more opportunities for mentoring and cultivating meaningful connections with their students.

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Education Lesson Plan Pedagogy Critical Thinking 69

ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For Role Call , our series where we feature unsung school staff members who help shape the day for kids, we spoke with Hawkins about how her job determines how teachers teach and what students learn and the ripple effect that can have. And so teachers will teach, keep, change, flip, but they don't tell students why it works.

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Middle School Teaching Pedagogy Lesson Plan 118

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 19, 2016

In my mind, pedagogy trumps technology and the importance of instructional design cannot be overstated. I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. There is also an option to search teacher-created lesson plans. As Donald Norman stated, “I'm not a fan of technology.

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EdTech Pedagogy Lesson Plan Teaching 221