A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2020

To adequately prepare, schools should consider focusing their efforts and resources on the following three areas: Hybrid Learning Models : Hybrid learning combines both traditional and non-traditional learning strategies as well as digital tools to create a cohesive learning experience for kids.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 16, 2023

By understanding how these tools impact teaching and learning, educators can determine which ones to use and how to implement them effectively. When aligned with personalized pedagogy , harnessing the power of digital tools can help students take charge of their learning and become more self-directed in their education.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

My role, like in many other similar districts across the country, has been to assist the teachers and administrators with digital pedagogy leading to purposeful use and efficacy using the framework below. They have utilized me as a keynoter, coach (leadership and teaching), and workshop presenter. Some aren't new, but others might be.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

This is the second post as part of an adapted article I co-authored, Real-World Ready: Leveraging Digital Tools A few weeks back I shared ways that digital tools can improve teaching and learning. A good rule to follow is pedagogy first, technology second when appropriate.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2020

Adaptive Technologies Nothing replaces sound instructional design and pedagogy. Tasks and assignments can be completed over a specific time period using strategies addressed in this post as well as more traditional options such as research papers or projects. Be sure to check out my entire #remotelearning series.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2015

This framework, based on traditional elements of education yet encouraging movement from acquisition of knowledge to application of knowledge, charts learning along the two dimensions of higher standards and student achievement. Pedagogy first, technology second when appropriate.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 21, 2019

I know when I went through my coursework and teaching certification process this was emphasized in any lesson plan. I have reflected a great deal on the objective aspect of the lesson and in my coaching with schools on pedagogy have advised them to move away from this traditional component of lesson design and implementation.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

He didn’t teach science. South had us actively learn science instead of just taking notes and then a traditional assessment. South from his peers was his passion for helping students learn and love the sciences. His lessons were light on direct instruction and heavy on authentic connections and application. We learned science.

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Pedagogy and Formation

MARCH 5, 2025

Formation as the Practice of many Practices I write in my book 'Pedagogy and Education for Life' that: Education is the whole of life of a community, and the experience of its members learning to live this life, from the standpoint of a specific goal. Whats more, Habitus is part of Aristotles teaching on Ethics.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Now is not the time to revert back to traditional observation and evaluation protocols because, quite frankly, they will not result in improved outcomes. An emphasis on priority standards can significantly reduce teachers' burden while streamlining other pedagogy aspects, such as assessment.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 10, 2020

Below I will address these through a new lens from which we can begin to transform teaching, learning, and leadership in a post-COVID19 world. The purposeful use of technology and sound pedagogy that empowers kids to think through relevant applications should be the drivers. Learning going forward should be anything but common.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 6, 2014

This technique typically makes students uncomfortable at first as they have become so conditioned by our traditional culture of education where they would rather be spoon-fed information instead of having to think. best practices inquiry New Milford High School pedagogy science Tahreen Chowdhury'

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2024

The Relevant Thinking Framework is a powerful tool that educators can use to enhance learning outcomes by aligning teaching methods with how students learn most effectively. Educators should use the framework as a dynamic tool to scaffold instruction and assessment while moving to more personalized pedagogies.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

In studying various pieces of literature on the effect of design, Barrett and Zhang began with the understanding that a “bright, warm, quiet, safe, clean, comfortable, and healthy environment is an important component of successful teaching and learning” (p. Understanding how the learning space itself can affect the way students learn is key.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

Education is currently at a crossroads as traditional methods and tools are changing as a result of advances in technology and learning theory. We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 3, 2014

This often produces a disastrous effect as the pedagogy does not support the use of the technology tool in arriving to or assessing learning outcomes. Vicki Davis has created a resource that identifies how traditional writing can be taken to the next level with cloud-based tools.

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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. Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it. And he actually teaches this to kids, FADAF, you know, You got to FADAF this one.” ” David-Lang says.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2011

Succumbing to the negative rhetoric, abiding by the status quo, and having a bunker mentality will do nothing to initiate needed changes in our building to improve teaching and learning. Embrace 21st Century Pedagogy and Curriculum A vision begins with talk, but will only become reality with action.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Navigating this terrain requires a delicate balance, ensuring that the joy and engagement of games enhance rather than detract from educational objectives while aiming to foster an inclusive and responsive pedagogy. The Reinvent the Classroom HP Teaching Fellows offer insights about integrating games and playful learning in their lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But many schools limit what is possible by adhering to rigid and outdated frameworks like traditional subject and grade divisions. To their profound credit, well-intentioned teachers have moved mountains to cultivate online learning platforms devoted to teaching the skills they otherwise would have taught in their classrooms.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2015

Josh articulates how teachers have to be ready and willing to change the way they think about teaching to be able to effectively work with this new generation of learners. Education needs a revolution of ideas, pedagogy, and the very way in which we talk about teaching and learning.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 18, 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. ’ There are no two schools that are identical, not the student makeup, not the student population, nor the teaching body. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

E nergy: " To teach is to touch a life forever" - Anonymous As educators we must exhibit a passion for what we do because each day we have the opportunity to positively impact the life of a child. I even discussed the push to move away from traditional seating arrangements in order to promote collaboration.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As a result, it can be difficult at times to compete for attention using traditional teaching methods like whiteboards, worksheets, and extended direct instruction. As I have written extensively in the past the digital world that we are now all apart of provides so much promise with paired with sound pedagogy.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Teaching Anthropology. Human Organization.

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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. Not any more.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. How did that go?

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 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. Teaching is intense, vulnerable work. ” This is a big shift from traditional coaching, she says, “which is about data cycles and analyzing student work, learning targets and all of that.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

A recent study within a number of school districts, including the Middletown City School District, showed significantly greater academic growth in blended learning versus traditional classes. Successful and sustained edtech implementation requires that good pedagogy must first be in play within the classroom. So, what can be done?

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Intersectionality Under the Sunshine State Teaching Intersectional Anthropology was significant because, in my (bio)archaeological work, I engage with intersectional thinkers in my writing and was eager to share the vast body of thought with my students. So was the privilege to teach as a professor. I received my Ph.D. Earning a Ph.D.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 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. As an example of what that entails, consider the More Teaching Less Testing Act from NY Representative Jamaal Bowman. Teaching Machines. first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. Watters, A.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

The resulting article described New Milford High School’s many accomplishments pertaining to the use of educational technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. To put some perspective on this, not one traditional classroom had an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) in it four years ago. Currently we now have twenty.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

This work requires a depth of discipline and perseverance from our students that can at times be difficult to foster within the limits of traditional instruction. The white picket fence, two kids, and the traditional nine-to-five workday are quickly losing their appeal. The American Dream no longer exists as Gen Xers know it to be.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Her response stunned me, not just because she had yelled, but because of who she wasa student who had been a leader in my classroom, someone with whom I had built a strong relationship through teaching art the previous year. Then, I walked back inside and continued teaching. I walked over and quietly asked her to step outside with me.

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