Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. This new research confronts that narrative, positioning children as active creators whose unique contributions have long been overlooked.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

A trio of researchers argues that it’s unclear where students with disabilities learn the most and recommends that teachers and parents focus first on interventions students need. Ideally, from a research perspective, youd want to randomly assign students with disabilities to both types of classrooms and see where they learn more.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While its role in Aztec rituals and warfare has long intrigued archaeologists, recent research published in Communications Psychology 1 explores its impact on the human brain. This study provides new insights into how these whistles amplified fear, heightened emotional states, and reinforced the psychological power of Aztec rituals.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2022

Below are some simple strategies that you can use immediately and long-term, many of which are research-based. Research has shown that feedback is vital in establishing good relations as it can enhance relationships, strengthen loyalty and commitment, and increase morale (Smith, 2009). & Ryan, R. 1994) Promoting Self?determined

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

After doing some research, I realized that identifying clearly what the ‘types of questions’ are isn’t easy because there isn’t a set number. Much like when I wrote about types of transfer of learning or types of blended learning , it was clear that although I kept seeing the same categories and question types, there really wasn’t a limit.

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 25, 2024

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new IB Diploma psychology curriculum coming soon. All Year 1 Diploma psychology students will be studying it from September 2025. The new psychology guide won’t be published until Feb/March 2025, but teachers don’t need to wait till then to start preparing.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new genomic study, published in Frontiers in Psychology 1 , approaches the problem differently. By analyzing genetic divergences in early Homo sapiens populations, researchers argue that the biological capacity for language must have been present at least 135,000 years ago. Palgrave Macmillan. 1 Miyagawa, S.,

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Research by Avolio, Walumbwa, and Weber (2009) highlighted that transparent leaders encourage participative decision-making, improving the quality of decisions and enhancing staff embracement of ideas, strategies, and new initiatives. Leadership: Current theories, research, and future directions. Decision-making is also enhanced.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

11, she unearths troves of research and threads together narratives from around the globe to back up an idea that she has long known to be true in her own life. She has these dual researcher and practitioner hats. Many researchers have looked at the intersection of play and the number of friendships, and there is a clear connection.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2023

Research provides a sound rationale for its importance and impact on learners. Educational psychology: developing learners (7th ed.). In particular, I see a clear connection to how path and pace can promote self-regulation, a competency that is important for students in school and all of us in our professional lives. An article by Y.

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 28, 2024

Though the IB Diploma psychology is recommended as a two-year course , I know that some teachers have to fit it into one year! Here is a suggested two-year plan for your psychology course. It will also work if you are lucky enough to teach your HL and SL students separately. This is essential when conducting the class practicals.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 24, 2016

Psychology does not work in our favor. A great deal of research has found that negative perspective is more contagious than positive perspective. Some researchers posit that, psychologically speaking, negative events weigh close to three times more than positive events. It is relatively easy to succumb to the negative.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“News literacy is fundamental to preparing students to become active, critically thinking members of our civic life — which should be one of the primary goals of a public education,” Kim Bowman, News Literacy Project senior research manager and author of the report, said in an email interview. “If

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The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Heres another line from an email correspondence with the researcher and professor: Ask teachers to describe their theory of teaching and they can go on for hoursask teachers to describe their theory of learning – and silence Again, I think this silence is a result of many teachers not really understanding how we learn.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2025

A year ago, paper and pen seemed to be the winner when the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a Norwegian study that documented how different areas of the brain were communicating more frequently when students were writing by hand. You are faced with a notable dilemma: Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes?

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Psychology Sorted

JULY 2, 2024

As stated in the subject brief, the content for the new psychology course comprises the three approaches – biological, cognitive and sociocultural – and research methodology. Students will need to give an example, but it does not need to be a psychological study. It can be a theory or a relevant example from life.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Research in economics and psychology shows that these tests fail to measure key traits like perseverance, motivation and conscientiousness qualities that strongly predict long-term success. The obsession reflects a broader issue in education research itself. What role do families play?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

They’d researched topics including solar energy and composting, acquiring skills in project management and finance as they developed their business plans. New research in the journal WIREs Climate Change examines the fossil fuel industry’s extensive involvement in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first. Weve all been there.

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Edthena

AUGUST 31, 2022

Positive psychology. Check out the conversation above, or continue reading for highlights including what positive psychology has to do with supporting teacher well-being. Check out the conversation above, or continue reading for highlights including what positive psychology has to do with supporting teacher well-being.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Moreover, with regard to syndemics Horton tweeted , The anthropology community is ahead of medicine and public health.Once labeled a little-known buzzword that nonetheless describes our troubled times in Smithsonian Magazine , syndemic theory now informs a rich body of health research and interventions. Why teach syndemics?

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

At the recent Montessori Schools of Massachusetts conference, I shared how cutting-edge brain research aligns with and validates core Montessori principles. Recent research by Gotlieb and colleagues (2022) shows that this drive for meaning has profound effects on brain development. Here's a summary of some of those key points.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings. It’s not the long-term solution.

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Psychology Sorted

JULY 27, 2024

My recorded presentation is today! Who doesn’t want full marks in Paper 3?! Laura Swash provides all you need to get your students toward this goal. Come here to discuss and share strategies. Paper3 Enjoyed the session? Support Laura’s fundraiser for Open Road, an organisation that works with families affected by addiction.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

Below are three questions that kids should be able to answer if learning is relevant : What they learned Why they learned it How they will use what they learned outside of school Image credit: Erik Francis To dig a little deeper Robin Roberson discusses two fundamental ways to provide relevance to students aligned to research. Ormrod, J.E.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that data. A lot of the studies are about freshman college kids, right?

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Education, he suggests, must go beyond academic knowledge and address the psychological and neurological roots of human behavior. While science and technology have advanced, the biological and psychological forces that shaped early human societies remain largely unchanged. Related Research Sapolsky, R. Penguin Random House.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. But a recent international analysis of all the available research on special education inclusion found inconsistent results. Again, more research is needed to confirm this statistically.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course. I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Cori Schwarzrock is an AP Psychology teacher at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Il. Not sure where to start?

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TeachThought

JUNE 10, 2024

So I did a little research and initially didn’t find much to ease my confusion. Edith Ackerman, a “ Swiss-born American psychologist who explored the interactions between developmental psychology, play, learning and design.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 3, 2024

Below are four possible explanations from cognitive psychology to explain this occurrence, followed by some possible solutions. Research by Cowan in 2010 showed evidence that four chunks are about all we can process in working memory at any one time. In cognitive psychology, this is a kind of dual coding of information.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Dozens of nonprofit organizations have promoted the research evidence that it will help their children do better in school. A new wave of research over the past decade has looked at how much parents talk about numbers and shapes with their children, and whether these spontaneous and natural conversations help children learn the subject.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 2, 2025

All studies included confederates; people who were part of the research team, but appeared to be regular participants. They provided either attentive or inattentive behaviors and researchers studied whether those actions spread to others in the learning environment and impacted their behaviors. Show them the studies. McLean, D.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Thanks to discoveries in the fields of organizational psychology and neuroscience, we can gain a better understanding of what human traits or behaviors are best suited for leadership, and why they are of benefit to the organizations and teams these individuals lead.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2022

A few months later, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association testified before a Senate committee that America’s youth mental health system was fundamentally flawed. The research that we do have is inadequate in terms of helping us understand the ways in which the internet and social media affect youth well-being.”

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Research suggests students may simply ignore up to two-thirds of feedback comments and so I’d rather go for a 100 % hit rate where every single student responds to the feedback they receive. A key principle here is that I’m usually only intending to give each student one specific piece of feedback to work on.

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