The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

Seminar discussions on Zoom, Teams or Google Hangouts can be lively, lectures can be understood, and breakout sessions and team projects can be completed. The problem wasn’t just the platform, it was my own limitations as a creative teacher. Still, many students want nothing more than to be back on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

The thought is so alluring that parents often ask early education teachers what the best apps are, said Lisa Guernsey, speaking at the national seminar of the Education Writer’s Association in Nashville this week. Photo by Jennifer Dev. What happens when it [screen time] means talking with Grandma?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Kanold, an award-winning educator, author and national thought leader in mathematics and professional learning communities (PLCs), has co-authored numerous best-selling books and conducted professional development seminars worldwide.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. But what is it, exactly?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Among the groups trying to change such childhood messages is an American Psychological Association task force aimed at getting teachers and others to better understand boys and their educational needs. “[R]igid The community college is trying to increase its enrollment of men. Just 7 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When she walked into his first-year seminar at Dickinson College, Steve Riccio was impressed by his new student’s enthusiasm. For example, it found, more than 70 percent of faculty and staff didn’t feel qualified to recognize signs of psychological distress in student veterans. Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones, senior vice provost for undergraduate studies at Temple University, and Paul Tough, author of the upcoming book, “Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,” presented some promising solutions this month during a session at the Education Writers Association’s National Seminar at Boston University.

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Jonathan Firth

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The psychology of human memory can help us to answer this question. Forgetting is fast A classic finding in experimental psychology – dating back over one hundred years – is the forgetting curve. This error is found in the world outside of the psychology lab, too. It is not intuitive. References Dempster, F.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

psychology class. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. Strangers introduced themselves when she sat in the courtyard.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective. Thomas, John Dollard, Erik Erikson, Abram Kardiner, Henry A. Murray and by a growing circle of anthropologists Ralph Linton, A.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

These structures exist in first-year writing seminars at many colleges, where students get dedicated tutoring and institutional resources to help them succeed. The current environment breeds exclusion and deception, which is commonplace in these classes even if you’ve turned a blind eye.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. They also studied the psychology of trauma, wrote their own trauma narratives and had the opportunity to meet Fidel. ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. — It was 7:58 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

At the first section meeting in early September, 16 students — heritage speakers and language learners — chattered in Chinese and English as they crowded into a seminar room. But Guo, a double major in psychology and the College of East Asian Studies, wanted to tackle Chinese philosophy in Chinese.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Supalla also treated her staff to lunches and hosted seminars on mental health and financial planning to address their personal concerns. “If We need psychological support, we need help with our kids. If an adult isn’t healthy and in the right mindset, then they’re not going to be help for the children,” she said.

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