Moler's Musing

MARCH 24, 2025

Easy and Hard Topics in Social Studies Ive realized that not all content is created equal when it comes to complexity. Some social studies topics are naturally easier for kids to access, while others require more mental lifting. If so, I probably dont need to add too much else (extraneous load).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Too few parents and teachers are talking about race, gender and other identity traits with children often enough, which means they are missing out on critical opportunities to teach children to become tolerant of differences from an early age.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Does a sixth-grade teacher have the same skills and tools to teach reading that a second or third grade teacher does? Maybe you can do that in social studies. This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. The far majority of educators we spoke with described these past years as the hardest they’ve ever faced in sometimes decades of teaching and administration.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 8, 2024

How to Teach Children Goal Setting Jan. Track Goals with Checkpoints and Journals One way to teach your students to track their goals is to have them draw a timeline with little checkpoints along the way of things to accomplish. Using checkpoints is a great opportunity to teach your students that small steps can lead to big changes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

When puberty hits, the brain reorganizes dramatically, said Laurence Steinberg, a professor of psychology at Temple University, who specializes in adolescence. Teachers say they can see the toll social isolation is taking on their students. Related: Why the preteen years are a critical period for brain development.

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Middle School Psychology Humanities Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

They had no confidence that they would be able to teach him.” Even as California enacted the ban, IQ tests became central across the country to the relatively young and rapidly expanding field of school psychology. I think about it 10 years later and it still makes me want to cry,” said Barlow.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

The Empowered Educators international study from Linda Darling-Hammond finds that the process of teacher training and certification is quite centralized in the high-performing systems studied, with a small number of degree-granting institutions: a single teacher training institution in Singapore, eight in Finland and nine in Alberta.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Schools that implement comprehensive emotional learning and well-being programs saw a 10% reduction in absenteeism rates within a single academic year, according to a 2019 Journal of Educational Psychology study. Wellness is a Community Effort Educators are not teaching children on their own, though. Jones, M., Mindful Schools.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 7, 2024

7, 2024 • By Debbie Bagley Play-based learning is a teaching method that gives children opportunities to explore and engage in joyful hands-on activities. There are both psychological and physiological reasons why hands-on learning is so effective at information retention. Play-Based Learning Activities to Try This Fall Oct.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Solórzano and Lindsay Pérez Huber contextualize these harmful lived experiences through vivid storytelling and rigorous research,⁴ illuminating their lasting physical, psychological and social consequences. American Psychological Association. ⁷ Critical race and education scholars like Daniel G. Racism and health. Alsaidi, S.,

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Students can take their artifacts home, share what they learned with their families, and teach younger siblings. Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. Current Directions in Psychological Science , 27 (5). Frontiers in Psychology , 10.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 9, 2023

As a social studies teacher, I’m always looking for patterns. I had to teach it about the various Depth of Knowledge Levels, but that was easy. Command: DOK Level 2 Explanation + Generate 3 DOK Level 2 Multiple Choice Questions appropriate for junior US History students studying the Cold War. Constantly.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Addressing the psychological and spiritual aspects of healing was important as well. Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

You give so much of yourselves, yet no matter how much energy, passion, and preparation poured into teaching and caring for students, you feel the work is never done. We see you caring for and teaching our youth how to be good citizens, find things to get excited about, how to be curious, problem solve, and strive to be their best selves.

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Primary Sources Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2021

Critical race theory is insurgent thinking that draws from scholars who have spoken about the need to teach the complexities of our history. Bans on teaching critical race theory must not be allowed to stop the demands that whiteness come to grips with its mythmaking and disinformation. From Mary McLeod Bethune to W.E.B.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

If you’re reading this and you teach math, history, science, foreign language, art, or any other subject, I want to make a compelling case for the powerful impact that writing can have in your class and on your students. Teachers outside of English or language arts may feel it is not their responsibility to teach writing.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

She told the students she planned to teach them how to make hudut, a traditional dish of coconut milk, herbs, plantains, and fish. A local musician arrived and told the kids he’d teach them to play the Garifuna spiritual rhythm, a beat called the HunguHungu. It was a whole uproar in the country for about two months. Martinez asked.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. Teaching was not my initial goal. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. This year there may be as few as 19.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In surveys, teachers also predicted that students with obesity weren’t good in other subjects such as math and social studies. “To Related: One state mandates teaching climate change in almost every subject – even PE Covid, which hit during the spring of Stephanie’s eighth grade year, was a welcome interruption.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

Not when she left the small town of Cameron, Texas, located about 73 miles northeast of Austin, to get her bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies at Prairie View A&M University. Or when she graduated from Texas A&M with a master’s degree in educational psychology. She loved her job in the school system.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

Lemoine, who teaches at Dr. Norman W. The opportunity for full-day K should be available for all,” said Harris Cooper, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. But those things all fell into place with some extra planning and “what we learned about were the unanticipated social-emotional benefits,” Paradis said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Not only did Caleb never return to his local school, but he learned little throughout his elementary, middle and high school years — which included hundreds of hours struggling through computer lessons in math, science and social studies. Some of this helped. Classrooms were off a hallway with locked doors at both ends.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. We live in a rural area; it’s out in the middle of nowhere,” she said. “We We don’t have the staff.

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