ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.
Cult of Pedagogy
APRIL 13, 2025
Rather than piling up points and calculating averages, students work toward proficiency in these durable skills, and their progress is tracked over time by every teacher. All of (the teachers) are assessing reading artifacts, writing artifacts, research artifacts, Messer explains, with the same rubric across our building.
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ED Surge
JANUARY 21, 2025
She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. So research skills, those foundational skills, are a part of it, and that involves parts of a book. Its the best-kept secret in education, to be a school librarian, Rhue says with pride.
A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 22, 2016
BYOD enhances learning, increases productivity, allows students to grow their research skills, and gives teachers the chance to teach appropriate digital responsibility. Employing the energy surrounding personal devices allows them to use the tools that help them do what they do better.
Catlin Tucker
MAY 18, 2020
This project is designed to drive higher-order thinking, develop research skills, and encourage reflection. Once they have decided on the question they would like to investigate, they self-pace through the parts of the project and use the slide deck below to document their learning. Below is the project template.
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 17, 2017
In fact, they just completed a detailed six paragraph research paper on an environmental problem of their choice. This paper took them about 3 weeks to write from the time they started their research to when they finished their final draft and works cited page. We spent a significant amount of class time working on these papers.
Catlin Tucker
JUNE 12, 2019
For example, if we are researching Elizabethan England to complement our reading of Romeo and Juliet , I invite students to decide what aspect of that period most interests them–the plague, entertainment, fashion, gender roles, musical instruments, the monarchy–and research that topic.
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