Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally. Watching these moments in the field school was eye-opening and convinced us that teaching isn’t just about sharing knowledge; it’s also about keeping our own love for learning alive. Orchard at its core.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2024

Packed with practical examples, research-based strategies, and stories, any educator can find the most effective way to personalize learning. Here is the synopsis: Not Just One Way Are you an educator stuck in the traditional teaching or leadership mold, yearning for a spark to reignite your passion?

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Not only was I not in classrooms enough, but also the level of feedback provided through the lens of a narrative report did very little to improve teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. I made an effort to align every point of critical feedback to current research.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2020

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. They can also free up the teacher to work with those learners who need targeted instruction or extra help.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

“Algebra in eighth grade is a gateway to a lot of further opportunities,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist who studies education at the American Institutes for Research, in a recent webinar. Researchers are trying to understand why so few Black and Hispanic students and low-income students of all races are making it through this early gate.

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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. Flexible Use of Time In many cases, digital tools provide an asynchronous response and inquiry platform, which is impossible in traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. To imagine those futures, the scholars resurrected sustainable lifestyles of the past known from archaeological research and African Oral Histories.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 9, 2020

A recent Chalkbeat article highlighted the results of some surveys that alluded to this issue: And engagement with schoolwork was relatively low across the board, reflecting the challenges of keeping students engaged in a chaotic time and of teaching from a distance. The why matters more than ever in the context of remote learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 17, 2024

This allows you to tailor professional learning opportunities that address specific skill gaps, teaching styles, and career goals (Guskey, 2000). Embrace Choice and Variety Move away from the traditional "sit-and-get" PD model. Educational Researcher, 38(8), 649-664. Offer teachers a diverse menu of learning opportunities.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2024

This approach shifts away from the traditional one-size-fits-all model, allowing students to learn at their own rhythm and delve deeper into concepts that pique their interest. While the book dives deep into theory, research, strategies, and success stories, we wanted to share some insights in a presentation format.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For anyone who has been teaching anthropology over the last two years, the latter will be of no surprise to you. (As As for the former, perhaps someone who has been teaching thirty years can weigh in were students always so careless? Does the teaching environment itself contribute to how students view AI? 2022, among many).

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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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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. where I teach. Based on our extensive research and experience, this is still true.)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For too long, incoming students not deemed fully prepared to do college-level work have had to enter a remediation track intended to teach foundational concepts that institutions assume students haven’t learned yet. More than 20 states have adopted corequisite support to supplement or replace traditional approaches to remediation.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. This was invented by Linda Nilson, who's a legendary faculty developer and thought leader about teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

Two University of California, Berkeley, researchers documented how they tamed AI hallucinations in math by asking ChatGPT to solve the same problem 10 times. At least a teacher has the opportunity to vet what AI spits out before giving or teaching it to students. Researchers grouped similar answers together.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

For many years New Milford High School was just like virtually every other public school in this country defined solely by traditional indicators of success such as standardized test scores, graduation rates, and acceptances to four year colleges. If we can overcome these challenges and experience success others can as well.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available.

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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. When it comes to professional learning that leads to improved outcomes, the research is pretty clear in that it should be job-embedded and ongoing.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Not only was I not in classrooms enough, but also the level of feedback provided through the lens of a narrative report did very little to improve teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. I made the point of aligning every point of critical feedback to current research.

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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 can facilitate debates, research projects, or simulations that challenge students to synthesize information and form new understandings.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

He didn’t teach science. Through our research we came across a device called the mass driver. Mr. 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. We learned science.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

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. The researchers propose that language might have played a key role. Further Reading & Related Research Tattersall, I. Palgrave Macmillan.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while many of the studies showed gains for learners in some cases, the researchers concluded that flipped learning isn’t living up to its promise. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully. The hype is convincing — it’s seductive — but the implementation of the hype is not,” he said. “It

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you’re able to answer these, that’s how you teach data science to third graders—taking what seem like complex or abstract concepts and applying them to tangible elements in students’ lives. How much does it weigh? If you’ve got a cat, same questions apply. What’s the dog-to-cat ratio in your classroom (or office or home)?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Related: Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2024

When Natalia Molina began teaching her second grade students word problems earlier this school year, every lesson felt difficult. I saw how overwhelmed they would get,” said Molina, who teaches at Segue Institute for Learning, a predominantly Hispanic charter school in this small city just north of Providence. CENTRAL FALLS, R.I.

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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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TeachThought

JUNE 5, 2024

If the ultimate goal of education is to teach students to think, then focusing on how we can help students ask better questions themselves might make sense, no? The Purpose of Questions Thought of roughly as a kind of spectrum, four purposes of questions might stand out, from more “traditional” to more “progressive.”

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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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura. Online was going to be disruptive.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally. Watching these moments in the field school was eye-opening and convinced us that teaching isn’t just about sharing knowledge; it’s also about keeping our own love for learning alive. Orchard at its core.

Archaeology 130

Archaeology Teaching Artifacts Anthropology 130

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. Jami Rhue Its differentiating.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. While some students also receive one-on-one remediation, Fisher said that research shows those interventions aren’t enough to close the gap.

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