ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

And she says the stakes for improving classroom teaching are higher than many people realize. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. It contains what are essentially recipes for various active-learning techniques.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to pivot a bit to something equally revolutionary yet rooted in ancient tradition (somewhat)–Socratic Seminars. I’ve got 5 transformative strategies you can use to update Socratic Seminars for today’s learners. What is a Socratic Seminar? Socratic Seminars bring history to life.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to pivot a bit to something equally revolutionary yet rooted in ancient tradition (somewhat)–Socratic Seminars. I’ve got 5 transformative strategies you can use to update Socratic Seminars for today’s learners. What is a Socratic Seminar? Socratic Seminars bring history to life.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

The goal is to stop tethering teaching to “seat time” — where students are grouped by age and taught at a uniform, semester pace — and instead adopt competency-based education, in which students progress through skills and concepts by demonstrating proficiency. According to Baesler, however, “We were too often teaching to a test.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

We have the chance and freedom to choose what we’re doing our datasets on, and he teaches us how we’re going to work and complement it [in] our daily lives.” Stefanie Davison, the district’s first teacher to teach data science, helps senior Emma-Dai Valenzuela (left) at Pacific High School. Statistics at Rancho Campana High School.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

Siwaju is a seminar-style program that gives students a platform to discuss various topics that influence their own lives. The students do most of the teaching, giving them ownership over what they talk about and how they talk about it with one another.”. They have a hand in curating the topics we cover.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. I laughed out loud when one shared, “Parents are co-teaching at home!”. They were listing some of the silver linings that have come with the shift to remote learning in the wake of coronavirus. But it’s not a joke.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching for these programs entails complex processes of translation, during which teachers must remain sensitive to shifting contexts (how Western classics fail to speak to the Chinese context ) and learning outcomes (how a diverse student body can generate unpredictable responses). Could you tell me more about its history? Like a textbook?”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

After finishing school this summer, she’ll participate in a year-long placement to confirm that teaching is the right career for her before going to a technical college. You don’t learn about a job in school,” said Sonja Gryzik, who teaches English, math and career orientation at the school Neriman attends, Ursula Kuhr Schule.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs. She would explain in a way I understood.”.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

I’ve been teaching Psychology at secondary school level for almost two decades. This article discusses routes into teaching the subject. Changing Routes into school teaching It used to be very difficult to get into Psychology teaching at school level. There are also a wide range of resources for A-Level Psychology.

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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. Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. CARLISLE, Penn.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

In another graduate seminar, Fishman assigns only one paper. Fishman was inspired to turn his grading system into a game after reading James Paul Gee’s 2003 book, What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning and Literacy. But students can revise and resubmit it over and over again to earn an A.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Hawkins sees teaching as team effort to that helps young people work and learn cooperatively.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Here is what we learned: Student learning in hybrid and traditional classrooms is comparable. We found that faculty-reported gains in student learning in Teagle-funded hybrid or online courses were comparable to gains in traditional classrooms, in line with research findings to date. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Serena asks Zar-Kessler, a Teach For America alum who previously worked at a school for disabled children in Uganda and is known as “Ms. or 4:30 for senior seminars; many students stick around for homework labs and other activities. In a later seminar, they discuss current events. Classes don’t end until 4:00 p.m.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 18, 2024

The one day seminars we hold around the country provide in-depth learning from document-based discussions, but the experience is amplified during the summer residence program. There’s the obvious benefit of more time than in our one day seminars, with several days to develop your expertise in the topics you’re interested in.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

We should consider asking this question in the context of the traditional classroom. Have our experiences in traditional classroom been stellar? All of us have had great classes in traditional settings and perhaps some that were not. And what are the lessons for teaching – and learning – in the future? Focus on learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” Our academic classes teach us what we need to know,” said Caroline DeGrappo, a senior in the Veterinary Science program.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

She teaches about Nancy Wake, a member of the French Resistance in World War II who evaded the Nazis, sometimes by parachute. And Seamons weaves strengths into the sixth-grade curriculum. Seamons said her students said, “Oh man, she definitely, definitely was an ’Achiever.’ ”. Expense is not the only hurdle.

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Deadline The deadline for submitting ALL proposals for the 2025 Annual Meeting is Friday, April 5, 2024 at 11:59 P.M. (ET).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

While the Newark Honors College still hews to a relatively traditional approach, the Living-Learning Community is redefining from scratch what it means to be an honors student. Honors College students participate in seminars and service projects and take a freshman colloquium. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Yet discussing these documents in the interactive online class sessions energized their teaching practice. Many speak of bringing into their classrooms excerpts of the primary documents they discussed in seminars the night before. Everything I learned in the program has proved immediately useful to my teaching,” they often say.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. 2022) and teaches courses on the World Wars and Modern America for the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

While a larger percentage of high school graduates are going on to higher educations, their actual numbers have declined dramatically, and the number of older-than-traditional-age adults on campus is also down as more are drawn back into the thriving labor market. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

After a year of teaching there, he’d come to believe that he could help any student get into college. His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. Ben Marcovitz was unlike anyone Williams knew.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Moreta teaches the science section in Spanish. Traditional language learning in the U.S. in the language, but they do want to speak,” said Dr. Reisinger, who this spring will teach a French section of a new course, Global Advertising (there is also a section in Spanish). Cómo estás? he offered to students taking seats.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

When Cante donned her purple ribbon skirt, a traditional garment worn by some Native women, to commemorate Indigenous Peoples Day in October, another student approached her. It wasn’t until she picked up a traditional lacrosse stick in seventh grade through the Twin Cities Native Lacrosse league that Nina finally found her sport.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Maitland Jones lost his job teaching organic chemistry at New York University after students signed a petition saying his course was too hard. You know, I’m an old timer, and I believe that there is value in, well, humanities, and a humanistic approach to teaching science. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2025

As a Black Chicana, I vividly remember being the singular student of color in my freshman-year seminar at Michigan State. Underrepresented students also have options other than the traditional elite universities. My experience was not without the awkwardness of questioning my own merit and if I belonged there in the first place.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Centers for teaching and learning worked with IT support in new ways to help instructors move courses online. We also learned empathy, new ways of teaching, how to work remotely online and why being together can be so important. Online teaching is out. Decision-makers and implementors moved quickly.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Use Jigsaw Learning to Boost Student Engagement Jigsaw activities empower students to become experts and teach their peers. ” They return to their home group to teach what they learned. Bonus Tip: Provide structured discussion prompts to guide peer teaching. Socratic Seminars: Student-led discussions on key themes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The other half took one or more of their college classes online as they were also studying in traditional classrooms on a campus. The researchers then argue that these lackluster student results are why lawmakers and regulators shouldn’t relax the rules on colleges that teach online. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2017

“I see teachers who say to me, ‘This is why I got into teaching, not to make sure kids pass the state test,’ ” Gross said. “So So there is a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and a sincere hope to get this right. At the same time, I see teachers who are struggling.”. But we don’t have enough people who know what the best tools are.”.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

To call her teaching “influential” and her work “groundbreaking” feels incommensurate with the profound impact she had on students, colleagues, friends, and scholars worldwide. In Memoriam: Sharon James Information Ar… Mon, 01/01/2024 - 11:15 Image Originally posted at [link].

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