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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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

While some Chinese anthropology departments keep the tradition of extensive collaborative work, One Res presented a more “liberated” version where ideology did not matter, and authority could be challenged. Indeed, openness can hit the limit, while traditional ways of learning have their own merits. Like a textbook?”

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If selected, fellows will give a public lecture on their work, participate in a workshop on their project, participate in a seminar with graduate students relating to their work, and record an episode for the Future of the Past Podcast. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

And in that study, he and his co-authors discovered that no matter what … there was no measure by which traditional learning, by which I mean lectures and what we call seminars, [is as effective.] Active learning wins. He's a huge activist and advocate of active learning.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2024

The lenses of Western modernity – e.g., capitalism, Christianity, democracy, empirical science – surreptitiously shape the study of past cultures in ways that disregard their own claims about their world in favor of those that align with traditions of the Euro-American academy.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The district rolled out the class in fall 2020, in an attempt to offer an alternative math course to students who might struggle in traditional junior and senior math courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. Traditional math curriculum “is essentially focused on preparing students for STEM pathways in college,” Cook said.

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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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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Many speak of bringing into their classrooms excerpts of the primary documents they discussed in seminars the night before. Teachers have three options: they may write a traditional master’s thesis, complete a capstone project, or take the qualifying exam.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). Nor are seniors.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fogel, 18, can recite a list of typical college experiences she has missed out on: study groups, small seminars, office hours with professors, parties, football games, a chance to meet new people from around the world. I was upset and didn’t want to be home at first, but now I’m kind of thankful,” said Asiedu, 18.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

She transferred to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst a year later because she wanted to try the “traditional college thing” — dorms, dining halls and leafy quads. The seminar covers themes relevant to students’ lives, with topics including hip hop and “The Immigrant Experience.” Photo by Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

On Monday I was in charge of TIES’ annual all-day Leadership Seminar. compared to those in more traditional schools]. “I skipped the Vikings game for this workshop and am glad that I did” . Both of those were high praise indeed! and ‘What do we think the leaders of these schools are doing differently?’

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

This high failure rate, coupled with labor market needs, has led policymakers to tweak traditional vocational models to make them more flexible. The figure for students in humanities and natural sciences is even higher, up to 50 percent.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2010

This versatility, allowing parents to receive updates on their own terms, makes Twitter unlike any traditional communication tool that I’ve ever used as a principal. Topics ranged from health and drug awareness seminars to technology. As far as transparency goes, is there any application more effective than Twitter?

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

But perhaps the biggest deviation is that the school has eschewed traditional remedial courses altogether, building that content into its first-year curriculum and giving students whatever extra support they need in the credit-bearing classes. In English, all students are enrolled in a four-strand program called City Seminar.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom. Such cases were even more “soul-sapping” than the rigidities of the traditional education system. ” MAHG seminars, in which teachers work and learn cooperatively, “cause teachers to pause over the documents they teach, thinking them through.

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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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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 4, 2022

You can apply to volunteer using the following link: Volunteer at the Annual Meeting Update 10/4/2023: To view the Program Outline for the 2024 Annual Meeting, please visit the following page: Program Outline This is the schedule of SCS paper sessions, panels, seminars, and workshops at the 2024 Annual Meeting.

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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 had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing. Instead, my attempt to persuade her to write three sentences was a disaster.

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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. We spend the entire year cultivating in them a sense of pride, culminating in their graduation at which they don traditional stoles and are honored as full members of the community.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

College is geared more toward the traditional student,” he said. It prepares men with children for high school equivalency tests and college by providing classes, tutoring, counseling and parenting seminars. But Castillo said that getting a higher education is probably the hardest thing he’s ever done.

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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. This is not meant as a criticism of the traditional classroom. Focus on learning.

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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. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

At my school, Bard High School Early College Cleveland , students finish the traditional four years of high school in their first two years, and the last two years they are both high school students and college students. The seminar-style discussions have improved my relationships with my friends and peers.

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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. Many are older than the traditional 18- to 24-year-olds and have families and jobs; they come to class, but don’t have time to visit the counseling center. Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

In another graduate seminar, Fishman assigns only one paper. In one undergraduate class, Fishman offers a menu of 1.4 million points. Students need to reach 900,000 to get an A. “You could never earn a good grade just by doing dumb stuff,” he said. But students can revise and resubmit it over and over again to earn an A.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In 2001 we described the reinvention of the traditional high school as the “clarion call of our new century.” The team for Cleveland’s JFK Eagle Academy , however, thought its students would benefit from deep, collaborative investigation, so they developed a program focused around Socratic seminars.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. 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. is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a Ph.D.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

I became interested in teaching when I was an undergraduate, through the experience of giving talks to my Honours class and leading small seminars – I found that I enjoyed explaining concepts and research to others. In contrast, those with a joint honours degree combining it with a traditional ‘school’ subject (e.g.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Across the city, 40 percent of traditional public schools had no full-time social worker, city data shows. The DOE also has offered professional development seminars for school staff on how to support students coping with grief and loss, a spokesperson said. De Blasio said he knew about these deficiencies.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

or 4:30 for senior seminars; many students stick around for homework labs and other activities. In a later seminar, they discuss current events. After that, it’s on to classes, which are largely small and discussion oriented and take place in bright rooms with high ceilings. Classes don’t end until 4:00 p.m. So is punctuality.

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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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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.” “I came here for both — the training and the academics,” says Miller, who plans to study biology in college, of her decision to attend Essex Tech.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

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