The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I Social science does not support that.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Implement and Assess: Implement the chosen options in your teaching practice and assess their effectiveness in helping students apply and transfer their learning. Review and Customize: Review and customize the chatbot’s suggestions to meet your classroom context and student needs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge. That tide includes bans on state funding for teaching DEI in schools, public colleges and state agencies. California is leading the way by requiring the teaching of ethnic studies at the secondary level.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2015

Interested in more technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Just in time for summer reading! I’m always on the look out for great resources to support reading.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

For example, a teacher assessing the California English Language Arts argumentative writing standard for grade 7 may want to start the year focused on teaching the structure of argumentative writing and focus their rubric on claim, evidence, and explanation since that is what they will focus on at the start of the year.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 24, 2024

Many students thought they were dodging science by taking a social sciences course. By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada My first-year anthropology students are often surprised to learn they will be studying biology as part of their introduction to anthropology.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Andrea Queeley teaches her course about societies and cultures of the Caribbean at Florida International University. The crisis begs the question: When there’s only so much money and only so many students, how should universities decide what to teach and not teach?

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Living Geography

APRIL 7, 2024

What role might geography teaching play? Positioning geography teaching in relation to major global challenges, author Steve Puttick argues that the subject has a unique role to play through its ability to think across natural and social sciences in equipping young people with the skills and knowledge they need to respond.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Michael Brintnall Teaching and Learning Award supports faculty attendance at the Teaching and Learning Conference and is named in honor of former APSA Executive Director Michael Brintnall, who was deeply committed to advancing the scholarship of teaching and learning in the discipline.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The purpose of this symposium is to share approaches to the teaching of human rights and to develop pedagogical materials for the discipline. APSA Teaching & Learning Symposium: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy Date: Thursday, June 19 – Saturday, June 21, 2025 Location: APSA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

With humanities and social science degree completions declining over the past 10 years, college liberal arts programs should consider sharing new U.S Census Bureau salary and industry data to teach prospective students about the programs’ strong economic returns. percent between 2020 to 2030. percent from 2020 to 2030.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. But it’s hardly a foregone conclusion.

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ED Surge

MAY 11, 2023

There’s an emotional toil of realizing that you have to reinvent teaching." — Kevin Yee Other efforts announced by educators in recent weeks include: New York University’s Center for Responsible AI and the New York Public Library are launching the All Aboard! There’s an emotional toil of realizing that you have to reinvent teaching.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Many writing centers are already jumping in to experiment with new AI tools, making the case both for the continued importance of writing instruction and for their place on campus as a hub for teaching AI literacy. “I Why do we need a required writing course if AI can do everything outside stakeholders want such a course to teach?,”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s a global initiative, with China launching a new educational Center , and Korean mathematics educators evaluating the practices for teaching mathematics in Korea. At Northwestern University, seven quarter-long courses in social science or humanities are required for engineers. The post An Ode To STEM?

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

She began her academic career in the political science department at Washington University in Saint Louis. In the Fall of 2013, she joined the politics faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She specializes in American politics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2020

In Chicago, where I teach, we recently learned that our first semester will be entirely virtual. Even amid my worries, I’m excited to further hone this new way of teaching and develop tools for asynchronous learning, which offers students the flexibility to learn in real-time and at their own pace. And so many other teachers.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Alternatively, the National Youth Leadership Council defines service-learning as “an approach to teaching and learning in which students use academic and civic knowledge and skills to address genuine community needs. Personally, I believe that teaching SEL as a stand-alone is poor pedagogy.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

But separate from that hype, virtual reality is already being used at colleges in ways that seem more mainstream, as a tool that has the potential to enhance teaching and learning. Not everyone is sold on the idea that virtual reality technology could or should bring higher education into a future of avatars and holograms.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

Dalgaard, a senior researcher at VIVE—The Danish Centre for Social Science Research, initially found over 2,000 studies on special education inclusion. Schools tend to keep children with milder disabilities in a regular classroom and teach only those with the most severe disabilities separately.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. Department of Education), the National Science Foundation and two private foundations. Content is hard.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Committee members were among the students leading a walkout in the wake of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; students on the committee are also focused on teaching their peers about organizing effectively and understanding the reasons for the protests.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In the News Preservice teachers enhanced their teaching competencies in 11 of 14 categories using Edthena’s Video Coaching platform. This data comes from an independent study published in Nature’s “Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.” Read the full article below.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Lower teaching quality offset gains that might have been achieved from the smaller classes. Changing how teachers teach can sometimes be more powerful than how many students are in the classroom. The new job openings attracted veteran educators. Many switched from high-poverty to wealthier schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

We start teaching “ Manhattanville Together … at a Distance: Coming Together as a Community in the Age of Covid-19 ” on July 6 to 96 incoming first-years. In decades of teaching,” Megan Cifarelli, the course facilitator, shared with the group we assembled, “I’ve never experienced anything like this.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

High school data science classes, which teach how to use statistical methods and programming to query and analyze real-world data, are a budding development. A handful of states — Ohio , Oregon and New Jersey among them — are piloting high school data science courses or adding them to their K-12 math standards.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Seeing a diverse teaching force at the helm of the classroom showed me that teaching was a viable career for a black student in Detroit, and they inspired me to follow my dream of becoming a teacher. It was the right program for preparing me to teach in Chicago. They also looked like me: They were black men. Pay teachers more.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

It took Jasmine Lane five years to discover and fulfill her passion for English literature and teaching — but a year and half to burn out. In a state with 96 percent of its teaching staff being white, choosing teaching was to be no different,” the 27-year-old high school teacher in Minneapolis wrote in her blog this winter. . …

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. But Boaler has become the public face of nontraditional teaching ideas in math. It’s often not as precise as the hard sciences or even social sciences like economics. Instead, she focused on changing classrooms.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

Deepak Cheenath That puts CoCo’s strategies to keep students engaged or motivated to learn at complete odds with what many edtech companies have been trying to do to teach literacy or STEM — mimic online games like Robolox or Minecraft that children spend hours immersed in outside of school. No one wants to be at the bottom of a leaderboard.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Join APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students for a 90-minute virtual workshop introducing best practices and strategies for incorporating these social science research platforms into your scholarship.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A recent explosion of research from the neurobiological, behavioral, and social sciences has illuminated new knowledge about how children learn. Teaching the way children learn – through active experiences with materials and relationships and through multiple modalities– is a central tenet of a high quality learning environment.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The paradigm of persistent problems Mary Kennedy’s seminal (2015) paper “Parsing the practice of teaching” sets out the idea that every teacher, no matter their experience, expertise or context, faces the same persistent problems of teaching. Script a short teaching sequence to perform. Parsing the practice of teaching.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Explore examples of how computational thinking can appear across the curriculum for all ages in our latest video : Rather than standalone classes, like computer science electives and AP courses, computational thinking leverages certain problem-solving strategies in order to amplify and enhance lessons in core content areas.

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