A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

In studying various pieces of literature on the effect of design, Barrett and Zhang began with the understanding that a “bright, warm, quiet, safe, clean, comfortable, and healthy environment is an important component of successful teaching and learning” (p. Understanding how the learning space itself can affect the way students learn is key.

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Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

About the Authors Shelene Gomes (she/her), PhD teaches Social Anthropology and the Sociology of Culture at the University of the West Indies, St. Lara Watkins (she/her), PhD teaches Anthropology at Bridgewater State University. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

SES has an impact on learning and teachers need to be aware of these impacts if they are going to teach all students. Conclusion Part of teaching high school is preparing students for college. Teaching Sociology, 47(3), 204–218. This shows that the learning experience and its goals are influenced by SES.

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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Designed to enhance the teaching of A-level Sociology, an annual subscription to the Film Club gives you unlimited access to all of our Sociology films (there’s currently around 30 of them). Membership costs just £25+VAT per year and our free 30-day trial gives you complete access to all the films in the library.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Amid bans on teaching Black history and calculated attempts at falsifying history, we all need a recalibration in the importance of telling full stories about America’s past and present. 2021) Dillard’s “Spirit of Our Work” is transformative. King, Ph.D.,

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Can teachers who are teaching an AP course use blended learning models and cover the extensive curriculum? I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology.

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ShortCutsTV

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I always found teaching “the experimental method” in sociology a little dull because there were relatively few examples I could use to illustrate the genre. And most of what were available seemed to be created by psychopaths psychologists.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Alyssa Knight, executive director of the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, which she co-founded while incarcerated, said that for years, educational opportunities in prison were created primarily by people who were incarcerated, who wrote to professors and educators to ask if they might send materials or teach inside the prison.

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ShortCutsTV

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Helpful Professor site offers a range of free Study Guides for both Sociology (115 guides) and Psychology (30 guides) aimed at American University students doing Introductory courses in these subjects (Sociology 101, for example). Each […]

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

For years we have embraced the effective integration of technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. Millan’s Sociology students learned how to use and create their own blog using Blogger from their Gmail accounts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

ethos to her teaching. The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We Students learn at different paces and via different teaching styles, the thinking goes. We watch the show and dissect it.”. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This Teaching Anthropology Special Issue will explore approaches to trauma-informed anthropology and to consider key emerging discussions around trauma-informed approaches more broadly.

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ShortCutsTV

AUGUST 28, 2024

The fact students come to Sociology with a certain level of prior knowledge about the areas they’re studying – from families through education to crime – is something teachers can exploit to demonstrate how sociological knowledge and research can be used to question many of the taken-for-granted assumptions we make about the social world. (..)

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

That tide includes bans on state funding for teaching DEI in schools, public colleges and state agencies. That’s why schools need to broaden the reach of DEI content and protect the instructors and faculty who are responsible for teaching it. Universities can offer professional development to faculty and staff.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We had a really good chat about his work and its importance for sociology but it was also interesting to hear Lisa’s take on his significance for criminology. For episode 2 of the Social Theory Podcast I spoke to Dr Lisa Long about the monumentally important sociologist and activist WEB Du Bois.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, African American teachers were pushed out of schools and out of the teaching profession to make integration more appealing to white families. Over time, teaching came to be a profession dominated by women. This story about a teaching force that better reflects the racial diversity of U.S.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). In addition to these benefits, active learning methods can enhance learners’ experience in classes of mixed ability and knowledge.

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MARCH 31, 2025

I loved teaching there! My passion for teaching and the meaning my life gets from being a scholar outweighed the trauma. I completed thesis research in social behavior of introduced rhesus macaques in central Florida. I was accepted into the University of Arizona and the University of Texas at San Antonio. I chose to attend UTSA.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Interestingly enough, researchers in other sectors (including economics, public health and sociology) have explored similar theories and found that social capital can improve more than just access to higher education and job opportunities, as one might expect. But education just isn’t there yet.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

These often have consequences in education, from an increase in cheating on assignments enabled by prose-spewing chatbots, to experiments that bring AI into classrooms as teaching assistants or even as students. Meanwhile, new technologies seem to flow out in an unstoppable stream. And last year, the U.S.

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 18, 2024

This spin-off from the burgeoning Sociological Detectives Universe™ is a vehicle by which you can simply and not-a-little-secretly introduce a soupcon of Study Skills into what we’re contractually obliged to call “The Student eXperience” (sic).

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

Having communication expectations and procedures in place was helpful when I was teaching. Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00 If something was bothering my student, disciplinary actions, or positive behavior was happening, I would immediately inform the student’s parents. Add to cart AP US Government Course $ 200.00

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Students may come back from recess feeling dissatisfied … feeling excluded,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess ,” when I interviewed her for a story about recess last year. “We

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Norton Learning - Sociology

MARCH 16, 2022

How can faculty support their students’ well-being and resilience while teaching remotely? Dina Radeljas is an associate professor of sociology at Mohawk Valley Community College, in … Continue reading Lessons Learned in a Pandemic—Supporting Students Who Are in Distress while You’re Teaching Remotely

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

Studies learning activity systems (not just one component)—such systems that integrate materials, technologies, supports, teacher professional development, assessments, leadership engagement, and other elements required to change teaching and learning. What Do We Teach When We Teach the Learning Sciences? Where to Learn More.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, if we do a better job teaching our students about economic inequality, we can equip them — our future leaders — with the tools to develop the empathy and the will needed to change the trajectory of the lives of people in crisis. (The Inevitably, this harms our nation’s growth.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

We are two sociology professors who live and do research in New York City. Prerequisite college coursework should include classes like Urban Sociology and Race and Ethnic Relations. One of us is a retired NYPD detective. Like much of the country, our city has seen many protests against police brutality.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

However, minority teachers are more likely than their non-minority colleagues to work in hard-to-staff schools, and are also more likely to leave those schools or the teaching field overall. If we could just improve the retention, we could increase the size of the minority teaching force all the faster,” Ingersoll added.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Related: Teaching to the student, not the test. Aaron Pallas is Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Writing in September , though, she announced that states could not count on waivers for the 2020-21 school year, and should plan to assess their students with the customary tests.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

During my college teaching career, I worked closely with several theater majors, smart people who did well in calculus class, but who dreamed of becoming actors in New York or Los Angeles. Very few of my own sociology students became professional sociologists. Four years spent studying them carefully will generate priceless returns.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s time we got off the sidelines to better explain and market to the public the prodigious value to teaching, innovation and the greater good that we offer. economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I teach at a K-8 school, and when I look at these seventh and eighth graders, they’re no different than the kindergarteners,” said Robert Lane, a STEM teacher at the Sierra Verde STEAM Academy in Glendale, Arizona. Credit: Tom Sandner for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s a practice that has gone on for years, but teaching experts say it intensified during pandemic campus shut-downs, when students were looking for ways to connect. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Amy Stuart Wells is a professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she directs Reimagining Education : Teaching, Learning and Leading for a Racially Just Society, and a member of the New York City Mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group (SDAG).

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

1995) ‘The rise of surveillance medicine’ Sociology of Health & Illness, 17(3): 393-404. This will involve discussion of psychological, psychiatric and neuroscientific therapies, experiments and scans which have modelled our consciousness and ultimately what it means to be a human being in profoundly different ways. Armstrong, D.

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