Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

This raises the questions, are we teaching syndemic and how best to do so? Teaching about syndemics provides a cross-disciplinary window on the biosocial making of health that has a distinctly anthropological origin. Why teach syndemics? The post Teaching Syndemics first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions of their lives. The challenge with teaching these skills, however, is time. In the middle is teaching a lesson however you might normally do it.

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The post 14 Effective Teaching Strategies For Inquiry-Based Learning appeared first on TeachThought. One obvious way to promote inquiry learning in your classroom is to design lessons and units that benefit from, promote, or require it.

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TeachThought

JULY 18, 2024

A few thoughts– Teaching is a lot work. It depends on factors, including building and climate, mindset, relationships with parents, student engagement, and classroom management, the function of various standards in your teaching and curriculum, the quality of the PLCs—if they are used in your building—and so on.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 15, 2024

With the growing accessibility of generative AIs, haptic technologies and open-source software, this Teaching Anthropology Special Issue asks; ‘how is anthropological knowledge production changing in this fast growing socio-technological era?’ What is the ‘anthropological text’ in light of generative AI?

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fear of retribution for teaching the truth has created such a chilling effect that an astounding two-thirds of U.S. As we fight the current wave of attacks on teaching and learning, it is critical that educators overcome isolation and ground ourselves in what we are fighting for.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

How this does or doesn’t work varies wildly on everything from the age of the students to your own personality and teaching style and so on. Tone In Teaching And Interactions With Students: 20 Words That Change How Students Think Might This one was one of the most useful words I use as a teacher. To have the desired effect (i.e.,

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TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). Teaching AI theory, for example, is well beyond these ideas. How you teach something depends, obviously, on what you’re teaching. Let’s take a look.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

He also talks about his previous project in education, a free online course he co-teaches called “ Learning How to Learn, ” which is one of the most popular courses ever made, with more than 4 million students signed up over the past 10 years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Others say learning facts is unimportant in the age of Google where we can instantly look anything up, and that the focus should be on teaching skills.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Our approach to teaching data science and data literacy has hardly evolved since I started my teaching career in 1995. Early in my teaching career, we focused on teaching students how to use a dataset to create a bar graph or scatter plot. But it’s practically absent from the way our kids learn.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

Teaching Irish American History Mar. This overview of Irish American history can help you teach students why they see so many Irish influences today. 10, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER You only need to walk into a store and see St Patricks Day decorations to know Irish Americans have profoundly impacted our countrys culture.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself. On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Instead of spending seven to twelve hours per week creating instructional content, access to high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) allows teachers to focus on what truly matters: teaching and engaging students in meaningful, impactful lessons. Materials help students engage in learning opportunities like scholars in social studies.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2025

Lawmakers are trying to restrict teaching honestly about U.S. Help us defend teachers right to teach peoples history. CREDO funding also allows us to defend the right to teach honestly in the face of anti-history education laws. The post Your Vote Defends Teaching Peoples History appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fear of retribution for teaching the truth has created such a chilling effect that an astounding two-thirds of U.S. As we fight the current wave of attacks on teaching and learning, it is critical that educators overcome isolation and ground ourselves in what we are fighting for.

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Teaching History Education 98

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

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

As Weimer (2015) suggests, learner-centered teaching approaches, which prioritize student voice and active participation, can significantly enhance the impact of student discourse. Learner-centered teaching: Five key changes to practice. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. National Academies Press.

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

by Terry Heick Reflection is a fundamental tenet of learning; it is also, therefore, a fundamental part of teaching. Reflection in teaching might look like this: A teacher pausing at the end of a lesson to jot down a quick note: What went well? The Benefits of Reflection The benefits of reflective teaching ripple outward.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Theres no getting around it it takes work to teach students how to write. Tim Donahue teaches high school English at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut. And it takes work for them to do it. It involves knowing which ideas to reject and which to expand upon. It is making the cake not from the box, but from scratch.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 19, 2025

Listen to my interview with Jen Serravallo ( transcript ): Sponsored by Wix Tomorrow and Brisk Teaching This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. Jen Serravallo In her newest book, Teaching Reading Across the Day , she gives us nine research-backed lesson structures for explicitly teaching reading across all content areas.

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NCHE

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

But at the end of the year, Valencia felt that teaching was what she should be doing with her life. “It It made history a part of my life, not just, ‘I’m teaching this subject and I’m going home and doing this and creating this lesson plan.’ And it was just September!” It wasn’t even like, ‘This is supposed to be my job.’

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NCHE

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Jen Jacobs on Multidimensionality, Memorability, and Making History Come Alive A member of our EPiC grant in Michigan, Jen Jacobs, shared her journey into teaching and the impact that journey has left on her since. Sometimes teaching isnt a first job or even a first calling. What better way to spend my life than doing this?

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Civics History Middle School Humanities 246

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 2, 2025

It should be a tool that empowers students to explore, create, and connect, not simply a replacement for traditional teaching methods. Technology plays a vital role in future-proofing learning, but its use must be purposeful and driven by the learner. Ask yourself, how can students use technology to learn in ways that they couldnt without it?

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Cult of Pedagogy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

You were teaching right along, getting things done, and then it started to crumble. And the message were sending when were in this teaching presence is Im serious, and Im credible, and I mean business, and were going to be learning. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? “Its not about having a sour face on.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Listen to my interview with Blake Harvard ( transcript ): Sponsored by Boclips Classroom and Brisk Teaching This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. Sometimes its the smallest details that separate effective teaching from teaching that misses the mark. Today we’re going to look at three of these.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It is not a substitute for teaching and leading but an on-demand support that can help save time and maximize your impact. As you can see, AI can be an invaluable tool for teachers, administrators, and coaches if and only if used after the gaps in practice have been identified.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 30, 2021

The key is to not only rely on this teaching technique as it mainly focuses on providing information and modeling as opposed to active learning. Create opportunities for students to teach each other. The relative benefits of learning by teaching and teaching expectancy. It is a proven way to improve academic outcomes.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

These unprecedented and uncertain times have spawned a paradigm shift in the way teaching and learning are conducted. It is necessary for schools and districts to prepare for quick and seamless direction changes so teaching and learning continuity is maintained.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In the very first minute of my first day teaching at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC, I received a rude awakening. And if you have new lessons to teach, you may struggle to help them catch up. Its important to note here that you dont need to transform your entire classroom or stop teaching the way youre used to.

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NCHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As educators, we apply that lens to our teaching of history whose stories are getting lost and how can we remedy that? NCHE will remain a place of support for you as you seek to teach accurate, inclusive, complex histories. You know your students and your particular teaching situation best. Whose stories add depth and nuance?

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 14, 2021

The stage was set in separate large group sessions described below: In order to fully understand the impact remote learning has on teaching and learning, we must be purposeful in the role we play in supporting and leading teachers in a digital environment. We must inspect what we expect.

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Artifacts Leadership Teaching High School 542

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The science of teaching reading is less clear than the science of reading itself. In 2000, the National Reading Panel, a group of experts assembled by Congress to explore the scientific basis for teaching reading, identified reading fluency as essential for teaching reading.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning in a number of ways. One way it can be used to transform teaching and learning is by providing students with access to a wealth of information, including multimedia resources, educational apps, and online databases.

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Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Teaching Research 535

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?

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Despite my best efforts, I couldn't visit classrooms as frequently as I would have liked, and the feedback I provided in written reports could have done more to enhance teaching and learning both inside and outside the classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

In particular, those who oversee Pre-K teaching and learning shared as a team with concrete examples. It's during times like these, especially when we must open ourselves up to the possibility that continuing to teach in the way "we have always done" may not be what's in the best interests of our students.

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