ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available. Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Teaching Anthropology. Human Organization.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

These days, computing power and algorithms have advanced to the level where neuroscience and AI are helping to inform each other, and even challenge our traditional understanding of what thinking is all about, he says. What has really been revealed is that we don't understand what ‘understanding’ is,” says Sejnowski. “We

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

But We Can’t Teach? This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth. At least 44 states have passed or proposed legislation to prohibit teaching about structural racism.

Teaching 145

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This summer I read Starr Stackstein’s book Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School. In her book, Stackstein chronicles her journey ditching grades in a traditional school setting and offers some excellent strategies a teacher can use to go gradeless.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With schools facing the challenges of remote learning, different learning styles, and changing dynamics, video teaching strategies have become an important tool for teachers. While watching videos can be passive, video teaching strategies engage students in active learning.

Teaching 52

Teaching Education K-12 Critical Thinking 52

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The more I learn about situated learning theory, developed by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, the more I find myself reflecting on the sharp contrast between authentic learning and the design of traditional schools and curriculum.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With schools facing the challenges of remote learning, different learning styles, and changing dynamics, video teaching strategies have become an important tool for teachers. While watching videos can be passive, video teaching strategies engage students in active learning.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2024

When Natalia Molina began teaching her second grade students word problems earlier this school year, every lesson felt difficult. I saw how overwhelmed they would get,” said Molina, who teaches at Segue Institute for Learning, a predominantly Hispanic charter school in this small city just north of Providence. CENTRAL FALLS, R.I.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As a former science teacher and instructional coach, though, he was looking for a way to deliver the teachings of tribal elders to a broader audience via distance education. But he wasn’t having much success using traditional streaming video. So I didn't want to be the one teaching on these videos. he wondered.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

We can do this by investing in, supporting and leveraging the unique role of educator preparation programs at minority-serving institutions, which have a long and successful track record of preparing diverse educators to persist and thrive in teaching. They are still struggling. Related: Widen your perspective.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. For decades, the primary methods for teaching students how to read in the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 18, 2015

Understanding how they are impacting teaching and learning will help guide your consideration of which tools are useful and how to best implement them. This is true for both online classrooms as well as “blended” classrooms, those integrating online and digital tools into a traditional learning setting.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

But actually this tradition of thought goes way back at least to an ancient Chinese text. There is a really wonderful organization called the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization that offers tons of resources and holds lots of webinars and in-person events and trainings for teachers to teach philosophically.

Teaching 145

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2024

Here is the synopsis: Not Just One Way Are you an educator stuck in the traditional teaching or leadership mold, yearning for a spark to reignite your passion? Where the rigid structures of traditional education give way to flexible, student-centered learning environments.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

“We’ve always done it this way” implies legacy and tradition, which can be good. I talk a lot about disruptive teaching and paradigm shifting in teaching and learning not because I’m inherently rebellious, or some kind of academic anarchist.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

We look for the traditional comforts that elicit memories of the past, and search for something new to add to our tables. Our teaching pipeline is actively broken and rebuilding it will take decades. It is that time of year when we look for recipes that can fill our stomachs and warm our hearts. Where are you baking ?

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2024

This approach shifts away from the traditional one-size-fits-all model, allowing students to learn at their own rhythm and delve deeper into concepts that pique their interest. In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, traditional one-size-fits-all approaches often leave many students behind, leading to disengagement and frustration.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. Wieman has led efforts to improve science teaching. Well, I always hesitate to use myself as data.

Teaching 122

Teaching Research Tradition Cultures 122

Living Geography

APRIL 7, 2024

There is a considered critique of a number of concepts and theories in education, as well as some of the traditional ways of 'doing things'. What role might geography teaching play? It's a very readable book which belies the scholarship underpinning its arguments - which are set out with admirable clarity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Related: Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

Civic Engagement 141

Civic Engagement Civics Teaching Middle School 141

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

15 Alternatives To Report Cards In The K-12 Classroom by TeachThought Staff Like lunchboxes (or brown paper sacks), field trips, and textbooks, report cards are iconic–symbols of traditional classrooms and traditional approaches to education. May require significant changes in teaching practices and assessment methods.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Building a toolbox of teaching strategies can help educators meet the needs of students and bring social studies to life. When teaching about a social studies topic, consider how you might engage students in learning about the topic. This type of pre-teaching activity helps introduce concepts while actively engaging students.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At a time when we are witnessing yet another political battle to restrict students and young people from learning about Black history, I want to remind us all that learning and teaching Black history shouldn’t be a matter of choice or convenience – it is a necessity. For me, the ability to teach Black history is a matter of life and death.

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History Teaching Artifacts K-12 105

Zinn Education Project

JULY 10, 2024

Thanks to a generous donation of books by Haymarket Books , we can offer you a copy of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance for your story on teaching about a related lesson.

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Teaching History Tradition Education 59

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. How did that go?

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ED Surge

MARCH 30, 2023

Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. The way you modeled how to avoid binary thinking has stayed with me into my adult years, and I have done my best to incorporate this discipline into my teaching. Let’s continue this tradition.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. The old ways of teaching seemed to leave students without an understanding of the importance of math for their chosen field. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

This past summer, I had the opportunity to observe district leaders, teachers, and university supervisors from TeachOregon’s Salem-Keiser Teacher Preparation Collaborative as they trained new mentor teachers in the effective co-teaching of new residents. Third, there’s teaching quality. Planning is the second theme that loomed large.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 26, 2020

We also talk about the advice I have for teachers trying to find their footing teaching in an entirely online environment. I’ve had the opportunity to be a traditional teacher, a blended learning teacher, and an online professor. I know that teaching in each of those environments requires a specific skill set.

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Teaching Tradition Education 183

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2023

Today I teach biology at a private high school in New York City; I’ve also taught math for the past six years. I no longer struggle to understand the fundamental concepts of calculus, but I’ve chosen not to teach the course. Despite all this time and effort to teach kids calculus, very few students even consider majoring in math.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When Steven Chan founded Goodnotes, he was a student at the time, and so his commitment to understanding the teaching and learning experiences of the community he built was essential to his mission, which is to revolutionize the way ideas are shaped and amplified. Remove grading for non-end-of-year assessment work.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

This work requires a depth of discipline and perseverance from our students that can at times be difficult to foster within the limits of traditional instruction. The white picket fence, two kids, and the traditional nine-to-five workday are quickly losing their appeal. The American Dream no longer exists as Gen Xers know it to be.

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Teaching Tradition Pedagogy Professional Development 105

ED Surge

MARCH 2, 2023

Colleges found new ways of scaling, rethinking how teaching is done online. teach remote students. The institution was built with online in mind, and focuses on a so-called competency-based teaching method, where students work at their own pace and get credit when they show they know the material. It turns out he was right.

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