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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

While many teachers feel that taking a student’s learning style into account can help them succeed, others feel that this theory is about as scientific as a horoscope.[2] In this article, we’ll provide an overview of learning styles and a fair presentation of the research for and against the theory. What Are the Four Learning Styles?

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

In July of 2015, the district paid more than $400,000 for alignment, strategy and professional services from Education Elements, a for-profit personalized learning consultant, according to receipts obtained by EdSurge from the district. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of learner Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching &Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your learners as individuals through differentiated instruction.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction.

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DON’T MISS IT: Teachers Leading Teachers Online Conference Starts Thursday

The CoolCatTeacher

July 16-20, 2015 (Live and Video Recordings Available). I will present Differentiating Instruction with Technology , at 9:30 am EDT Friday. Friday, July 17, 2015. 9:30 am – 10:30 am Vicki Davis – Differentiating Instruction with Technology. Friday, July 17, 2015. Saturday, July 18, 2015.

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SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

Edsurge

We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Here’s how we did it: How smath works.

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Scaling Practice-Based Coaching through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

But there wasn’t a clear path to similarly scale the personalized, job-embedded support needed to transfer that content into practice. Lauren Acree, Policy and Personalized Learning Lead at the Friday Institute, describes this challenge as the implementation gap.

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