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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Through interesting, relatable scenarios and real-life simulations around topics like financial literacy and social-emotional learning, teachers can easily bring the real world into their classrooms. Everfi sponsored this post. Grade Level: 6-8.

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3 Ways to Be a Less Stressed Educator

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How are you doing, educators? While that can be typical, we also want to consider the habits that will help us teach long-term with a high quality of life. Are you stressed? Today will be a refreshing encouragement for educators everywhere.

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Sown To Grow: Easily Blend Goal-setting and Reflection into Classwork

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Many of the existential guides for teaching (such as Habits of Mind , the Socrative Method , and Mindfulness ) promote a student-driven growth mindset as fundamental to successful learning. Students and teachers are accustomed to checklists and grading scales. Teachers monitor progress and performance while coaching from the sidelines.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

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I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Some students will blossom more online than in a class of 25. This can get lost in the online exchange between teacher explanation and student response. Check out my Booking Page . Thanks so much.

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6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun

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20 wpm means they know most key placements by touch. Most teachers roll out typing with a graduated program like Type to Learn. Everything is on auto-pilot with little intervention from the teacher. When you teach typing, the goal isn’t speed and accuracy. 30 wpm is the low end of not interfering with thinking.

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6 Ways to Make Classroom Typing Fun

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20 wpm means they know most key placements by touch. comment on Discussion Boards and blogs. journal in blogs and online tools like Penzu. research online (type addresses into a search bar). take online quizzes (like PARCC, SB). use online tools for core classes (Wordle, Animoto, Story Creators).

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Change Agents: Tech & Learning?s Most Influential People in EdTech In 2018

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He also brings what he calls the “underestimated power” of his generation to leverage their native milieu, the virtual world, to organize and effect change. Hoth says that the support teachers give is fundamental for student success. “I His generation, Hoth says, has “used technology and underestimation to our advantage.

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