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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

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Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? According to the study, learners who only received teacher training and did not engage with the online learning tools had poorer achievement scores. Teachers enjoy a boost in student engagement The use of interactive technology helps make lessons fascinating.

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How to Build Lifelong Learners

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We can’t teach students everything they’ll ever need but what we can inspire them to be lifelong learners, to know how to figure something out when it slaps them in the face. How do you create lifelong learners? Start the year by infecting students with the excitement of learning without deadlines, clocks, and rules.

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

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What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Anonymous In my experience, it’s true that small classes provide greater opportunities for student engagement and for professor/mentor relationships to occur. It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material.

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Do It Right the First Time: How to Maximize Your Edtech Investment

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Commit wholeheartedly to professional development Professional development offers many benefits —an expanded knowledge base, confidence boosts, support for setting and achieving goals, and overall improvement of craft. Once you’ve found the right tech, the real fun begins. Get ready for implementation. did just that.

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How Culturally Responsive Education Affects Student Engagement and Learning

MindSpark

When I became a teacher, I knew I wanted to create engaging, creative, and rigorous learning experiences for my students but it wasn’t until I read Doctor Adeyemi Stembridge’s Culturally Responsive Education that I felt I knew EXACTLY how to do it. Why should you read this book?

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How to Keep Student Minds Open to New Worldviews Even When Campus Is Closed

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Interfaith friendships seem to form when students engage with peers of other worldviews both formally and informally, such as while socializing or using a shared interfaith space on campus. In fact, colleges are intentionally designed—as both locations and experiences—to foster sustained, novel social interactions.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. From a broader perspective, this discussion about prior knowledge also underscores the need for personalized learning approaches.