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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

Establish a learning community where all learners are seen as having value in our classroom Getting to Know Learners One of our primary goals at the beginning of the school year should be to get to know our students. 2009). ( Community Building in the Classroom ). This is important for several reasons.

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307: Elevating Media Literacy Through Screen Language: Insights from Sherard Duvall

The Thinking Stick

Join him on a journey where the power of human connection meets the magic of screen language. Duvall encourages teachers to incorporate media literacy into their classrooms, providing resources and suggestions on how to get started. In 2013, he became the Director of Media Education at the Nickelodeon Theatre in Columbia, SC.

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PROOF POINTS: 5 Questions for Daniel Koretz

The Hechinger Report

Perhaps nothing has remade American education so profoundly in my lifetime as the 2001 federal law that required states to assess all students every year. Alice Rivlin was the director, and she asked for a meeting with me and my immediate boss. We have to start by saying, what do we really want to see when we walk into a classroom?

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Will Philadelphia Education Survive?

Philly Teacher

Overflow crowd from the August 15, 2013 SRC meeting. Here is a run-down: 2001. My role is to support classroom teachers whose classrooms have gone over the legal limit. We survive a poor school climate with fights breaking out regularly and many unruly classrooms. February 2009.

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

Beginning teachers’ practice is enhanced further when their mentors also receive formal training and are released from some of their own classroom duties to provide one-to-one observation and coaching in the classroom, so they can demonstrate effective methods and help new teachers solve problems of practice.(33) 24) Jackson, C.

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Will Philadelphia Education Survive?

Philly Teacher

Overflow crowd from the August 15, 2013 SRC meeting. Here is a run-down: 2001. My role is to support classroom teachers whose classrooms have gone over the legal limit. We survive a poor school climate with fights breaking out regularly and many unruly classrooms. February 2009.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

How do we best help them to understand the value of new technology and how it might benefit their students lives (rather than how might it help my fit into their classroom). Attention When we relate the relevance of using emergent technology in the classroom we must describe how adoption is advantageous. Moore’s Law – Investopedia.”