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Conflict Resolution Techniques You Can Use in Your Classroom

Waterford

Conflict: It’s great for drama, and an inescapable part of human progress, but it can make for fraught situations in the classroom. Conflict can happen even in the most supportive, positive, and open classrooms, disrupting your students’ ability to learn. But there are concrete steps you can take to settle problems in the classroom.

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Redesigning the educational model after COVID

eSchool News

When we unpack that question in totality, it will require all stakeholders and classroom practitioners to examine the elements embedded within our instructional systems. Our instructional and assessment methods must eradicate the real and perceived barriers of disparities that prevent us from reaching every student.

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The Value of Listening in the Classroom: How to Teach Your Students Active Listening

Waterford

In school, one example of active listening would be a student waiting their turn and considering what their peers have to say before stating their opinion in a classroom discussion. A classroom example of passive listening? Provide students with an opportunity to model active listening skills by holding regular classroom meetings.[7]

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How to help children develop executive functioning skills

eSchool News

And yet, there is a set of skills that’s not given enough attention in the classroom: Executive functioning. . While executive functioning is starting to gain some deserved attention in the classroom, parents can have a huge impact on the growth of these skills for their children. education system imparts on our youth.

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Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Some of these reasons according to Blazer include: - Review and reinforce materials learned in class - Check students understanding and assess their skills and knowledge - Enhance students study skills - Provide students with learning opportunities where they can use their newly acquired skills to explore new insights. Epstein, J. Warton, P.

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PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students 

The Hechinger Report

That was the idea behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Another pair of researchers also reviewed studies on the use of data analysis in schools, much of which is produced by assessments throughout the school year, and reached the same conclusion. Why doesn’t data analysis work?

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4 Steps for Designing an Online Assessment for Flipped Classroom

Fractus Learning

Are you thinking about designing an online assessment for a Flipped classroom? First, consider whether the tool you are thinking about is the right tool for what you want to assess. Second, does this online assessment align with the rest of the course curriculum. 2002) and used by other academics (e.g.