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

User Generated Education

I want students to learn about one another in a personal way. I want to learn about my individual students so my instructional strategies can be more personalized and tailored to their needs and interests. You will be expected to engage in the learning activities during class time. You will be an active learner.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

After completing undergraduate school in 2001, I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher at various Oregon districts. Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland.

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Meet the Support Network Addressing Out-Of-School Challenges for Every Student

Edsurge

Steadman, who teaches at Mendell Elementary School in this highly-diverse Boston neighborhood, passed along her concerns to a colleague, Madeline Gillespie, a family support coordinator. Gillespie spoke with the girl’s mother and learned they were living in a shelter and had no way to get to school.

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PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring

The Hechinger Report

A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. This week marks a full year since many school buildings around the country closed and the pandemic changed the way our children learn. Credit: Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.

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How to Transition from Summer Break to the First Days of School

Waterford

By preparing in advance, you can help your students return to school excited and ready to learn. 8] Send an email or text within the days leading up to school so that you have at least some connection before you meet them.[9] Creating a positive classroom experience for your students can shape the rest of their academic year.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

Significant setbacks are especially likely for the most vulnerable students — kids with disabilities and those living in poverty, who didn’t have a computer, a reliable internet connection or a workspace to learn at home. When the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor students who were behind.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

I was inspired to write this post because of the soon to be released episode 536 (to be released on August 5, 2019 ), where a third-year teacher, Edwin Thomas Minguela, and I talk about the lessons he’s learned in his first two years of teaching. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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