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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

Edsurge

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

9,16] If educators are unaware how to teach and support multicultural students, they will fail to reach a significant portion of their school. How to Improve Your Cultural Competency as a Teacher. Intercultural Education, 2001, 12(1), pp. Indicator 6: Elementary and Secondary Enrollment. Siwatu, K.O. February 2019.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

edWeb.net

Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages. SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

The Research About Keeping Teachers First, let’s dive into some research about how to help teachers thrive (and not quit teaching.) Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. We have to do better. We have to help and encourage each other. 33) Bartell, C.

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Dave Burgess Talks Student Engagement #MondayMotivation #tlap

The CoolCatTeacher

Michael Matera talks about how to gamify your classroom in Explore Like a Pirate. (One he was awarded the BAMMY for Secondary School Teacher of the Year by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. All techniques and methods are modeled and fully explained so as to leave no doubt about how to apply the methods in the real-world.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

Edsurge

Thille: The Open Learning Initiative, which is the project that I founded at Carnegie Mellon, started with a desire from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to get access to high-quality post-secondary education to those who would not otherwise have access. That was way back in 2001.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. Often, personalized learning includes technology that adapts lessons to students’ needs and provides data so that teachers can see how each learner is growing.