article thumbnail

Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

For example, most teachers understand that having a culturally responsive classroom is important but lack strategies to implement it.[14] As an example, non-white students are disproportionately assigned to special education classes, in part because teachers do not understand their differing cultural values or background.[3].

Strategy 200
article thumbnail

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

Waterford

You could send a weekly newsletter email, for example, or reminder texts can be helpful. 7] You could, for example, schedule math and reading lessons during the same time each day or plan a recurring activity for your students (like freewriting or a class read-aloud) every morning. Parent Communication and Involvement. Peters, S. “I

How To 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Study: Holding Kids Back A Grade Doesn’t Necessarily Hold Them Back

MindShift

Guido Schwerdt of the University of Konstanz in Germany, Martin West of Harvard, and Marcus Winters of Boston University, followed the fates of almost a million Florida students who were in third grade in 2002-2003. ” On the other hand, he adds, the worst fears of critics were not borne out by the results.

Study 50
article thumbnail

Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. SchoolNet helped many of these districts—and benefitted as well.

Kaplan 162
article thumbnail

A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

For example, a graduate with an associate’s degree in accounting may be competent for recording inventory, but not creating a company’s tax return. It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002).

Groups 52
article thumbnail

The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

and provide some examples of current pedagogical practice using the Social Web. van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution.

Wiki 62
article thumbnail

The changing Web

Learning with 'e's

Van Dijk, 2002) or simply another phase in its relentless progress. Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003) who views the Web as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. 2002) The Network Society. Essentially, the Web has become more social. Van Dijk, J. London: Sage.

Wiki 54