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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

Then, we’ll provide a few strategies for improving your cultural competency and even a starter list of diverse books to include in your classroom library or curriculum. For students from underrepresented backgrounds, culturally responsive teaching strategies can help them feel more comfortable in the classroom and improve school success.

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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

As one Dynamic Learning Project principal shared, “A good coach is… innovative not only in her instructional strategies and what she can find and bring to teachers, but in the way she approaches teachers or staff members and builds relationships and finds the way in, even when the door might not be open.”. 2 Kraft, M.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Integrated Studies of Educational Technology: Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund – Educational Technology State Grants Program (Review Copy) (American Institutes for Research, 2002) **Note: Despite the fact that the report was conducted under the direction of the U.S. FY 2003 $700,500,000. The post U.S.

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

Waterford

Canadian Medical Association Journal, September 2002, 167(6), pp. Early Years: An International Research Journal, 2003, 23(1), pp. Foolproof Strategies for New Teachers: Prepare, Organize and Engage. Avoiding the back-to-school backache. Peters, S. “I NSW Department of Education. Getting Ready for School. portland.edu: [link].

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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.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

SAMR Model One of the most powerful ways to have a discussion with colleagues regarding technology adoption and pedagogical-shift strategies is the SAMR Model. SAMR Model One of the most powerful ways to have a discussion with colleagues regarding technology adoption and pedagogical-shift strategies is the SAMR Model. & Hoy, A.W.

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Knowledge ownership

Connecting 2 the World

According to Skitka’s (2003) AIM model of Social Identity Theory , a greater level of ownership may create higher stakes for the individual within a group. 2000; Moreland & Levine, 2001; Skitka, 2003; Whitworth et al., 2001; McGrath et al.,

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