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When His Roster Outgrew His Classroom, This Prof Mastered Modular Online Curriculum

Edsurge

Right before the start of the Fall semester in 2002, Robertson learned that the 400-seat movie theater that held his Principles of Marketing class at San Francisco State University would no longer be available. He explains that an experiential exercise can be as simple as a video game, such as the simulation Lemonade Stand.

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The in-school push to fight misinformation from the outside world

The Hechinger Report

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. The middle school exercise was almost not included in the study because researchers thought it was too easy, said Sam Wineburg, Stanford professor and lead author of the report.

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Winter is here

Learning with 'e's

The sudden increase in births from 2002 onwards is largely responsible for this trend, and this was an expected rise. They are weighed down with bureaucracy and work extraordinarily long hours, mainly spent at home marking exercise books and tests to try to keep up with the punishing assessment regimes the government imposes on all schools.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

A decade of policy support for California’s new teachers: The beginning teacher support and assessment program. The impact you have when you’re positive (or negative) So, there’s this incredible study done back in 2002 called The Ripple Effect: Emotional Contagion and its Influence on Group Behavior. M., & Ingersoll, R.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. Meth and opioids flooded in.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

Create variety (different kinds of examples, models, exercises, and presentation modalities). 2002) Promoting Teachers’ Moral Reasoning and Collaborative Inquiry Performance: a developmental role-taking and guided inquiry study. Engage inquiry (puzzles, questions, problems, dilemmas). Hanson, S (2010). & DeAngelis Peace, S.

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

Edsurge

EdLeader21 has developed a toolkit to guide districts and independent schools in developing their own “portrait of a graduate” as a visioning exercise. Wondering how to teach and assess 21st century competencies? He currently serves as CEO of EdLeader21 , a national network of Battelle for Kids. Full sized infographic here.