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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom.

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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

Last summer, we began an exciting pilot project to understand whether instructional technology coaching ultimately leads to closing the digital use divide in the classroom. To address this divide, it is necessary yet insufficient to ensure all schools have access to the internet and devices. 2 Kraft, M. Blazar, D., & Hogan, D.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

Classrooms in the United States are more diverse—culturally and linguistically—than ever before.[15] Culturally responsive teaching encompasses little steps like adding diverse books in your classroom library , as well as larger ones like adjusting your curriculum to include voices from marginalized communities.

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Inclusive Curriculum in Early Learning: Understanding the Research and Impact

Waterford

Tanya Christ, Ming Ming Chiu, Stephanie Rider, Deborah Kitson, Katherine Hanser, Elizabeth McConnell, Renae Dipzinski & Heather Mayernik (2018) Cultural relevance and informal reading inventory performance: African-American primary and middle school students, Literacy Research and Instruction, 57:2, 117-134, DOI: 10.1080/19388071.2018.1424274.

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

The Hechinger Report

The student had access to firearms at home; he had witnessed abuse while growing up; and he had a difficult relationship with his father. The parallelism between their play deficiencies, and the objective problems in forming trusting social bonds with others seems very significant,” concluded Brown in a 2018 article.

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Kelly Educational Staffing® and iteach® Announce Partnership

techlearning

and DENTON, Texas (October 9, 2018) – Kelly Educational Staffing ® (KES®), the nation’s leading provider of educational staffing, today announced a strategic partnership with iteach ® , a premier teacher certification program. More than 3 million classrooms are filled by a KES substitute teacher each school year. TROY, Mich.

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As schools reopen, will Black and Asian families return?

The Hechinger Report

Before the pandemic, the number of Black families homeschooling was rising swiftly, doubling between 2003 and 2018. Some kids haven’t signed on to remote learning for the entire past year because of a lack of computer or internet access or because adults didn’t have the time or resources to supervise their learning, she said.

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