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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

We are taking the next two weeks–two articles–to answer the questions that should help you as a teacher or administrator decide what type of keyboarding program is best for your school. Week 1 (this article). Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. Is elementary school too early—or too late?

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Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach

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Then I ran into Dr. William Morgan on one of the education forums I frequent and was thrilled that he knows a lot about them and was willing to share his expertise to kick-off a mini-seminar in classroom keyboarding. Besides, we want our children to communicate with digital effectiveness in elementary school! Morgan (Ph.D.,

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Edutopia. The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). Job Embedded Professional Development.

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

The Hechinger Report

“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. Doris Bergen, a professor at Miami University’s Department of Educational Psychology. Play is essential to education.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Creating a Framework for Innovation.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Are science fairs unfair?

The Hechinger Report

Thousands of kids across the country, from elementary through high school, spend weeks or months coaxing seedlings to grow, building devices to harness solar energy and carefully mixing acids and bases. As educational opportunities, science fairs let students tackle the scientific method hands on. Springtime is science fair season.

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