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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: It’s a new year and time to plan your professional development with Advancement Courses. They offer over 280 online graduate-level PD courses in 20 subject areas. Receive graduate credit through CAEP and regionally accredited university partners or for continuing education units that meet your state requirements.

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Teaching from Home and Still Making a Difference: Meet Katharine from 51Talk

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I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2003, so over 14 years. After finishing I decided I still had a lot of the world that I wanted to see, so I enrolled in a TEFL course in Guadalajara, Mexico. Katharine, can you please tell us a little bit about your background?

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ISTE Certification 01

Dangerously Irrelevant

When we created the nation’s first graduate program designed to prepare a technology-savvy school administrator at the University of Minnesota (way back in 2003!) , ISTE was one of our most important partners in that work. We meet face-to-face every few weeks and also engage together in a number of asynchronous learning activities.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. Another part of 51Talk I enjoy is the depth and knowledge of their training courses for their instructors. It is these types of interactions that improves cultural competence in the individual.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

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Davidson’s book also argues that colleges in particular have a responsibility to update teaching techniques to meet the changing demographics of students and the changing needs of the workforce. A classic example: Back in 2003 she led a groundbreaking experiment at Duke University to use iPods in education. How does that work?

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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. Personalized Learning Personalized learning in the 21st-century classroom is about tailoring education to meet the unique needs, skills, and interests of each student. link] Martell, C. link] Tye, K.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

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Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now.

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