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How Family Engagement Leads to Student Success

Waterford

Find out what family engagement is, how to nurture it, and how to create a community built on family-teacher relationships in your school. How to Increase Family Engagement. Developmental psychology, 2009, 45(3), 740-63. Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006, 98, 653-664. What is Family Engagement? Dearing, E.,

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How to Promote Additive Bilingualism over Subtractive Bilingualism in the Classroom

Waterford

How to Encourage Additive Bilingualism. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006, 9(6), 695-712. Theory and Research in Education, 2009, 7(2), pp. Here’s how it works. The post How to Promote Additive Bilingualism over Subtractive Bilingualism in the Classroom appeared first on Waterford.org.

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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2006, 28(1), pp. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2009, 14(2), pp. The post How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality appeared first on Waterford.org. Borman, G.D., and Dowling, N.M. and Davies, B. Borman, G.D., Goetz, M.E., and Tse, L.

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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

MIND Research Institute

A 2009 Vanderbilt University review in the Journal of Educational Psychology looked at over 50 years of longitudinal research on spatial ability , and concluded that “spatial ability plays a critical role in developing expertise in STEM.” Another game to foster spatial reasoning skills is Upright JiJi. Spatial Temporal White Paper.

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Why All Educators Need SAMR And TPACK

The Web20Classroom

Many districts and teachers turn to technology specific instructional models to help their understanding of the use of technology and how to use it for more than just a digital worksheet or typing an essay. SAMR Model -The SAMR Model was introduced by Ruben Puentedura in 2006. SAMR is the most popular and widely understood today.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Accomplished teachers are most knowledgeable about how students in their school or district learn, and thus they are ideal candidates to lead professional-learning and curriculum development efforts (Vescio et al., 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ).

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al., 9) Teaching and education in general are, as Pai, Adler, and Shadiow (2006) put it, inherently a “sociocultural process” (p. xii cited in Gay, p. 8) and that culture permeates all of our pedagogic practices and interactions. link] Coulter, S.

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