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Empowerment Through Choice

A Principal's Reflections

The underlying idea in this approach is that choice gives employees a sense of personal control, which can enhance their intrinsic motivation towards their work, resulting in higher morale, creativity and innovation, better performance, more significant organizational commitment, and lower turnover (Chua and Iyengar, 2006). Case in point.

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How to teach conflict resolution in high school ELA, social studies classes

eSchool News

Below is an example student activity of how to integrate these strategies into a lesson on the conflict between Dr. Frankenstein and his monster in Mary Shelley’s famous gothic novel, Frankenstein. All educators need to emphasize the value of having an open mind, and model how to listen to and empathize with those with whom we disagree.

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10 Essential Online Learning Best Practices – Free Webinar

The CoolCatTeacher

I also know that that I too have a lot to learn, even though I’ve been teaching online since 2006 and have collaborated globally for years. They know how to do distance learning. So, last week I called one of my major sponsors – a distance learning professional development company – Advancement Courses.

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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. Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement.” What is Family Engagement? Dearing, E.,

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4 Strategies Designed to Drive Metacognitive Thinking

Catlin Tucker

More formally, “metacognition was originally referred to as the knowledge about and the regulation of one’s cognitive activities in learning processes” (Veenman, Van Hout-Wolters, & Afflerbach, 2006, p.3). Ongoing Self-Assessment Documents. Assess where they are in relation to mastering specific skills.

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Social-Emotional Learning Part III: Responsible Decision Making

Catlin Tucker

This competency requires students to take their heightened self-awareness and ability to manage themselves and make responsible choices about how they respond to different situations and interact with others. So, how do we help students make responsible decisions? What is responsible decision-making? Click to copy.

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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. I can do formative assessment without technology.

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