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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. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Morningside College and a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from the University of South Dakota. She received her M.Ed.

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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

Waterford

It’s more about providing students, individually or in a group, with different learning options or providing accommodations to help them learn more effectively.[11]. Guidelines to assist the implementation of differentiated learning activities in South African secondary schools. International Education Journal, 2006, 7(7), pp.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Professional learning communities (PLCs) or networks (PLNs) are groups of teachers that share and critically interrogate their practices in an ongoing, reflective, collaborative, inclusive, learning-oriented, and growth-promoting way to mutually enhance teacher and student learning ( Stoll, Bolam, McMahon, Wallace, and Thomas, 2006 ).

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Teaching isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Way More Complex

The CoolCatTeacher

And then when they’re in class with the teacher, the teacher can work with one student or a group of students or even the whole class — depending upon what they’re trying to get at — to help them better internalize the direct instruction they’ve been watching. The essential element is one-to-one computing. Doug: Yeah.

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Rival studies shed light on the merits of a Montessori education

The Hechinger Report

Softer skills, such as group problem-solving, executive function and creativity were not better for Montessori kids. The two groups did about the same on those measures, or the differences were not statistically significant.). They finished their secondary degrees at the same rates with similar grades and final exam results.

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As students return to college, a basic question persists: What are they learning?

The Hechinger Report

Higher education has found itself under increasing pressure to change that, just as has happened in elementary and secondary schools, where a battery of standardized tests constantly check in on what students know. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, called in 2006 for learning to be measured and reported publicly.

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May 31 - Interview with James Bosco on Digital Media and Participatory Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He obtained a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1961. He held this position from March, 2006 until June, 2008. From 1990 to 1996 he served as co-director for a Kellogg Foundation project dealing with the restructuring of a secondary school in Kalamazoo.