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Social-Emotional Learning Part III: Responsible Decision Making

Catlin Tucker

Mental health and rates of anxiety (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor & Schellinger, 2011; Jones, Greenberg, & Crowley, 2015; Zins & Elias, 2006). So, how do we help students make responsible decisions? 5 Strategies Designed to Help Students Make Responsible Decisions. Strategy #5: Role Playing Exercises.

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Gaming the System: EscapEDX

Knowledge Avatars K-12

Not surprisingly, I struggled to keep my students engaged. In 2006, Robinson gave a TED Talk entitled "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" As it turns out, these conditions can easily be met by games that reach beyond leaderboards, points, and badges to incentivize engagement. By Jeremy Royster. Then I remembered.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

A teacher’s efficacy belief is a judgment of his or her capabilities to bring about desired outcomes of student engagement and learning.4 Engage inquiry (puzzles, questions, problems, dilemmas). Create variety (different kinds of examples, models, exercises, and presentation modalities). & DeAngelis Peace, S.