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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

In many cases, without even realizing it, educators plan their curriculum without considering whether it includes the diverse backgrounds and identities of their students. Then, we’ll provide a few strategies for improving your cultural competency and even a starter list of diverse books to include in your classroom library or curriculum.

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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

Waterford

Differentiated instruction is an educational strategy in which teachers adapt their instruction to meet the needs of their class. In a survey from the International Journal of Education, 97% of teachers reported never or seldom using a flexible curriculum for their students.[2] What is Differentiated Instruction?

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On ZTC, OER, and a More Expansive View

Iterating Toward Openness

For the first decade of the modern open education movement (1998 – 2007), the distinguishing feature of our work – the thing we cared most about and talked most about – was the open licensing we applied to educational materials. ” There were two kinds of educational materials in the world.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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Today, Top Hat announced it has reached an agreement to acquire more than 400 higher education textbooks from Nelson, one of the biggest educational publishers in Canada. Should the Nelson deal pass, Top Hat will boast more than 1,000 titles in its library. In 2007, Thomson’s higher-ed publishing division was acquired for $7.75

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). educators, and Catherine Lewis, who conducts academic research on lesson study.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

But these are secondary causes. Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. This adds up to the tuition fees.

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What Schools Can Learn About Communication From the Vatican’s Former Social Media Chief

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Monsignor Tighe calls his educational profile and path “one of the most disjointed you will ever find.” In secondary school in Ireland, he pursued science, thinking he was heading for a career in medicine. When I arrived in the Vatican around 2007-2008, everything was beginning to happen with digital communications.