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Ways to Teach Communication Skills in the Classroom

Waterford

6] As you teach content area skills, make a point to model and also explicitly teach communication skills like how to engage in a class discussion or respond to a question.[7]. Read alouds can be useful for teaching communication skills to elementary students. Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel 2008.

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A little-known program could be a model for how to spend billions in federal money on childcare

The Hechinger Report

Experts and educators say the Early Head Start partnership program could serve as a model, showing states how to design systems to better support child care programs and raise quality — assuming states get more funding under Biden’s plan. A toddler looks at a book on an October morning at Donna Araujo’s home child care program.

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Foreign Language Classes are Becoming More Scarce

Digital Promise

Of all the skills that a person could have in today’s globalized world, few serve individuals – and the larger society – as well as knowing how to speak another language. A 2018 study found that this ability to more easily learn a language lasts until about age 17 or 18 – which is longer than previously thought – but then begins to decline.

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Ann Oro: Developing A Digital Citizenship Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: May 17, 2018. We were just talking about how we’re pretty sure we met just about ten years ago to the day that we are recording this, in Princeton way back in 2008. And finally, how to truly put your best self out if you’re doing that on the internet. But we have to learn how to put them down.

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20 Texas Education Leaders to Follow on Twitter

MIND Research Institute

Brian Bushart is an elementary math curriculum coordinator. Yesterday, I was asked how to insert (vertical) fractions in @AppleEDU iWork files. this is how I do it. May 17, 2018. Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association (TESPA) @TEPSAtalk. Northside ISD Elementary Math Department @NISDElemMath.

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7 Tips for Teaching Students How to Ask Questions in Class

Waterford

One of the best ways you can help your students understand a concept is by teaching how to voice their questions as they learn. Read on to learn how questions help students learn more fully from you and each other. 4] Teach students how to ask questions so they understand the material at a level well beyond just memorization.

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Non-white teachers have increased 162 percent over the past 30 years, but they are also more likely to quit

The Hechinger Report

Their first 2012 report tracked changes from 1987 through 2008. He and his colleagues have since updated these findings twice, in 2014 and now in 2018 , with data through the 2015-2016 , which recently became available. This 2015-16 data shows that 20 percent of the 3.8 million public school teachers in the U.S. teaching labor force.