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How to Encourage Girls in Your Classroom to Get Involved in STEM

Waterford

Additionally, one case study found that STEM programs can decrease gender gaps and improve interest and confidence in STEM for all students. Economics and Statistics Administration Issue Brief, August 2011, pp. How To Get Young Girls Excited About A Career In STEM. Beede, D.N., Julian, T.A., Langdon, D., McKittrick, G.,

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Case Study 4.7: ?Global Learning and Teacher Education – Leigh Zeitz

Learning Confluence

Written and edited by Julie Lindsay, and published by the International Society for Technology in Education in 2016, The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching is for global educators and global education leaders who want to know how to take learning global. Case Study 4.7: ?Global

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HE Challenges: Combating declining completion rates

Neo LMS

Preferring to offer up innovative case studies from across the HE sector (rather than just discuss the issue) today’s blog will look at declining completion rates, and ways in which some universities are addressing them. While the 2011 completion rate shows an uptick of 2.1% Public (two-year) community colleges: 38%.

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How to Boost Family Involvement through Parent-Teacher Conferences

Waterford

For Educators: How to Run a Parent-Teacher Conference. If you’d like to get more involved in school events, let them know how you’d like to help. How to Keep Family Engagement Strong After Parent-Teacher Conferences. To Involve Parents in the Assessment of the Child in Parent–Teacher Conferences: A Case Study.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. 2011, Nurmi et al., Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Madda et al.,

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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How DC Public Schools Uses Student Data to Support Mental Health

Edsurge

We've been offering EBT interventions as part of that model since the 2011-2012 school year. Douglas Gotel For example, we use child-centered play therapy intervention in our elementary schools where kids learn how to solve their problems and work through relational difficulties. More from Accelify.

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