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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

Measuring learning styles often involves an assessment such as this one from the Georgia Department of Education. Instead of planning activities based on learning styles, teachers may want to opt for a different, but better researched technique: differentiated instruction. How would you discover a student’s learning style?

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Renaissance and Hillsborough County Celebrate 10 Years of Equitable Access to Thousands of Books

eSchool News

Thirty-nine percent of the books children access through the program are opened for the first time outside of school hours, and books have been accessed over 71,718,216 times since the inception of the program in 2012, equating to over 336 million minutes spent reading. We look forward to continuing to support them for many years to come.”.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Adaptive teaching in literacy instruction: Case studies of two teachers. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of learner Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching &Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your learners as individuals through differentiated instruction.

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APM Studios Inks Partnership With Listenwise To Bring Award-Winning Science Podcast Brains On! Into Classrooms

eSchool News

Since its launch in 2012, the mission of Brains On! The curriculum-aligned podcasts are paired with learning tools and listening comprehension assessments to transform them into rigorous academic content. PAUL, Minn., APM Studios’ award-winning science podcast for kids, into classrooms nationwide as a learning resource for grades 2-5.

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Why Technology in Classrooms Doesn’t Always Boost Education Results

The CoolCatTeacher

Report results are based on an assessment in 2012 that tracked students in more than 40 countries and surveyed them on computer habits and conducted both written and digital tests. I went to a recent professional development about differentiated instruction. Edtech Professional Development Must Amp Up. We need PD!