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Graduation 2020 - Ideas When #RemoteLearning

The Innovative Educator

Graduation in 2020 will be unlike any graduation before it. Here's an example from a secondary school. Online event These five steps to an online commencement are a great start. While the thought of losing the traditional pomp and circumstance is difficult, there are some innovative options available. Fortnite is another option.

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What to Know Before Moving From High School Teacher to College Professor

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The median pay for post-secondary (college) teachers in 2020 was $80,790, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In 2020, there were 1.33 million post-secondary teachers compared to less than 1.05 High School or College: Which Has a Higher Earning Potential? million high school teachers, according to BLS.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. If this event has passed, find another online event and join in. UNICEF (2020, September 2020). Join in conversations and build your PLN. On February 5, 2022, the Literacy Matters Conference will happen online.

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How to use micro-coaching for teacher PD

eSchool News

The Wall Street Journal reported that at least 300,000 public school teachers and other staff left the field alone between February 2020 and May 2022. Teachers are also already overwhelmed with their work, so adding one more course or event to their calendars is challenging and sometimes not allowed. What is micro-coaching?

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COVID-19’s Long-Term Impacts on Education in 2020 and Beyond

Edsurge

Secondary teacher positions are harder to fill than elementary ones; as are science and math openings. Although there are millions of Americans qualified to fill the 3.7 million teaching positions, there are acute shortages by grade level, subject matter, and geography.

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In a Contentious Year, Can Social Studies Be Taught Free of Bias?

Edsurge

Such an approach will require students to do more than listen to lectures as they develop their own perspectives through inquiry learning and close examination of primary and secondary sources. We really want to try to help our students evaluate primary and secondary source materials and engage in interpretation analysis.

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How to Introduce Historical Thinking Skills to Your Students, and Why You Should

Waterford

Historical thinking is a “tool for helping students at practically any level learn how to formulate and support arguments based on primary sources, as well as to understand and challenge historical interpretations related in secondary sources.”[2]. Any change to an event could have had widespread effects on what came after. Copy/Paste.

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