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Teaching critical thinking skills in the online classroom

eSchool News

What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and how teachers can implement them in the classroom—especially now that schools are forced to provide virtual instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an online academic environment, the focus on critical thinking skills is amplified.

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How to teach critical thinking skills online

eSchool News

What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and how teachers can implement them in the classroom—especially now that schools are forced to provide virtual instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an online academic environment, the focus on critical thinking skills is amplified.

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Building critical thinking skills online

eSchool News

What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and how teachers can implement them in the classroom—especially now that schools are forced to provide virtual instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an online academic environment, the focus on critical thinking skills is amplified.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

It appears that much of the focus for improvement has been on creating rigorous classroom instruction to increase student achievement measured by the highly contested standardized tests. In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs.

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

edWeb.net

Anti-racist education in early childhood classrooms is far more than a multicultural lesson or two. Is My Classroom Equitable? Many teachers believe their classrooms are bias free. At the heart of anti-racist early childhood education, she emphasized, is institutional critique combined with advocacy and transformation.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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