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10 Popular Educational Trends and What You Need to Know

Waterford

Others, like genius hour and bite-sized learning, are recently arrived educational trends that may have a helpful place in your classroom. This year, as schools moved to online learning and teachers scrambled to adjust their curriculum, many teachers, students, and parents gained new appreciation for the value of self-care.

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#Supermuch teaching in the classroom and online

The CoolCatTeacher

We discuss what going to the next level in the classroom and in online learning means both at the secondary and college level. From now until September 28, Advancement Courses, an online provider of professional development for K-12 teachers, is donating 10% of their sales to funding DonorChoose.org projects. securingGreen ).

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning.

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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2021

Edsurge

We talked with Neil Selwyn, a research professor at Monash University in Australia and author of the provocative book "Should Robots Replace Teachers?" Changes are coming to higher education, and those changes will be bigger and more disruptive than many college leaders and experts realize as online learning grows.

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OPINION: How can teachers help students grapple with the chaos surrounding us?

The Hechinger Report

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context. At most of these institutions, the deficiency is not about a lack of sufficient credit hours.

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STUDENT VOICE: A year later, I’m still learning in my bedroom — and really, really tired of it

The Hechinger Report

I’ve been enrolled for 18 months; online the last year. That’s because the only “in-personlearning that was offered in the fall was to sit still in a classroom for six hours, your movement restricted, while logged on to the same Zoom classes you could do at home — with no opportunity to socialize. What about outdoor learning?

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Remote learning has been a disaster for many students. But some kids have thrived

The Hechinger Report

In some cases, those students struggled with distractions in the classroom during in-person learning. The challenge of in-classroom [learning] can be the social interaction. For kids with disabilities, that tech might include speech-to-text software or audio books. Alex, mother of a middle schooler.

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