eSchool News

MAY 2, 2024

I am not a native speaker and I had not been in a classroom for a few years. Although I did my best to study in advance, I learned via an email that I had passed the reading part of their tests, but had not passed the listening component. A month later I was flown there to have my language skills tested. I was devastated.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

Welcome to a series that supports the use of technology in support of differentiated learning in and beyond the PBL classroom. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 23, 2021

Having a deep conceptual understanding of math creates the problem-solving foundation that all areas of STEM are built on, and early math skills are powerful predictors of later learning. Giving students opportunities to develop their spatial skills also provides learning benefits that go beyond math.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2018

The past decade saw significant improvements in the application of technology to learning and 2017 became a tipping point where embedding technology into education finally moved from fringe to mainstream, remaking classrooms in the image of the future. Personalized student learning. More Chromebooks than iPads.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 12, 2018

Participate.com allows us to pull all of this goodness together for ourselves and for the learning communities we serve. A recent winner of the ISTE Seal of Alignment Report , Participate.com is a professional learning networker’s dream, packed with features offering local relevance as well as the potential for global connections.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 10, 2016

Welcome to this third post in a series that promotes student inquiry in the classroom. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. It may also lead to more questions, allowing for divergent learning.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 6, 2018

The biggest question I get after a workshop or training session is how did our iPad roll-out have so much success both in my classroom and for our school. For me, when asked, I tell my story of how going 1:1 in my classroom transformed learning. What I tell them is that it’s not about the tool or the gadget.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Founded as an experimental nursery school in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, the program was conceived as a laboratory to find the ideal environment for young children to learn. We take them seriously,” says Channing Edson, the head teacher in Marin’s classroom. By almost any point of comparison, Bank Street pays its teachers well.

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Well, how about you have a little fun while you are at work or maybe make school more interesting by making learning fun. Hence convincing the clients about the game-based learning was a challenge with limited resources back then. This tool is a great way for companies of all sizes to experience game-based learning and training.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What these posts all have in common is they were worth saving for my own learning and reading enjoyment. He applies this lesson to how educators approach learning with their own students, positively or negatively. Some of our faculty and I actually used this process for a two day curriculum writing workshop this past June.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

On a shelf in her Chicago classroom, third grader Arianna has a thick binder that details her achievements, strengths and goals as a student, along with some revealing information about her personality. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Tom Murray

APRIL 12, 2016

The notion of “effective professional learning” is something that has been discussed for decades. A comparison in the philosophies of today’s school districts yields results that falls across a continuum of who controls the learning. Learn alongside your staff members and model expectations for them. Nothing more.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. Public Schools created a design lab , which invited principals, teachers and staff to workshop solutions to problems. For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C. In 2018, D.C.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

On a shelf in her Chicago classroom, third grader Arianna has a thick binder that details her achievements, strengths and goals as a student, along with some revealing information about her personality. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

But for the people who are convinced at least that there's a use for technology in the classroom are willing to try, what advice do you have for trying to thread that needle? I give many workshops every year for people in that situation. The person has to learn that this works, and they're not being irresponsible or lazy.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

During a past professional development workshop, the consultant informed us at one point to end independent reading in our classrooms. Some students will utilize this time effectively, but in my experience as a classroom teacher and principal, it is the students that need our guidance the least that do well with silent reading.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 18, 2016

The post FREE eBook: The Complete Guide to Google Certifications appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Learn All About it with this FREE Guide! Becoming Google certified was a game-changer for my professional learning and my career. Comparison Table of 5 Google Certifications. © Shake Up Learning 2016.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 29, 2018

She is currently in the classroom teaching high school, and she’s also the author of the new book Take Charge of Your Teacher Evaluation. So right there you have some conflict between how people approach, how children learn, and then how they’re being measured. So they don’t necessarily get to tell us what just happened.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

“It was really looking yourself in the mirror and saying, ‘Which four in 10 students don’t deserve to learn to read?'” Silva didn’t know anything about how children learn to read or how they should be taught, so he started searching online. “This is the most studied aspect of human learning.”

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 29, 2018

She is currently in the classroom teaching high school, and she’s also the author of the new book Take Charge of Your Teacher Evaluation. So right there you have some conflict between how people approach, how children learn, and then how they’re being measured. Don’t cede the narrative of what it means to be a teacher.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Courtney Groskin are Learning Coaches with the Office of Professional Development in St. I know what it feels like to want to be the best teacher you can be and not necessarily have someone that you can access to say, like, “Hey, how do you teach inquiry style learning in a middle school classroom or high school classroom?”

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Her research revealed the critical connection between teacher well-being and student learning, and the power that can become possible when teachers and students use mind-body wellness practices as a vehicle for social change. . Want to listen instead of read ? Download the audio, and listen on the go! ?. How is that person feeling?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 14, 2019

After almost a decade of teaching in the secondary ELA classroom in the United States and abroad in Bulgaria, Betsy started the Spark Creativity website and podcast. I have essentially never lectured in almost 10 years in the classroom. I don’t have a classroom microphone. I like this way of teaching.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You can take courses on helpful topics like classroom management, teacher wellness, education technology, special education classes and more. Advancement Courses is flexible and lets you work at your own pace to create things to improve your classroom. That’s just $120 per graduate credit hour or $160 for 50 clock hours.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

And it’s not all about demographics—there’s a new push toward making classrooms inviting to a diversity of political viewpoints. He then found Heterodox Academy, which he saw as a resource on whether he was inadvertently drowning out or ignoring certain points of view in his classroom. There’s a growing call for diversity on campus.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Although an improvement from previous years, this still pales in comparison with the emphasis on so-called core subjects like math and reading. This will help bridge core CS concepts like computational thinking and modelling to other subjects students are learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Deishangelxa, 9 years old at the time, struggled with virtual learning and fell far behind. because of climate change, and unusually ill-equipped to help children recover from the learning setbacks that come with them. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. ” said John King, a former U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

So she turned to the university’s Center for Online Learning and Teaching Technology, which provides workshops and support for faculty teaching online courses. The number of students with commuter visas pales in comparison to the campus’ population of about 27,500. But Merla-Watson thinks 35 might be shy of the reality. "On

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Here are the areas that have seen the most ed-tech investment activity so far this year: Learning to code : Investments include Galvanize ($45,000,000), Codecademy ($30,000,000), Andela ($24,000,000), Wonder Workshop ($20,000,000), Revature ($20,000,000). What Do Venture Capitalists Want? Surprise, surprise.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

She cautioned them not to let people “change your laws to stop you learning about history.” Credit: Vanessa Leroy for The Boston Globe Now these two laws are colliding in the state’s classrooms. But a New Hampshire scholar says it’s impossible to avoid subjects like these if we truly want to learn from the atrocities of the past.

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