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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

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Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? Classroom Use.

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Teach Vocabulary with the Frayer Model

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Use the Frayer Model in secondary language classes to gain a multi-layered appreciation of the word being discussed by writing everything in the second language. Update this exercise by distributing the template as a PDF through your school LMS, Google Classroom, or MS Classroom (or OneNote’s Classroom add-on).

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

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During debate exercises, there’s been a “consolidation” around points of view that are more left-leaning, he says, and a reluctance to make the case for extreme right-leaning positions. “I Deborah Appleman: I [used to be] a high school English teacher, but at Carleton I'm in the educational studies department. But so much has changed.

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The Power of See, Think, Me, We

Catlin Tucker

This routine aims to scaffold the thinking process by breaking it down into manageable chunks, thereby facilitating rich classroom conversations or introspective thinking. Studying a Historical Figure See: The teacher presents a portrait or image of a historical figure.

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The ultimate guide to authentically creating a secondary classroom where students feel safe, welcome, & whole

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 05

Dangerously Irrelevant

At Legacy High School, Tom Schmidt and Ben Johnson, the secondary assistant superintendent, talked to us about how they divided the day into 22 modules, or ‘mods,’ which has allowed for tremendous flexibility. Outside of the main classrooms are numerous flexible spaces that allow for individual work and small group collaboration.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I So what has he learned in more than 20 years from applying his persistence (and much of the money he won from the Nobel) to studying teaching? That it's strengthening, essentially, through the right kind of mental exercise.

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