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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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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Below, Melissa shares advice for how teachers can facilitate these kinds of powerful collaborative learning experiences with their students. Students have opportunities to work on smaller projects to familiarize themselves with collaborative learning and integrated projects. Preparation sets up students for success.

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6 Ways to create meaningful teamwork experiences through an LMS

Neo LMS

Chances are that no matter the subject, they are told to collaborate quite frequently. Plenty of examples can be found from Boy Meets World and Dawson’s Creek to Gilmore Girls. That is why the flipped classroom, blended learning, PBL, and many more teaching styles require a high degree of social learning.

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Five Ways to Make Peer Feedback Effective In Your Classroom

Edsurge

It is also an effective pedagogical strategy to teach students the skills of critical thinking, giving and receiving feedback and taking responsibility for their own learning. And at the secondary school level, peer review is still a new concept for many teachers and students. According to an. According to an. Sample rubric questions.

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This Tech Tool Can Save Teachers 10 Minutes Per Class

Edsurge

Fewer uploads and emails Gunn’s school has a one-to-one device policy; when she projects her screen to model her writing process, for example, students can connect their own devices to use the platform’s annotate tool to take a screenshot and add their own notes.

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Building Coding Skills Through Playful Learning

edWeb.net

For example, the teacher might establish that a green block stands for raising hands, a yellow block stands for touching toes, and a red block means freeze. Then the blocks can be arranged in different sequences, determining what that the students do when, while also providing them with opportunities for kinesthetic learning.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

2009): Collaborative learning : Teachers have opportunities to learn in a supportive community that organizes curriculum across grade levels and subjects. When teachers and schools engage in high-quality collaboration, it leads to better achievement gains in math and reading for students.

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