The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2021

We've actually done a whole study of how the student brain can react to learning about money at such a pivotal age. And then at the high school level, we have entire financial literacy suites building from the very basics to getting a little bit more into, if you are going on to secondary education, what does that look like.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Best for secondary (grades 6-12). Variation: A favorite purchase of mine for the classroom (that luckily was bought by my school with some STEM money) was Exploragons. Preparation: Select vocabulary words, people you’re studying, characters from books, geometric shapes, and symbols, shapes of letters, etc.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. Student simulation tasks (RSIC study). Wikipedia: Helpfulness vs. citability across the grade-level cohorts (RSIC Study).

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

I’m assuming it’s very different for elementary than secondary. Erin: I’m going to let Ross jump in in a second, but I just want to address here the piece about the secondary versus the elementary. So I thought that that was a really unique way to work PBL into a secondary classroom model. How do they create models?

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Assessment Secondary Learning Elementary 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Though the state definition of proficiency is changing, for years proficiency was measured by how many students reached a passing, or “basic” score on the math and English portion of state tests.). Of the dozen or so school leaders interviewed for this article, not one had a definitive answer for why the projections were so inflated.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: See PDF for more details.)

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

One teacher, many students: It’s basically the definition of school as we know it, going back to the earliest days of the Republic. Pane is the lead author of one of the few empirical studies to date of this idea, published late last year. Students, parents or teachers can keep track of progress using a dashboard.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., While most educators in our focus groups expressed similar ideas to Flamm, they did not offer one singular definition of making. offers when asked to describe the making-focused lessons and activities that she uses with her students.

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Groups Academic Standards Secondary Robotics 153

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. I grew up walking in lines and studying in strict classrooms.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Right now, we may have learners that are still engaged and are attending class daily; but we definitely have some learners that are struggling to stay connected to their education due to circumstances that may be outside of their control. Social studies? Bryn Grosskopf is a secondary math teacher in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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Assessment Conference Google Secondary 81

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

” But the truth is if we have gone to college and studied our subject area, we probably do know some stuff about our subject area that our students don’t know. So it definitely does not automatically improve student engagement or learning. That is definitely important work. That’s been true in my experience.

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Examples Strategy Classroom Groups 61

Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

In this post, I will address each of these questions based on the definition of a capstone course at my current place of employment. This enables collaboration with experts in the fields of study students have chosen for their capstone topic. My own doctoral study discovered how effective PLNs can be.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What makes our book different, in my view, is that we don't stop there: We give stories of real-life faculty who use alternative methods -- a large portion of the book consists of case studies -- and blueprints that give faculty the tools to build their own alternative systems.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. They’re distracting others. And on and on and on.

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