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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

Waterford

As they listen, teachers can also show students how to be judgment-free listeners. This is also helpful by modeling for students how to be good listeners to their peers. Classroom activities like reflective writing in journals is a great way to teach communication skills to PreK, elementary, or secondary students. January, 2020.

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

Edsurge

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 I had a lot of life experience on how to deal with these things that felt so personal and hard to grapple with and I was so angry about.

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How to Introduce Historical Thinking Skills to Your Students, and Why You Should

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Essentially it includes the reading, analysis, and writing necessary to tell historical stories—not just what we know about the past, but how we know about it.[1]. 3] Here are some techniques students can use to exercise their historical thinking muscles, according to the SHEG rubric. Sources: Teaching History.org. Gibson, Lindsay.

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ChatGPT Teacher Tips Part 3: Personalized Learning

EdTechTeacher

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. How to use ChatGPT for Personalized Learning For primary grades, ChatGPT can help build basic skills in math, reading, and writing.

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How to Host a Student Media Festival

The CoolCatTeacher

Mike Lawrence, a current organizer of the longest running student media festival in the country, shares how to set up and run your own media festival. With a big hat tip to our mutual friend Hall Davidson who started this event, we learn the ins and outs of student media festival and how you can “steal” their ideas and run your own!

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Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the IB Program

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Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. Conclusion This section summarizes talking points and how the research answered the question. Many students dread IB essays.

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How edtech strengthens parental engagement in online learning

Neo LMS

While the student goes through the formal steps within the system — from kindergarten to primary school to secondary school and so on — parents are an important part of the big picture. Read more: How to keep parents engaged in school activities using an LMS. It starts at home: the first teachers a child has are their parents.