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Relevant Thinking and Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

This might involve practical exercises, experiments, or real-life scenarios that require students to use their knowledge practically. For instance, math concepts can be reinforced through budgeting exercises or measuring ingredients in a cooking project. It can also be leveraged to ensure technology is used purposefully.

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Using EdTech to Support Healthy Habits in Kids and Teens

EmergingEdTech

aim to provide evidence-based learning tools, games, and modules to young students in a virtual space about health subjects. Both of these resources will provide young students the knowledge base they need to stay healthy for years to come — all while playing fun games and learning exercises.

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Does the Word ‘Teacher’ Still Describe What Educators Do in the Classroom?

Edsurge

People don’t think that we have exercise physiology or speech pathology because we have a historic name.” It is a great disservice to the knowledge base underlying education.” . Departments span across different disciplines, touching policy, neuroscience, and psychology. It is not the preparation that you need.

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Four Ways You Can Use Data to Create a Personalized, Teacher-Driven PD Playbook

Edsurge

With this simple exercise, you have identified an area of need—as well as a valuable SME who is already overcoming the challenge. Compile and organize this knowledge so that it is readily accessible for your staff—whether it’s on an internal file sharing system like OneNote, saved to Google Drive, or hosted on a school or district website.

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How Culturally Responsive Education Affects Student Engagement and Learning

MindSpark

That example requires students to synthesize their knowledge of Hamlet’s character through an act-out (which gets them out of their seats and boasts the benefit of a kinesthetic application of their knowledge). Elie Wiesel’s Night talks about death.

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How to Build Lifelong Learners

Ask a Tech Teacher

That knowledge base they created, the one they expect to take care of them throughout their career as a worker, adult, and human being, doesn’t — unless what they learned was how to learn. Change your attitude about learning. First: Act like learning is fun, cool, and exciting.

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Is It Time To Go Back To Basics With Writing Instruction?

MindShift

I think what’s most counter-cultural, and not really in the knowledge base, is how to develop students at the level of the sentence and all the ramifications that has in terms of thinking and content,” Scharff Panero said. And, McHugh has found that the writing exercises help her see where students have gaps in their knowledge.