Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This week, I took a hard look at my teaching approach and realized I had been falling into a pattern of overloading my lessons with too much traditional content. After reflecting and talking with Jon Corippo, I refocused my energy on using student-centered protocols that would both engage my 8th graders and keep the content academically rich yet accessible.

Geography 90

Geography Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 90

ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

If you don’t subscribe to the British Sociological Association’s “Discovering Sociology” newsletter you’re missing-out on the free “journal corner” offering of “curriculum friendly summaries of papers published in the BSA journal Sociology” (which presumably means cutting-out all the dull bits and just moving straight to exam-friendly stuff – I could be wrong).

Sociology 94

Sociology Education 94

Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A mysterious animal painting 1 on a cave wall in South Africa’s Free State Province has long puzzled scientists. Depicted with two large downward-pointing tusks, the animal doesn’t resemble any current African species, and early speculations linked it to legendary creatures like walruses or saber-toothed cats 2. However, emerging research 3 suggests that the painting may depict an extinct creature—specifically a dicynodont, an ancestor of mammals that thrived millions of years

Research 71

Research 71

Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India By Saad Gulzar , Princeton University , Durgesh Pathak , Aam Aadmi Party , Sarah Thompson , Stanford University , Aliz Tóth , London School of Economics and Political Science Recruiting a large number of ground workers is crucial for running effective modern election campaigns.

Political Science 38

Political Science Economics Education 38

A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Photo by Andy Barbour on Pexels.com Are you, or have you been, an examiner for your subject? It seems like it’s an accepted truth that this is one of the best forms of subject-specific CPD you can do. It’s something that gets consistently recommended as something to help career progression and I’m reasonably sure that not having examiner experience was a strong contributing factor in at least one unsuccessful job interview.

Psychology 195

Psychology Teaching Education 195

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This story was originally published by The 19th. The number of books banned in public schools over the past year skyrocketed to more than 10,000, with two states — Iowa and Florida — responsible for most of them, according to preliminary findings released by PEN America on Monday. The report comes during Banned Books Week , which first began in 1982 to raise awareness about the importance of free and openly accessible information.

Library 125

Library Heritage K-12 Public School 125