A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2024

Brisk Teaching – A Google Chrome extension that helps busy teachers save time in the tools they already use, like Google Classroom, Docs, Slides, YouTube, and online articles. Users who have the paid version can create elaborate images. Gemini – A chatbot from Google that is very similar to Chat GBT.

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Passion for Social Studies

JUNE 30, 2024

Honestly, there are so many topics to teach in any history course. Thankfully, that is not the case when teaching the Cold War! Luckily, this lesson has everything you need when teaching the Cold War. The Cold War Lesson When teaching the Cold War, it is important for students to learn about the countries involved.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). Now, without further ado, here are some remote learning teaching tips. Develop a balance between synchronous (live session) and asynchronous (tasks to be completed offline) teaching and learning.

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TeachThought

JANUARY 18, 2022

The post Teaching Students To See Quality appeared first on TeachThought. So what does quality have to do with learning? Quite a bit, it turns out. And it starts out with helping students understand what it means.

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Passion for Social Studies

MARCH 31, 2024

When teaching the Judicial Branch, the perfect resources are ready! When teaching the Judicial Branch, this project will engage students as they critically analyze major Supreme Court cases. Judicial Branch Unit When teaching the judicial branch, there is a lot to focus on! Nominating Judges Lesson $ 6.00

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Passion for Social Studies

MARCH 14, 2024

Thankfully, teaching Nixon and LBJ will no longer be a concern. Teaching Nixon and LBJ requires a lot of complexity and digging into their presidencies. Students will love going back in time to when teaching Nixon and LBJ! So, teaching Nixon and LBJ is essential to building this knowledge in students.

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Norton Learning - Sociology

JULY 11, 2024

Rutter is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Framingham State University (MA), where she continues to teach classes on families and methods. She has received both top teaching and scholarship honors at FSU and was a statewide union leader focused on transparency in universities … Continue reading Teaching FAMILIES AS THEY REALLY ARE

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

Thompson’s voice-activated assistant is the brainchild of computer scientist Satya Nitta, who founded a company called Merlyn Mind after many years at IBM where he had tried, and failed, to create an AI tool that could teach students directly. Despite Watson’s gameshow success, however, it wasn’t much good at teaching students.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

The Zinn Education Project provides free resources to teach outside the textbook about the Tulsa Massacre and the continuing history of institutionalized racism and displacement. In a growing number of states, it is becoming dangerous to teach about Tulsa. Please pay attention to the upcoming school board elections in your area.

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Living Geography

JULY 24, 2024

Cross-posting from my teaching blog. I was contacted by Teaching Times who were interested in the session I had planned for the GA Conference 2024 on 'Everyday Geographies', which was called 'Wake up, smell the geography'. I turned it into a piece which fitted their structure and it has now been published on their website.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

But We Can’t Teach? Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth. At least 44 states have passed or proposed legislation to prohibit teaching about structural racism. But educators around the country continue to pledge to teach the truth about structural racism.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Teaching Anthropology. Human Organization.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

In this election year, the Zinn Education Project developed an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise awareness about the growing threat of anti-history education laws and book bans. Predicting that question, we prepared a postcard with Teach, Vote, Organize on one side and a range of actions one can take on the other.

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A Lesson Plan for Teachers

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Teaching Challenge Teaching today is a challenge. Each will address the best websites, strategies, and resources for teaching the Social Studies content areas. In this post, We’ll take a look at […] The post Finding Everything You Need for Teaching U.S.

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A Lesson Plan for Teachers

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I plan to add in links […] The post Finding the Help You Need For Teaching Geography appeared first on A Lesson Plan for Teachers. Organization to Help You Find What You Need There are so many of you that are classroom teachers short on time (and energy), so I wanted to write a series of posts just for you!

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My AP Life

APRIL 11, 2023

The post Renewing Our Hope for Teaching and Learning first appeared on MiddleWeb. DeAnna Miller's participation in a national teacher educators' conference after a long personal learning drought energized her and gave her hope for the future of public education. "I I had an epiphany," she writes. "I

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ED Surge

JUNE 5, 2024

Moving the Needle Toward Conceptual Understanding Teaching for conceptual understanding is easier said than done, as it requires deep content knowledge and the ability to make connections between student responses and concepts in real time.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2024

Last fall, I wrote about how early educators can experience anxiety about teaching math because of their own bad past experiences. The post Teaching word problems in the early grades appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available. Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 28, 2024

For this 4th annual Teach Truth Day of Action, we are offering a pop-up display so event hosts can set up an information table at a public space such as a bookstore, library, or farmers’ market. Vanessa Williams and Loyalty Books, one of the bookstores that enthusiastically signed on for the Teach Truth Day of Action.

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Heinemann Blog

JULY 23, 2024

The Not This, But That series aims to replace some common, existing teaching practices with approaches that are more effective—healthier, perhaps—for our students. Each text is collaboratively written by authors to bring professional wisdom to important instructional topics.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. And now that campuses are back from pandemic restrictions, many instructors are trying to incorporate those remote practices into their in-person teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” Lewis prompted teaching about allusions to the Christian creation story and the myth of Narcissus, knowledge they could use to analyze future stories and characters.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

DECEMBER 17, 2023

One of the more challenging topics to teach in Psychology is biopsychology. With this in mind, here’s my attempt to share how I’ve approached teaching this topic*. Students often arrive at A level psychology with not only a wide range of prior knowledge but also a massive variety in expectations about what they’re going to learn.

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 28, 2024

It will also work if you are lucky enough to teach your HL and SL students separately. Tomorrow I will provide a one-year plan for teaching SL students. The recommended teaching hours from the subject brief are: This equates to about 3 hours a week for SL over two years and around 5 hours for HL.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2024

They had an idea, though, for how they could set up a unique set of guardrails that would make a new kind of teaching tool that could help students get more of their ideas into their assignments and spend less time thinking about formatting sentences. They have been building tools together to help teach writing for decades.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. I teach from a mindset and lens that I want to make sure my students are becoming activists, and it’s not enough just talking about it,” the science and math teacher said. “

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

But even as some educators raise concerns, others see potential for new AI technology to reduce teacher workloads or help bring teaching materials to life in new ways. A number of startups are trying to bring so-called generative AI to classrooms as a teaching tool. Chocolate-Covered Broccoli’?

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

JANUARY 16, 2023

Teaching Job Skills Middle school is a crucial time for students to start thinking about their future careers and what they want to do when they grow up. One of the best ways to do this is by teaching job skills in middle school. However, teaching students how to write a resume can be tricky.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As a former science teacher and instructional coach, though, he was looking for a way to deliver the teachings of tribal elders to a broader audience via distance education. To help better preserve and share the teachings of his Native culture, he decided to try the latest in high tech tools — virtual reality. he wondered.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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Teaching Anthropology

JANUARY 13, 2023

The “emergency remote learning (ERT)” implemented widely during the pandemic did not generally represent a thoughtful transition to an online teaching modality that prioritizes a learner-center pedagogy (Bozkurt & Sharma, 2020; Hodges et al., Emergency remote teaching in a time of global crisis due to Corona Virus pandemic.

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. The past few years have seen advancements in our understanding of this time — where the brain is going through almost as much change as during the earliest years of a child’s life.

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APSA Educate

JULY 23, 2024

What tools can faculty use to … The post Teaching the 2024 U.S. What assignments or activities should political science educators use to help undergraduates understand the 2024 U.S. Election: webinar recording appeared first on APSA.

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APSA Educate

JUNE 7, 2024

Yet, change … The post Teaching During Wartime: Institutional Adjustments with a Flexible Classroom Teaching Approach appeared first on APSA.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

OCTOBER 29, 2023

They’re a great bit of kit that can let you do lots of really useful things in your teaching. I did get it set up and started experimenting, then used it at home for online teaching during the Covid pandemic. So why am I unable to commit to something that I’m confident will improve my teaching? I love visualisers.

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