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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Here’s the outline for a seminar I teach in schools before the holiday break, to excite teachers about what they can accomplish “the second half” of the school year: Every year, I make New Year resolutions and ignore them. Resolutions that are, instead, about my teaching mindset. What’s with that?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Game development teaches kids valuable skills like creativity, problem-solving, and persistence—skills they’ll use for life! Tip from CodaKid Teachers: Start with small, achievable projects! Enhancing Creativity and Logical Thinking Game development doesn’t just teach coding; it also lets kids tap into their creativity.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

It’s fascinating that today’s game playing youth want a set of rules they must beat, parameters they must meet, levels (read: standards) they must achieve, and a Big Goal (think: graduation) they can only reach after a lot of hard work, intense thinking, and mountains of problems. Which they love. Image credit: Paulo Ordoveza.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, I spoke with several teachers regarding their primary questions and reflections on using AI in teaching and learning. Walberto Flores: How might we redefine teaching and learning? Keeping in mind these reflections, we can better understand how we move forward toward meaningful AI integration in education.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Teaching financial literacy to teens can be made more effective and engaging by using real-world examples, such as interactive apps and hands-on activities like budgeting classroom dollars or planning events within a fixed budget. ” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Of particular concern is the effect of missing class on student achievement, along with other notable problems like student behavior. Yet, those public schools still have been unable to meet the demand for teachers, with teaching jobs in high-poverty public schools having proven particularly hard to fill, according to the institute.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

Set Clear Goals Ask yourself what you want to achieve. Immersing yourself in the language can teach you important phrases you need to know. These subtleties teach you to use words better. They can teach you the nuances and subtle differences between words and their pronunciations.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Skills-based credentials are valuable because they state specific skills in which a learner achieved or displayed competence. A Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) and other types of Learning and Employment Records (LERs) can help package those various achievements in one place for learners to share over their lifetimes.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Welcome to a brand-new year of teaching! 28:01] Apple Intelligence: Tools to Transform Teaching Learn how Apples latest AI-powered tools like Math Notes and writing assistants impact the classroom and how we need to change teaching writing. [39:26]

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This hurt her teaching time, and she wanted to know if I experienced the same phenomenon in my teaching career; without hesitation, I admitted to facing the same problem. In my fifth year of teaching Arabic as a second language, I often reflect on how frequently my subject is undervalued.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Carr called attention to the widening gaps between the highest and lowest achievers scores are falling the fastest among students who are struggling the most. The percentage of students who are failing to reach the NAEP basic achievement level is growing larger. How would you grade a child who is just sitting behind a computer?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

as though living authentically meant I’d have to hide my queerness to succeed in teaching. While I envisioned teaching that challenged students to question and connect their learning to larger social issues, the expectations placed on me as an educator were quite different. She asked, “But what about your career?”

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JUNE 9, 2023

Nationally, mathematics achievement on average remains low with glaring, persistent inequities across racial and ethnic groups. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2022, students in fourth and eighth grade had the largest decline in mathematics achievement since 1990.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Dr. Swilley knows that everyone can achieve given the proper assistance and support and uses data to guide her faculty and staff in best practices to improve student outcomes. She upholds the Fairfield Central motto of Griffins Soaring for Greatness: Griffins Believe, Griffins Achieve, and Griffins Succeed.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If you’re wondering where to start, here are some good basics from the Ask a Tech Teacher international team: Integrating Technology in Education for Modern Classrooms Embracing technology is crucial for modern educators aiming to enhance their teaching methodologies and foster student engagement.

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JUNE 5, 2024

If we want mathematics achievement to improve, we need instruction to begin focusing on concepts instead of procedures. As a teacher, I know it can be difficult to know how to respond in the moment of teaching to make sure the students' learning continues to improve toward the goal.

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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.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

My colleagues, friends and family often praise my relentless pursuit of excellence, especially in my teaching career. My journey into teaching was born from a deep-seated curiosity about the transformative power of education and a drive for social justice. Teaching them is an immense privilege, one that I do not take lightly.

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MARCH 3, 2025

A study published in Developmental Psychology found that early math skills at kindergarten entry are among the most significant predictors of later academic achievement , even more so than early reading skills. Addressing early numeracy can be pivotal in closing achievement gaps, particularly for students from underserved communities.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

My career in teaching began in the fall of 2017, right after I completed the first summer semester of my graduate program. After my first three months as a teaching resident, the master teacher I shadowed went on maternity leave and never returned. Who Am I in Education? Needless to say, I was not prepared for the unrealized stress.

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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. They're the part of the brain that coordinates our social, emotional and behavioral capacities in order to achieve goals. These are the most neurocognitive skills we have. It's the kid currency.

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MARCH 10, 2025

Americas schools are facing a crisis in reading achievement. According to new research from Project Tomorrow and Thorndike Press from Gale, part of Cengage Group, large print books can improve students reading achievement levels and attitudes toward reading. Dr. Julie A.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How do we teach students to read? When it comes to teaching children to read, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. We need to equip educators with the tools and the expertise (and the freedom) to teach reading and customize it to every child.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Back then, remember your why felt like a genuine invitation to reconnect with the passion that first brought me to teaching; this made it easy to hold on to purpose and to find meaning in the day-to-day connections and small victories. Together, their legacies have shaped my teaching practice.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Teachers with math anxiety spend fewer hours teaching it in the classroom, so its important to end that cycle now, Robinson says. Much later, as a middle school math teacher, Robinson would cram before teaching a lesson; she was still hearing that long-ago teachers voice in her head saying she couldnt grasp the material.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The goal is to inspire the next generation of engineers, showcase the importance of engineering in solving global challenges, and recognize the achievements of engineers and encourage young people to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Do you use any I missed? She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

By using technology tools, you can monitor their progress in real time and adjust teaching strategies as needed. Share their progress with them in a way they understand, and celebrate their achievements. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Don’t forget to involve the students in this process.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

There, students have access to “gold standard” multilingual programming, a hard-won achievement for any U.S. Nationally, there aren’t enough bilingual educators , or educators certified to teach English as a second language (ESL). But in rural DuBois County, Indiana, administrators are prioritizing English-learner education.

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MARCH 23, 2023

April is Financial Literacy Month, so it's the perfect time to teach financial literacy. In this post, I’ll share with you these resources, how I recommend that you use them, and some interesting pointers I’ve learned as I teach students financial literacy. EVERFI sponsored this post. Job prospects are expected to be excellent.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These organizations and the students who benefit from them can serve as models for what we aim to achieve if we keep the end goal in mind. These events repeat several times a year across different organizations. How does project-based learning support the development of soft skills?

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JANUARY 10, 2025

Empowers Learners To Showcase Achievements The breakdown of microcredentials gives learners the language they need to articulate the competencies and skills they gain from various experiences. This does not necessarily mean changing what you teach, but it does mean considering how you are meeting workforce needs.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

From innovative research to real-world success stories, this show (and the others that will follow it) are packed with game-changing insights that I hope will upgrade how you think about teaching math. “How Teachers use Formative Assessment Strategies during Teaching: Evidence from the Classroom.” ” **, 7 (2022).

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Even though I wasn’t providing direct instruction and students weren't working to achieve that day’s content objective, I felt like I was watching learning happen all around me. But what is learning and why is play seen as so antithetical to teaching? It was a pleasant surprise after such a stressful situation.

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APRIL 23, 2024

Of those five, one left teaching during her third year, and another will resign next month, at the end of the school year. The other three are still teaching and plan to continue. years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School. It's hard to teach math, period.

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