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Preparing Students for Future Careers with Soft Skills Training on Financial Decisions

Ask a Tech Teacher

Last summer, I helped my niece create a cookie stand. She learned not only about baking but how to budget for supplies, manage earnings, and communicate with customers, which taught her money management while boosting her confidence in handling real-life business scenarios. These are the soft skills associated with financial literacy. The Ask a Tech Teacher team has put them together into an article to remind students–and teachers what students should know when they leave high school: Pre

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Federal Rule Change May Undermine ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Models

ED Surge

There’s a new battle raging in the long-running war over costly college textbooks , one that may strike a serious blow to the textbook subscription programs promoted by publishers and criticized by student advocates. The U.S. Department of Education recently started reevaluating financial aid regulations from 2016 that effectively allow colleges to automatically bill students for books and supplies as long as those materials meet criteria that include being sold at below competitive market rates

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IMechE: Virtual Work Experience Programme

All About STEM

The 2024 Institution of Mechanical Engineers Virtual Work Experience programme is now live! This fantastic programme is on-demand and available until June 2025.

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We Can't Directly Teach Dispositions, We Must Enculturate Them - Mindset 2

Know Adam's Blog

In the book Cultures of Thinking in Action , author Dr. Ron Ritchhart builds on his 25 years of work leading Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to provide a practical resource for teachers who are “eager to cultivate a culture of thinking in their schools and their classrooms.” The book sets out ten essential mindsets that encapsulate “the core ideas we as educators must seek to develop in ourselves” before we can start building a culture of thinking.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Jul 11, SAT Math Resources (Videos, Concepts, Worksheets and More)

Online Math for All

SAT Math Resources (Videos, Concepts, Worksheets and More)

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Reflecting on our Impact

Northeastern University

Interested in learning more about what we do at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education? Our mission statement is to seek to build and support a community of educators, researchers, and students, with the collective goal of strengthening the K-20 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) educational ecosystem.

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AI Literacy: What It Is and Why It Matters to High School Students

Start-Engineering

Eric Iversen Getting Ready for the Future From a For You page on TikTok to Netflix recommendations to shopping on Amazon, artificial intelligence is at work in high schoolers’ lives every day all the time. And that’s just what we can see. In countless other, much-less visible ways, AI is moving deeply and quickly into nearly every realm of their experience.

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Jul 11, Digital SAT Math Problems and Solutions (Part - 2)

Online Math for All

Digital SAT Math Problems and Solutions (Part - 2)

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Jul 11, SAT Math Videos (Part - 21)

Online Math for All

SAT Math Videos (Part - 21)

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.