All About STEM

AUGUST 20, 2024

Have you signed up for Apprenticeship Support & Knowledge for Schools & Colleges (ASK)? Take a look at this video to find out more. ASK offers a range of activities for KS4 and KS5 students including the new Development School Programme which provides bespoke, intensive support for disadvantaged or underrepresented cohorts in England.

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Middle Web

AUGUST 20, 2024

To avoid experiencing co-teaching within an imbalanced power relationship, author, NBCT and co-teaching coach Elizabeth Stein shares a process that strengthens co-teaching through a dynamic exchange of individual and collective power – truly in partnership with one another. The post How to Create a Co-Teaching Power Zone first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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All About STEM

AUGUST 20, 2024

In the Autumn Term 2024, STEM Learning is running a free online student mentoring programme, funded by GSK. All About Futures/ All About STEM is managing school engagement in the Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside and Manchester regions. “We’re requesting that schools express their interest now if they might wish to be involved.

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Teach Hub

AUGUST 20, 2024

One classroom management strategy that has stood the test of time is the good old behavior chart. Behavior charts have long been controversial with people either praising them or criticizing them. Some argue they provide structure while others say they lead to negative behaviors and public shaming. Here we’ll explore the history of student behavior charts in education , and examine the pros and cons.

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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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All About STEM

AUGUST 20, 2024

Alongside STEM Learning’s STEM Community for educators, STEM Ambassadors can join their own Community to come together, find support and share ideas! “As a member, you can collaborate, ask for advice, share best practice and discover new ways to inspire young people with other volunteers, wherever they are in the UK.

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All About STEM

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Liverpool City Region Careers Hub Student Careers Champions Programme is aimed at 11-19-year-olds in Secondary Schools and Further Education Colleges. The Programme is designed to improve pupil, staff and parents’ understanding of growth sectors and a wider understanding of local labour market information (LMI).

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Stem-by-Design

AUGUST 20, 2024

Hi Anne, I use your book when teaching my STEM by design class and require it as a resource. I am updating my syllabus and need a newer edition (per school requirements). Do you have plans of releasing a newer edition? I love it as a resources and really want to continue using it.

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All About STEM

AUGUST 20, 2024

During a CREST Award project, learners take on the roles of scientists, researchers, engineers and designers! The CREST Awards scheme is a programme for young people, providing a flexible STEM project framework that engages and inspires 5 to 19 year olds.

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Stem-by-Design

AUGUST 20, 2024

Stay tuned! A new edition of STEM by Design is scheduled to come out in December, 2024. I think you’ll really like this edition – filled with new information about designing and leading STEM projects!

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All About STEM

AUGUST 20, 2024

Alongside STEM Learning’s STEM Community for educators, STEM Ambassadors can join their own Community to come together, find support and share ideas! “As a member, you can collaborate, ask for advice, share best practice and discover new ways to inspire young people with other volunteers, wherever they are in the UK.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 20, 2024

As someone who views cooking and baking as hobbies, not chores, I follow a lot of food bloggers and recipe developers on social media. I subscribe to many of their newsletters. I, well, make and eat a lot of their food. Yet I’ve only come across one who devotes back-to-school season to easing the financial burden on educators. Deb Perelman, the best-selling author and food blogger behind Smitten Kitchen, has been running the Classroom Wishlist Project for three years now.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 20, 2024

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are from members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, from tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate me

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