Middle Web

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Recounting her visit from a grandfatherly apparition grabbed the attention of Stephanie Farley’s students and launched a study of storytelling. Putting “stunt teaching” into action – sometimes with colleagues – builds engagement and opens the door to choice, challenge and play. The post Teaching Stunts Offer Choice, Challenge, Play first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Know Adam's Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2023

One of the most important things we can teach our students, no matter what grade level or topic you teach, is how to ask good questions. When I think about this important topic, I can't help but consider how my teaching style has changed over the past 20 years. Today, when I think about how to support student centered learning in my classroom, I want to make sure that I am modeling good questions.

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Ms. Boyce

OCTOBER 22, 2023

This week saw the start of our second STEAM Lab Unit - Robotics! Ms. Hernandez & Ms. Nicholson's classes learned about the Monarch migration and created maps to reenact it with the BeeBots. Ms. Amos and Mr. Garza's classes explored various Earth/Space natural cycles such as night and day, planetary orbits, and moon phases to recreate with the ozobots. 4th and 5th grade programmed the mBots to perform tasks from historical space missions they researched such as Mercury-Atlas 6, Apollo 11, and

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Newton STEM

OCTOBER 22, 2023

MIT’s Splash program runs for two days each year on the weekend before Thanksgiving — running in-person this year on November 18-19. Students in Grades 9-12 can take a wide range of mini-courses taught by MIT undergraduates and participate in drop-in activities. This year, Splash! is offering over 180 courses including many in Science , Computer Science , Engineering , and Mathematics.

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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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Newton STEM

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Each fall and spring, NEPTUN (a Northeastern University student group) hosts Splash! , a free program for students in Grades 8-12 to take fun and informative mini-classes led by Northeastern undergraduate students. This year, Splash! will again be held in-person at Ryder Hall (11 Leon St, Boston) on the Northeastern campus, on November 11 , 8:30AM-6:40PM.

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