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Amazing Apprenticeships: Online Parent & Carer Magazine

All About STEM

Amazing Apprenticeships has just released the latest edition of Choices Magazine. Choices is the ultimate parent and carer guide to apprenticeships and technical education and is available online every month. In this month’s issue, you can discover five ways to search for vacancies, learn about engineering careers, find SEND resources and hear top tips from a BBC Bitesize Career Coach.

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Empowering Teachers: Going Beyond an Hour in Computer Science Education

CoderZ

As we wrap up Computer Science Education Week, we would like to send out a big Thank you! to all of the teachers bringing computing education to the next generation, with a special shout out to those who are jumping in with no prior experience in the subject. The growth mindset and curiosity that you model for your students is just as valuable as any lesson on loops or conditionals, and the personal relationships that you bring to the learning process cannot be replicated by even the most sophis

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Classroom Management Mistakes and How to Correct Them

Teach Hub

Classroom management goes beyond disciplining your students and trying to keep them in line, its having the ability to manage all aspects of your classroom effectively. From creating and communicating your rules and procedures, to creating lessons and transitioning between them. For many teachers, classroom management is a constant struggle often shaped by trial and error.

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Students Engaging with Content and Each Other

Middle Web

Lauren Porosoffs Teach for Authentic Engagement seamlessly ties together the big ideas of student engagement with easy-to-follow protocols, , writes Laurie Miller Hornik. The book delves into the 3 spheres in which the student can engage: the content, their work, and each other. The post Students Engaging with Content and Each Other first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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Narwhals

STEMe

Houston, TX Known fondly all over the world as the unicorn of the sea, the narwhals are just as unique as they are elusive. Narwhals ( Monodon monoceros ) are porpoises ( porpoise). They belong to the cetacean family Monodontidae , which includes only 2 living species: the beluga whale and narwhals Other species of this family are now extinct. They were discovered and described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 book, Systema Naturae.