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Tips for Supporting Students With Special Needs Using Technology

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Whether it’s a learning disability, physical impairment, or sensory issue, recognizing these elements will guide you in selecting the right technological tools. By integrating technology, you can create opportunities for students to work together, regardless of their physical location or learning challenges.

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As Schools Prioritize Digital Literacy, My Students Are Being Left Behind

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As a physics teacher, I am supposed to teach Newtons Laws of motion and how electricity works. When I gave one of my first assessments to a 10th grade physics class in 2022, one of the questions was a picture of a graph with a line that said, Find the slope of this line. as I circulated throughout the room to help.

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Groundhog Day and the 100th Day of School

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Some examples are: 50+50 102-2 400/4 5*20 4(20+5) the square root of 100 + 90 PE Physical activities during winter often become calisthenics or personal fitness, exercises that can be done indoors or in the gym. Another indoor physical activity is walking 100 steps and measuring where you end up.

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This School Nurse Explains How Her Work Goes Beyond ‘Band-Aids, Boo-Boos and Head Lice’

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We had 10 schools, and I was able to do more with staff, do bus driver physicals and those things, and be part of the administrative team for the district. I didn't know that I would stay working in school health, but the role, it just kind of worked. So I started doing more. I worked in a fairly small district at the time.

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Why Don’t Early Childhood Programs Have Access to Substitute Teachers?

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Its physically, emotionally and psychologically demanding work, and we provide no respite, from a system or policy level, for this, she adds. We dont afford that kind of support to educators who, frankly, spend all of their time with tiny germ factories who are constantly getting themselves and everybody else sick, Hogan says.

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Relationships Are Key to Kids’ Growth — And They’re in Crisis, Expert Says

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But she shared another number that I thought was in some ways equally, if not more, concerning: Before the pandemic even occurred, 40 percent of young children did not have a strong emotional connection with their mothers. I'm speaking about physical activities. Maybe this is an exceptional data point.

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Groundhog Day and the 100th Day of School

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Physical activities during winter often become calisthenics or personal fitness, exercises that can be done indoors or in the gym. jumping jacks, sit-ups, and deep knee bends) to learn the concept that 10 sets of 10 equal 100. Another indoor physical activity is walking 100 steps and measuring where you end up. Vocabulary.

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