eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

And Singapore launched a tailored coding class for primary and secondary school students as early as 2014. The value of learning how to code isn’t only in the skill itself; it’s in the way of thinking, and that transfers to many other subjects. Why is coding in the K-12 classroom important?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 21, 2022

We all need classroom management tips and first-day back stations are one of those you can use any time of the year. Right now, this is more important than ever as classrooms return from quarantine, teachers handoff substitute teachers, students come back to school from spring break, or a classroom may get off track and need a fresh start.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

These are important skills for students to master, not least because of the growing demand for science and STEM professionals. Here in California, like other states nationwide, the STEM job market is rapidly growing but students are still graduating without the skills and knowledge needed to fill these high-paying jobs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

We’ll also be giving away of their book Blended Vocabulary for K12 Classrooms: Harnessing the Power of Digital tools and Direct Instruction and you can enter by clicking here and following the instructions. How modeling vocabulary acquisition is important. How to Use Vocabulary Builder on Your Kindle Paperwhite.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 29, 2020

They know how to do distance learning. In this session, we’ll share where we are now, emotional trauma and learning, how effective distance learning compares to face to face learning, how to take your class online, accessibility and equity, assessment, and project-based learning. She received her M.Ed.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AI literacy enables educators to understand how AI works, how to evaluate it and how to best adapt it for their disciplines and learners. How Students Use AI to Design Solutions for Their Community How Using AI Optimizes Instruction and Learning in Secondary Writing Can AI Help Teachers With Grading?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Our students are spread across 31 elementary schools, two pre-K schools, and seven secondary schools. For example, a kindergarten lesson on algorithms is integrated into “how to” procedures for a fire drill. With 30 elementary buildings and six secondary buildings that I oversee, linking teachers across the district can be a struggle.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2021

10 Ways to Move Forward: Learning Gaps, SEL, and Practical Tips to Take Your Classroom Further Post-Pandemic. She is also a former teacher and principal, leading one of the first elementary STEM schools in Iowa. in Secondary Education from Ball State University. I took this picture last month in my classroom.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. STEM should be a catalyst for active learning. Launching a STEM Council Seal of Approval for programs (e.g. Over 5,100 applications were submitted for STEM Scale-Up Grants. Numerous STEM externships are available for teachers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

Today, Starr Sackstein @mssackstein shares 5 feedback strategies to supercharge your writing instruction and classroom culture. In today’s show, Starr Sackstein discusses 5 peer review strategies for the classroom including: Having a class culture for positive peer feedback. How to empower kids to be experts. Listen Now.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nationally, English learners (ELs) make up nearly 10 percent of PK-12 classrooms and almost 15 percent of urban classrooms, and these numbers are on the rise. Over multiple years, below grade-level content learning limits ELs’ science knowledge as well as access to secondary and post-secondary STEM programs and careers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

. — Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. question answered afterward. It left an impression.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I And the coursework, I never felt I learned terribly much from any of my classes, but it was very much secondary. You talk about needing to change the paradigm of teaching physics and other STEM fields. Broadly, what do you think should change?

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. If you don’t focus on the educators, then what is that classroom environment like for a teacher who’s undergoing a traumatic experience ?

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Project Tomorrow is celebrating Speak Up America Week 2014 this week with opportunities for schools and classrooms to win prizes and grants by participating in this year''s Speak Up surveys. After winning the $500 prize last year, I purchased an XYZ 3D printer to integrate STEM into my classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

That legislation prompted a major shift in our instructional focus that ushered more students toward careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). That is to say, when our students embark on their post-secondary journeys, they should have what they need to succeed in whichever journey they choose.

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Digital Promise

JULY 19, 2018

In classrooms across the U.S., No student (or teacher) leaves their language patterns at the door when they enter a classroom – even classes like math and science, where language is often seen as secondary. How can educators make sure that teaching and learning in their diverse classrooms is effective and equitable?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2016

High-quality instruction in STEM requires both teaching expertise and content knowledge. Yet, at the elementary school level, many teachers haven’t had any specialized education or training in science, leaving them at a loss for PD in STEM. We’ve also learned a few PD in STEM lessons along the way. Here are a few: 1.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2016

Today’s students, being technology natives, expect the same kinds of engagement in the classroom as they seek out online. STEM classes in particular have a natural potential to be both tech-rich and inquiry-based, especially hands-on lab activities. Technology helps students acquire scientific literacy and hands-on experience.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

On the other hand, many feel that the most useful indications they have aren’t data but instead their own observations about how students are reacting to the technology. teacher and tech coach from Georgia who “loves conducting classroom visits” to get a firsthand look at students on tech platforms. Rachel Pierson, K-6 STEM Teacher.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: Your learners don’t come to your classroom with perfect math, language arts, science and social studies skills. They also don’t automatically know how to cope with emotions and stress, view different perspectives with empathy and solve problems socially.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Could we be missing an opportunity where emphasizing social emotional learning in the classroom could actually benefit students even more than pre-pandemic research suggests? So, what have researchers discovered about social emotional learning in the classroom? SEL in the Classroom Improves Academic Performance.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2019

ET for a webinar “ How to Create Powerful STEM Learning Experiences with Technology, ” where I will share more about student collaboration, the engineering design process, and project-based learning. Join me on Tuesday, October 15 at 6 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report Kindergarten may be math’s most important year — it lays the groundwork for understanding the relationship between number and quantity and helps develop “number sense,” or how numbers relate to each other, experts and researchers say.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Years ago, when Woodfin attended Union Public Schools from kindergarten through eighth grade, she sat in fairly homogenous classrooms. Shannan Bittle, a secondary math specialist for Union, said new academic programs — like aviation and construction — could offer students more ways to apply higher levels of math in lucrative jobs. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The state education agency also established a committee to advise the state on how to bring the TEAACH Act to life in schools and produced a webinar series to support the mandate’s implementation. As a PD facilitator, Hurh says she prioritizes modeling how to incorporate Asian American history in a way that treats the community with dignity.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Here are 24 different games and structures you can use that will infuse laughter and joy into your classroom. When testing and data seem to rule over the day-to-day life of a teacher, we need to remember what power we do have to create the classroom we want. These are needed in the classroom, not just nice-to-have.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

On an ordinary June morning, kids descend on the campus of Auburn University to try science experiments at the college of education’s annual STEM camp. I want to make sure my undergrads are thinking about their impact outside of a formal classroom,” says Martina P. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 15, 2021

How we start the school year communicates who we expect students are and how we expect students will act. Informed by our prior experiences in the classroom, these expectations become a form of bias that can create rigid roles for both students and ourselves that we then spend the entire year navigating.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Educators can refine instruction to keep students motivated with the classroom engagement tool, Quiz. Quiz gives multiple ways to promote active learning in the classroom and track progress in real time. More ready-to-use tools to assess student outcomes and address learning gaps. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

I wanted to get answers to these questions from teachers who have extensive Makerspace experience, and not just at the secondary level. It mixes all aspects of STEM–Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math–and sprinkles it with imagination for an exploration of “what if.”. G, are there extra popsicles sticks?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In this show Tisha Poncio shares her tips on digital portfolios and classroom teaching. Learn how to plan ahead to allow for project based learning and digital portfolios and best practices for implementing them in the classroom. I am a project based learning classroom and have joined the pilot. Try out Tract today!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As a society ever more reliant on technology and STEM-based careers, we must shatter the myth that math skill is inborn and reinforce that it is the result of intention and practice. Change the belief that mathematical ability is inborn, focusing on parents’ attitudes and how they are communicated to children. Sounds odd, doesn’t it?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

It’s one of several initiatives that promise to make AI as common in the classroom as it’s becoming in our lives. elementary and secondary schools teach the subject, maybe because there are so few curricula available for students. Club STEM director Christine Nguyen said she was grateful for the opportunity. But few U.S.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Asante Johnson is a technology integration coach and STEM teacher at District of Columbia Public Schools ’ Wheatley Education Campus. When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2015

Welcome to the fourth article in a series devoted to facilitating proper student internet interaction in the classroom. This classroom might be 1 to 1 or might be using technology to leverage student centered learning. If you are attending, check out my STEM and Maker’s Session. How to report content on YouTube.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

As society becomes increasingly dependent on social media sites for consuming information and as a personal pulpit for ideas and opinions, schools and classrooms need to become the primary source of instruction on how to prepare students for effective offline and online discourse.

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