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Flip Your Back-to-School Night

Catlin Tucker

So, three years ago I began flipping my Back-to-School Night presentation in the hopes of reaching more of my parents. This is how I flip my Back-to-School Night. Quick Introduction – My Teaching Philosophy. I introduce myself to parents and share my teaching philosophy.

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Educators Honored with YouScience® Innovative Educator Award

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With over 20 years of teaching experience, Darren Zink, along with Megan Holloway (3 years) and Paige Kanaly (5 years), share a group of 90 students and help them connect what they’re learning in the classroom with the real world.

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How to Be an Antiracist Educator: An Interview With Ibram X. Kendi

Edsurge

During the conversation with EdSurge, Kendi shared his perspective about inequitable education outcomes and how antiracist policy changes could benefit the students who grow up with the least access to resources in their homes and schools. “I Does the book reflect your own teaching style or teaching philosophy?

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Thinking Outside the Music Box: Using Digital Tools to Teach Music and More

Edsurge

It also helps them tune into learning experiences that are meaningful, personal, and easy to access in their everyday lives. Engaging the ‘Other 80 Percent’ In high school, research shows that only 20 percent of students participate in band, orchestra and choral programs. It is another musical tool that I can use to reach them.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

Edsurge

At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student. By March 2000, during her senior year of high school, Ruth Cady was chatting with her assigned freshman roommate. She’s trying to show them her teaching philosophy, she explains.

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Taking Grades (Stress) Out of Learning 

Faculty Focus

This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. To accompany this teaching philosophy, I adopt ungrading 2 in all my courses. 1 Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (Beijing, China: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1998). Accessed on December 29, 2024.

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Teachable Moments: Connecting With Students In — and Out — of the Classroom

Edsurge

It’s often said that teaching and learning doesn’t always take place in the classroom—some of the most important lessons are learned on the playground, in the street, on the job or somewhere else. The same is true for educators, whose teaching philosophies are often shaped by moments that happened when they weren't in front of the classroom.

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