Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Middle school teachers often must focus on combating student distraction and loss of focus. And in high school, the chief concern is keeping up attendance. As an example, Trust pointed to an interdisciplinary choice board , which gives students multiple options for learning about a subject.

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Online Learning Interdisciplinary Lecturing Learning 216

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I was a certified high school math teacher, but like so many of my peers, I also taught advisory—working with students to develop their social skills and help them explore college and career options. Life is interdisciplinary, and while our education system has finally started to acknowledge this (e.g. Or anything else.”

Teaching 168

Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

In it, ACT researchers found evidence of grade inflation over the past decade—namely, that the average high school GPA increased 0.19 The implication is that students are not learning as much as their transcripts indicate, hampering their ability to succeed in challenging environments after high school. “We

Grades 161

Grades Testing Interdisciplinary STEM 161

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning. With the rise of AI comes AR/VR.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Whether high school graduates transition to college or a career, there is a good chance that they will tap into their creative skills. Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences.

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Peer Review Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking Communication 176

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. They write brief papers and give short oral reports, building skills and stamina they eventually will need to complete and present a capstone research project, their final assignment before they graduate. It was positive.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 176

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 7, 2025

The high school years are all about new experiences, self-reflection, and building skills to use throughout life. Well-crafted journal prompts for high schoolers accomplish all of these goals and they arent just for English class! What was the best thing that happened today? What about the worst? 3a, 3d, 3e; W.9-10.10,

High School 52

High School High School Schools Art 52

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Finally, the teachers were given an assignment: Use construction paper to create a craft symbolizing what they hope to take away from their time at the Smithsonian. Now she’s a high school biology and environmental science teacher in Hawaii who integrates lessons about public service into the curriculum.

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Teachers Education History Science 212

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2019

As a high school history teacher with 15 years of experience, this shouldn't have come as a surprise, but something about the way Carlin explained it awakened me that day. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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History Teachers Students Interdisciplinary 165

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Branch is known for his logical, easy-to-grasp course design, for his engaging assignments like The Armchair Anthropologist, and for the way his classes seem to fly by—which doesn’t happen by accident. In high school, I played sports, but another important part of my life was band and musical theatre. Source: Course Hero.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

He currently serves as the Proud Superintendent of the Texarkana Arkansas School District, where he is committed to making a lasting impact on students, educators, and the community. He later became the Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership for Kansas City Public Schools before taking the helm in Texarkana.

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Technology Teaching Methods Critical Thinking Learning Styles 130

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

Among the institute’s first project was designing and implementing a new public middle and high school in New York City. Its instructional model, informed by game-design principles, was less about playing games in schools and more focused on interdisciplinary, experiential learning. A 2017 survey of 1,550 U.S.

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Game-Based Learning Interdisciplinary Assignments Math 164

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A.

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Schools Languages Language Reading 246

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Students may have their minds on social plans, pending assignments, personal issues, or reflections on previous classes. Allowing students to share epiphanies they had encourages them to share and can sometimes lead to interdisciplinary connectivity. Padlet is a good digital tool. References Barbezat, D.P. and Bush, M.

Activities 111

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

Choose an interdisciplinary topic for broader appeal Freshmen often have not yet decided what their major would be, nor should they! Include raucous and hands-on learning experiences One of the culminating assignments for the class was an in-class, highly structured debate.

Critical Thinking 89

Critical Thinking Interdisciplinary History Syllabus 89

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Students may have their minds on social plans, pending assignments, personal issues, or reflections on previous classes. Allowing students to share epiphanies they had encourages them to share and can sometimes lead to interdisciplinary connectivity. Padlet is a good digital tool. References Barbezat, D.P. and Bush, M.

Activities 98

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 98

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 28, 2025

Youll find them useful for anything from homework assignments to in-class math activities. Practice algebraic expressions and operations Could your high schoolers use more review with one and two-step equations? It includes fractions, negatives, decimals, and variables on both sides, along with answer keys for each assignment.

Math 52

Math Assignments Interdisciplinary High School 52

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

If one student is working at a very challenging level, and another is working at a much more basic level, and they both do well on the assignment, should they get the same grade? Heather Messer , a teacher and advisor at a Wisconsin school where competency-based learning is a school-wide practice. They’re really curious.

Learning 74

Learning Knowledge Grades Feedback 74

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

High School 184

High School High School Schools Assignments 184

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

We not only assign writing in order to teach our content, but students also use writing to explore connections between assigned texts, lived experiences, and other course content. In a biology course, students might write a brief explanation of DNA replication as if they were explaining it to a high school student.

Writing 122

Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

We not only assign writing in order to teach our content, but students also use writing to explore connections between assigned texts, lived experiences, and other course content. In a biology course, students might write a brief explanation of DNA replication as if they were explaining it to a high school student.

Writing 105

Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 105

EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

When Neosho Junior High School teachers and students moved into a sleek, new campus last August, they said goodbye to traditional classrooms and hello to modern learning spaces that encourage mobility, collaboration and new ways of learning. The new school in Neosho, Mo., It becomes a school within a school,” Cryer says.

Learning 119

Learning Elementary School Elementary School Learning Spaces 119

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He tells me about his journey into the movement, how he drew himself out and how the experience shaped what he is doing now, after graduating high school. I took my gun out of my holster and shot until I couldn’t shoot” Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School (FLHF) is a portfolio curriculum school located in Bronx, N.Y.,

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Beliefs Learning Students Interdisciplinary 148