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AEF Schools: Empowering Students with Individualized Learning, Social Growth, and Real-World Skills

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Maybe they forget to turn in assignments, have trouble organizing their thoughts, or feel overwhelmed by fast-paced lessons. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. At AEF Schools, these students arent overlookedtheyre understood.

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Why I Stopped Starting Class with Content—and What Happened Instead

Faculty Focus

What I Do Now (and What I Don’t) Let me make it clear—I still teach frameworks. I still assign readings. Since then, I’ve started every class not with content, but with creative tension. But I don’t start there anymore. I start here: Step 1: Open with a real-word paradox Something messy. Something provocative.

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Why I Stopped Starting Class with Content—and What Happened Instead

Faculty Focus

What I Do Now (and What I Don’t) Let me make it clear—I still teach frameworks. I still assign readings. Since then, I’ve started every class not with content, but with creative tension. But I don’t start there anymore. I start here: Step 1: Open with a real-word paradox Something messy. Something provocative.

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Teacher Shortage Solutions: How To Find the Best Educators

Elevate k12

High workload: Besides teaching classes, grading assignments and exams, and providing feedback, full-time teachers must plan lessons, attend meetings and professional development programs, and organize extracurricular activities. Retired teachers may not be up-to-date with the latest teaching methods, strategies, and technologies.

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Grade Assignments with PDF Tools

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I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested?

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To Make Assignments More Meaningful, I’m Giving Students a More Authentic Audience

Edsurge

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. I like to think of this shift as a transition from content-based to issues-based curriculum.

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Troubleshooting the Flipped Classroom: Dealing with Unprepared Students

Catlin Tucker

auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. The benefit of assigning video instruction for homework is that students can control the time, place, and pace of the learning experience when they watch the video at home.