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

k12 Digest

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible.

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The Key to Better Student Engagement Is Letting Them Show You How They Learn

Edsurge

Curriculum can be compacted. Learning gaps can be filled. Investment in social-emotional learning has taken on a new urgency, and through this work we can empower students to understand their own unique impediments to engagement and make that thinking visible to us. But emotional injury is harder to overcome.

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The psychology of motivation: Strategies for engaging students

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When creating a learning space that stimulates students’ motivation through the recognition of their own values, teachers can combine external incentives in a very careful way, which creates a classroom where students are willing to learn new things, explore new ideas and work harder to reach their full potential.

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Three Career Paths for Educational Innovators—How to Get There and Where the Jobs Are

Edsurge

We should all have our personal mission and belief system, I know what I want to do and I’m not going to be sheepish about that. The design process can focus on building apps, curriculum, exploring new pedagogy, creating educational content, as well as building out innovative learning spaces—both virtual and place-based.

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#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”

EdTech Magazine

Eric Sheninger and Tom Murray share their expertise on modern learning spaces. Murray and Sheninger, co-authors of Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today , published by ASCD in 2017, will be featured speakers at the #ICE18 conference in Schaumburg, Ill., They want learning to be personal.

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Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Faculty Focus

ii] Contrary to common belief, neurodiverse students represent a significant proportion of the higher education population. of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability. We also list a few simple suggestions for improving learning spaces. Learning spaces I.

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Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

Faculty Focus

ii] Contrary to common belief, neurodiverse students represent a significant proportion of the higher education population. of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability. We also list a few simple suggestions for improving learning spaces. Learning spaces I.