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Special education students need a whole child approach

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At Ulster, we have designed our services around the belief that the student must be at the center of their educational experience. But we need to get to a place where we look beyond the IEP; to help that child articulate who they are and what they aspire to be. Building Community Around Each Student.

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Who You Gonna Call? A Harvard Lecturer's Quest for Equitable Class Participation

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The data disproved his belief: He’d only heard from female students around one-third of the time, even though they made up nearly half his class. “It While Levy created the app to automate part of the process involved in documenting class participation, it still requires some manual assistance.

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5 Higher-Ed Innovators Share Challenges, Ideas for the Future of Digital Learning

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Here is a recap of the event, adapted from a blog post by NovoEd : Suzanne Gibbs Howard, Dean, IDEO U Suzanne Gibbs Howard, dean at IDEO U , says her university’s imperative is teaching creativity and problem-solving. To scale this capability, IDEO formed IDEO U and developed the capability to teach these skills online.

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The Future Is Adaptive: An Interview with TrueShelf’s Shiva Kintali

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It also sparked his belief that textbooks could evolve from something static into more fluid resources that adapt to students’ readiness levels. Shiva Kintali: As a teaching assistant at Georgia Tech and while teaching at Princeton, I developed an interest in helping my students learn mathematical concepts in a fun and intuitive way.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

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Finally, another clicker quiz could give you the opportunity to assess whether they took in the new information and restructured their previously held beliefs. It also serves teachers by providing a formative assessment tool through which they can evaluate both their own teaching and the progress of the classroom.

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How To Make Someone Not Hate Math

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At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. For some reason, it’s a common belief that everyone who goes into fields such as math, economics or computer science is brilliant, probably in part because those fields are financially rewarding, Miller-Cotto says.

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Three Districts Took the Long View With Federal Relief Funds. Their Bets Are Paying Off.

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Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning.

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