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5 strategies for turning boredom into brilliance

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Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting! Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention.

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Turning classroom boredom into student brilliance

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Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting! Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention.

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

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For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. Extensive lecturing is not a good use of your time, or learners’ time, in synchronous online learning.

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Why Taking Risks in the Classroom Pays off for Students—and Teachers

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For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. My classroom was set up with desks in rows and my lessons included lectures with PowerPoint presentations, worksheets and textbook work. The more I learned about flipping my classroom, the more fears that developed.

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Is competency-based learning the next big thing in school reform?

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Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. A school full of students progressing at different rates could “wreak havoc” on classroom management, said Craig Harper, a spokesman for the Professional Association of Georgia Educators.

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Teacher Support in the Digital-Blended Classroom

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Digital resources can save teachers innumerable hours of planning, grading, assigning, and assessing in the classroom. As online resources develop and create more curricula, teachers will transform classroom dynamics by devoting less time to lecturing and spending more time enriching and mentoring. About the Author.

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22 Digital Tools You Must Have in Your Classroom

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If you aren’t using blogs by Middle School, the only question is: Why not? Note-taking doesn’t usually start until fourth/fifth grade, maybe even as late as Middle School. Flipped Classroom. Digital Note-taking. 4th-8th, important, 4. Digital note-taking blows all of those reasons out of the water.

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