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MAY 9, 2024

Understanding implicit bias: Professional development sessions can begin by exploring the concept of implicit bias and its impact on teaching and learning. Educators can engage in activities and discussions to uncover their own biases and reflect on how these biases may influence their interactions with students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As a result, in this blog, we will look at the intrinsic values of learning games and how they might help with cognitive growth. Engaging Young Minds: The Power of Educational Bini Games for Cognitive Growth Cognitive development develops at a surprising rate during a child’s early years.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Research shows that by the age of 12, students will develop an economic understanding that researchers describe as “essentially adult”. We’ve seen social studies teachers include personal finance in their civics curriculum and math teachers use digital courses to teach topics like unit cost.

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MARCH 15, 2019

As students enter high school, it appears the emphasis may shift too much on the side of cognitive development and not enough on the social-emotional side. Thomas’ family helped bring the documentary and global healthcare discussion to the school as part of their work to support PIH.

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Teaching Cognitive Development Discussions Academic Development 159

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. In my experience introducing the problem-based curriculum Imagine IM to teachers, professional learning is key to helping teachers make that shift.

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Problem-Based Learning Math Education Learning 196

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JULY 31, 2020

In an ordinary year, when schools let out for the summer, many students experience learning loss —also known as “summer slide”—where their knowledge retention and cognitive development slows or recedes. About 230 miles east of Hampshire, in Knoxville, Tenn.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 3, 2019

Thank you, Jane Sandwood, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, for discussing some of the online options to make teaching music easier, more effective. You can also use this as a basis for discussion about composition and how music has evolved over the centuries. New Statistics Linking Music Education to Cognitive Development.

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