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5 educators share insights into teaching and learning

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Inspiring district leaders, classroom teachers, and school staff have found unique and innovative ways to engage students in learning, motivating students to see beyond classroom walls and truly immerse themselves in learning. Read more about Ross-Kleinmann’s thoughts on AI in schools. PBL isn’t used enough–let’s change that.

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How Building Bonds in the Classroom Can Motivate Better Teaching

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Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. Examples of survey items used by students to evaluate teachers via the Network for Educator Effectiveness. This teacher makes lessons interesting.

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Researchers develop preschool STEM education curriculum

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Despite the evidence that introducing STEM during the pre-kindergarten years supports children’s cognitive development and positive attitudes toward learning and inquiry, there is very little STEM instruction in pre-kindergarten classrooms.

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

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In particular, the age and cognitive development of your students has a profound impact on their ability to succeed in different online learning environments. There is a direct relationship between executive function development and the effectiveness of different types of learning activities.

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It’s Time to Ditch the Idea of Edtech Disruption. But What Comes Next?

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COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. This way of thinking about technology has been core to many pitches made by edtech providers to schools and, I’d argue, it has outsized influence on how most of us think about edtech. or “does LOGO work?”

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4 Long-Term Benefits of Bilingual Education

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These schools can focus on your mother tongue, English, as well as other languages that your child might be interested in acquiring. A Boost in Cognitive Development. In 2011, a team of scholars tested two groups of students who were taking English as a foreign language in school.

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The Case for Expanding the Definition of 'Personalization' to Meet the Needs of the Whole Child

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Decades of research on child and adolescent development has shed powerful light on how we can best support student development. But here's what we should all find unacceptable: We have yet to widely reflect that learning in how we educate students in our schools. math, literacy, science, social studies, foreign language, art).