eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These skills–often referred to as soft skills, but also known as durable skills for their importance in the workplace–are a focus of 21st-century classrooms. Science, technology, engineering, and math are broad but dynamic subjects that contain innumerable and specific learning concepts. What are 3 benefits of STEM?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. For a student, individual attention can make the difference between effectively developing skills and just coasting along.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

A quarter of them had mastered the skills and were ready to apply what they had learned about fractions to solving linear equations. About half showed competency with the skills, but were still making numerous errors. High school math curriculum is bullet-pointed into units, chapters, subheadings and indicators.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2020

Success in our modern economy demands a wide set of skills, including content knowledge, digital literacy, leadership and strong problem-solving abilities. All students need to develop these skills. Creating opportunities for young people to teach one other builds skills, confidence and relationships among both mentors and mentees.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

BEGiN is best known for offering a pair of early-education apps: Learn & Grow, which offers digital reading activities for kids ages 2 to 8, and Learn & Play, which provides games, stories and songs that introduce foundational skills to children up to age 3. Both are sold under the brand name Homer, acquired by BEGiN in 2017.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2016

But when we dove in, our math teachers quickly encountered critical content that just didn't translate. For computer science , this means we have done a tremendous amount of in-house curriculum design. We chose the AP Computer Science A and AP CS Principles standards to anchor our curriculum in external metrics.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The gaming devices aren’t being treated as contraband anymore, at least not in the 100 K-12 schools that have welcomed Nintendo products into their classrooms this year to help students develop collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. He remembers hearing about it and eagerly submitting an application.

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Tunstalls Teaching Tidbits

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

These special samples of Total Math include Free Candy Hearts Graphing Lessons Data & Math Printables for K-2. Graphing Data With Candy Hearts Graphing with candy hearts is the perfect way to make this essential skill hands-on, engaging, and fun. Tag #TotalMath on social media–we love seeing math in action!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Filling the Gaps Subjects like English and lower-level math are well-covered in the OER ecosystem. It’s a good combination of community and equity and purposeful curriculum design,” Egan says. They can add chapters as new skills become in-demand by employers or choose the format that works best for their classes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

With Kolibri, we provide a free and open-source learning platform that's really designed for learners with limited digital literacy skills, so there aren’t as many barriers to adoption. But another important aspect is thinking about digital literacy skills and digital rights.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

These rapidly changing times challenge educators to find areas of work that are hard in the right way: they must connect with the kids and also with the areas of knowledge, skills—and don’t let us forget ethnics—adults will need for the future world.” Learning Stories. If their public failed to learn they would go out of business.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Curricular Lessons : A range of ready-to-teach lessons designed to support the K-8 curriculum across Maths, Science, English and Art. Canva Education Library: More than 5,000 new free classroom resources across Maths, Science, Art and Design curriculums.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

Neither are those that mention “innovation” and “21st century skills” in their mission statements. Around that time, Ashton read about the high demand for skilled workers in computer science—a growing field that offers high-paying jobs, with a starting salary around $65,000 per year.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

But you should consider a handful of the key requirements that each job description lists and incorporate into your resume how you can deliver these skills. Did you rapidly improve test scores during your time as an 8th grade math teacher? Are you looking to expand as a Curriculum Designer? Give them the numbers.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Badges and Levels: Acknowledge milestones like mastering a math topic or reading five books in a month. Why It Works Harvards Project Zero found that students are more likely to retain information and develop critical thinking skills when they are allowed to explore their interests and make choices.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

On the surface, they educate students in math, science, and literature. But equally important is the less visible curriculum: the transmission of norms, values, customs, and shared identity. Its a skill. Participate in cultural events where subtitles are the norm, making multilingualism feel like a skill, not a barrier.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They entered the program with a real desire to focus deeply on what it meant to have a more effective personalized learning experience in math—including everything from curriculum design and the use of technology to the roles of teachers and students in the classroom and the adoption of “passion projects.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2022

Aiming to improve Kenyan students’ base math skills, it had distributed over 3 million textbooks, appraised nearly 30,000 teachers, and its national student information system had registered 96 percent of all students nationwide. By 2019, the World Bank’s PRIEDE project had exceeded several of its goals. hours to 10 minutes.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

These are the skills that are in high demand and those are the skills we really try to foster in our students,” he said. Too often our children get to the point, whether it’s the end of high school or into college, where they have significant deficits in math and science that limit their options,” Bertram said. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

Researchers have even coined a term, the “teacher pay penalty,” to refer to the fact that the average teacher earns about 20 percent less than accountants, journalists, inspectors and computer engineers—professions that require a similar skill set and education. This is not something we would do in any other profession.”

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