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Video of the Week: Making group work a win for your students

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Having kids work together promotes cooperation, builds social-emotional skills, and gets them engaged in active learning. Group work, on the other hand, tends to come with challenges. Some students feel like they do all the work, others feel left out, motivation wanes, and assignments seem to get cobbled together.

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Curriculum trend: 4 ways to become more competency-based

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Later the teacher will review the groups work and provide them with feedback directed at the competencies they are working to achieve. A nearby laptop is open and readily available so students can use it to clarify or search for additional information.

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Letting Students Lead the Learning

Catlin Tucker

” As a teacher, it’s my job to engage student curiosity, interest and passion in relation to the curriculum. Then groups worked together to write a project proposal explaining how they were going to execute this project.

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7 reasons to ditch recipe-style science labs

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And while the curriculum was structured in a logical manner, it also includes engaging design elements and leaves plenty of room for students to ask questions, solve problems, and troubleshoot. TinkRworks could be its own curriculum because it really does hit a lot of the benchmarks that we want it to hit. It’s all-encompassing.

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Back to Basics: Lesson Planning for the Concurrent Classroom

Catlin Tucker

When teachers feel pressure to cover the curriculum or keep up with a pre-pandemic pacing guide, it is easy to understand why they spend more time introducing information and less time supporting students as they attempt to master content knowledge or skills.

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10 activities to integrate SEL in your classroom

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If you find yourself wondering what that means for teachers or how you can integrate SEL activities into your curriculum and classroom, these 10 activities are a great place to start. Partner and group work. Group/partner projects are important to encourage communication, emotional awareness, teamwork, and accountability.

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PBL isn’t used enough–let’s change that

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Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. One of the most significant benefits of PBL is that it addresses students’ questions as they learn, fostering curiosity and perseverance in learning as opposed to having to stick to a specific curriculum.

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