Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Teachers might break down lectures in bite-sized video clips, and use live streaming, or synchronous, time to conduct wellness checks with students and connect with them individually or in smaller groups. Middle school teachers often must focus on combating student distraction and loss of focus.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. After a family discussion, we decided he would repeat Algebra 1 in ninth grade,” Lynem, a journalism lecturer, wrote in CalMatters.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

high school science teacher Nicole Vick says that new approaches to science teaching over the past few years, including the introduction of new standards, has encouraged more hands-on activities and personal relevance that makes the subject more meaningful to students. New Approaches to New Topics In rural Abingdon, Ill., she says. “It

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2018

Far too often, PD agendas are set without any input from teachers and do not include time to reflect or discuss real classroom application. Far too often, strategies and tools are discussed once, and then never again. We use our four days differently, with more small-group discussions and teacher-directed time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Numerous online resources exist where you can find lecture notes, study guides, and other helpful materials. homework, lecture notes, practice tests). Keeping lecture notes, study guides, and other resources well-organized saves time and reduces the frustration of searching for materials during study sessions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook. I thought, “This is going to be great.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We discussed how the pandemic affected students, parents, and teachers alike in the United States and Argentina. In a comprehensive article written for BMC Public Health Distance learning in Italian primary and middle school children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey , the study revealed gaps in access.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

High school students have created prototypes for innovations that redefine how we travel in the air and support sustainable living on Mars. Teachers can encourage the type of reflection and iteration that is so essential to success in the workforce through think/pair/share discussions, journaling and blogging.

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Critical Thinking Schools STEM Science 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two years later. Social Studies / Current Events.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2017

When asking around, several folks we talked to praised Teaching in Higher Ed as a podcast with particularly engaging discussions. Teaching Strategies Cult of Pedagogy Podcast Jennifer Gonzalez, a former middle school teacher, hosts this podcast as part of her popular blog on teaching strategies, education reform, and ed tech.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

These questions and more are echoing through the special education ecosystem while federal recommendations and guidelines pivot aggressively around discussion of waivers, accountability and budgets. is Executive Director and Chief Scientist at EdTogether and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

The problem might boil down to a misunderstanding of what active learning actually is, and how it can encompass an entire curriculum, even when teachers rarely deliver traditional lectures. Cator cites Carroll Magnet Middle School in North Carolina as a school that has embraced the challenge-based ethos.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta. A former wildlife biologist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, he has been teaching since 2005.

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STEM Laboratory Peer Review Schools 141

Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

Many of our institutions have been using a variety of lecture capture solutions over the years, but Panopto has really stood out as a partner for accommodating those with accessibility challenges,” Quarles says. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2016

After much discussion, our team recognized that it is human nature to “default” back to what we know works, especially if the environment remains the same. The lecture and the ole’ stand-and-deliver models of traditional practice tend to continue forward, resulting in little to no change in instructional practice.

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Lecturing Learning Spaces Classroom Design Middle School 100

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Some teachers who would ask you to go to theirs made the class tedious, because you had to sit there for a hour and a half while you listen to this lecture when you've already got the concepts. Amanda Regan: Virtual High School called it “asynchronous,” so there's no set time where you have to sit in on a lecture or anything like that.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

In July, three members from EdSurge Independent, a student-run group that meets weekly to discuss ideas around higher education and technology, joined EdSurge Live to share what they wish faculty knew about students today, and propose ways to fuse instructional gaps. They’re creating their own surveys and say, "How do you feel about this?"

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games.

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

In such schools, replicative uses of technology are quite common, but transformative uses that leverage the unique affordances of technology are quite rare. Teachers who used to lecture with a chalkboard or whiteboard may now lecture with an expensive interactive whiteboard.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

And then that was followed by putting me in a lecture center because my class got so big. I propose teachers do the traditional lecture, textbook method for 80 percent of the time. And it could be offered at the middle school level. It could be offered at the high school level. Should we believe this?

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High School High School Teaching Schools 112

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2019

She is a welcome presenter at keynotes, lectures, and workshops. Richard Byrne is a former high school social studies teacher at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Maine. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and author with broad pedagogical and technical knowledge, down-to-earth honest, and a sense of humor.

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Knowledge Classroom Management Lecturing Social Studies 72

Teach Thought

MAY 18, 2025

Grant Wiggins offered a definition for the Socratic Seminar — something he would also call simply a ‘Seminar’: “A Seminar is a question-focused, student-led, and teacher-facilitated discussion, based on appropriate texts. Whatever we call it, a seminar is different from a talk/recitation/ lecture-with-discussion.

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Critical Thinking Coaching Discussions Evaluation 52

k12 Online Schools

JULY 5, 2024

From online schooling for elementary and middle school to high schools online , the top K12 online schools offer flexible, structured, and engaging programs. The K12 online school curriculum is designed to cater to all learning styles and ensure a solid educational foundation.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

The two discuss Dr. Peterson’s work at Penn and what they’ve each learned through their respective research on ways race and ethnicity help shape everything about a student’s academic development. We're located in a building in the middle of campus with two other cultural centers, La Casa Latina and PAACH. Transcript [music] 0:00:12.4

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This meant I was consistently rewarded at school for putting my head down and striving to be a “good student” and “high achiever,” but never for challenging authority or speaking up when something was wrong. I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D. Wait, what? I spoke up.

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Education Schools Questions Culture 169

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2021

It’s also interesting to see how the “lecture” pedagogy is becoming outdated as we teach and learn online. Instead of holding a lecture, what if we offered a recording that students view ahead of time? Giving students the opportunity to feel involved, valued and appreciated is critical, especially in the online classroom.

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