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3 steps to rethink failure

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Failure can be a painful experience for anyone, but it is especially tough for teens who are still forming a sense of self. When people experience failure, they often report feelings of embarrassment, shame and depression. But, as many educators know, failure is an essential part of the learning process. Define failure.

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5 ways to help special education students manage testing anxiety

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In special education programs, many of our students’ disabilities are closely related to anxiety, and testing can be a trigger that heightens those negative thoughts and feelings. In fact, studies have shown that test anxiety is actually the worst in the middle grades. However, testing anxiety affects students of all ages.

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Engaging the reluctant reader: Benefits of gamified learning in literacy education

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Educators need creative and authentic ways to engage students in reading without it seeming forced or gimmicky. Educators can apply the same principle to improving literacy outcomes through gamified learning in schools. Many educational games fall into this category. This approach especially helps reluctant readers.

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7 elements of successful special education programs

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Focusing on inclusion, using data, and forming partnerships are among the practices that can help make special education programs successful in schools, according to a new report. The qualitative study offers new insights into the best ways to serve students with disabilities in all schools, in particular the benefits of inclusive education.

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Massive Study of Online Teaching Ends With Surprising — and ‘Deflating’ — Result

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MIT professor Justin Reich and several colleagues just completed one of the largest-ever research studies exploring teaching techniques in online higher education, involving nearly 250,000 students from nearly every nation on the planet. After all, he and his collaborators did get significant results in their earlier, smaller studies.

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The Failure of Fast Education

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Over the last decade, as a rejection to a tired model of traditional higher education, new educational programs and structures have emerged. The new models of education take many forms. This failing is a direct result of fast education. These are all strategies that can be effective in an educational context.

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John King: ‘The Failure of National Leadership Is Being Visited Upon School Leaders’

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And for six months and counting, the virus has exposed existing inequities in our society and, in many cases, intensified them, especially in education. Department of Education John B. about the ongoing pandemic and the immense challenges it has created for education. On the Persistence of the Pandemic Sigh.

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