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Tired of the Same Old Professional Development? Let Students Lead.

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requiring my students to write an agenda), and offering feedback affirmed an important part of my teaching philosophy: creating engaging learning experiences requires honoring students’ autonomy and centering students’ lived experiences.

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‘Press Play’ Isn’t a Teaching Strategy: Why Educators Need New Methods for Video

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Given that YouTube continues to be chocked full of educational videos that are often accessible and custom-captioned, perhaps we don’t have to reinvent the wheel or become DIY videographers to find an approach to video-based learning that matches our teaching philosophy?

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Thinking Outside the Music Box: Using Digital Tools to Teach Music and More

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During my 20 years as a music teacher and band director at Far Hills Country Day School, a Pre-K through 8 independent school in Far Hills, New Jersey, I have had wonderful success integrating music across multiple curriculums, including history, math, science, writing, PE, art and world languages.

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How to Be an Antiracist Educator: An Interview With Ibram X. Kendi

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You write that “racist policies are the cause of racial inequities” and that “policies determine the success of groups.” What does that mean for education? Does the book reflect your own teaching style or teaching philosophy? Is that how you teach? I’ve learned to teach more in that way.

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Helping Educators Reimagine AI’s Role in Transformational Learning

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How can we ensure that our values lead the work rather than the default values of the technology itself, which may or may not reflect our own? Early in my career as a teacher, I was asked to write my teaching philosophy.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

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It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. It’s designed for students new to the University of Virginia—but not entirely new to higher education. They want to read and write and think. She’s trying to show them her teaching philosophy, she explains. They watch TED Talks.

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Why Schools Should Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids

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Another upside is that when you teach philosophy in schools, you have the opportunity to cultivate norms of good conversations and good deliberations. So you teach people that we're going to take turns — we're gonna listen to each other. Teachers give a lot of bite-size assignments, or assignments that are done on the devices.