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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

k12 Digest

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

Edsurge

Solving this motivation problem is tricky. When students establish a career identity, the material they learn that relates to that identity becomes more personally meaningful than just passing a test or earning a graduation credit, Christine Rodriguez told EdSurge in an email interview.

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

k12 Digest

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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"The Choice to Love"

Teacher Toms Blog

He was the principal at Meadowfield Elementary in Columbia, SC, and, it was rumored, he had a wooden paddle in his office with "holes drilled in it" so he could swing it faster. Even as an eight-year-old, I thought the physics of that sounded off, but I sure didn't want to test it. Advocates for punishments value them as "motivation."

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Re-Visiting Ivan Illich: Deschooling Society

Teacher Toms Blog

Learning, in my experience, is primarily a process of self-motivated individuals interacting with their environment and the people they find there. intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Art, music, and stories stood at the center of the school day. Many students.

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Competition Can Motivate, Encourage and Inspire Students. But It Can Also Harm Them.

Edsurge

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called.

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SplashLearn Announces SpringBoard Math Challenge 2022 Winners

eSchool News

SplashLearn would like to congratulate each and every school, teacher, and student who participated in the competition. The competition has motivated students to stay engaged and excited, which has always been our goal with everything we build at SplashLearn.”.

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