eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Conventional schooling often leaves students disillusioned, questioning their intelligence and value as it is framed by a system that needs an overhaul. Its learners receive all of their core academic content–English, history, social studies, and math–through mastery-based online courses.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

For example, one of our PBLWorks project-based learning experiences involves having students answer the driving question How do we inspire people to move to this region? This online program has given us the system, support, and resources to make a measurable difference in our students’ reading growth.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

By design, CTE programs consider questions that are relevant to this gap. I think about these questions each day as I prepare my students to pursue a career in education, and over the years, I’ve found that incorporating CTE skills into teaching helps students have a deeper learning experience.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Inspired by past educators, Aida Hadzovic has built a reputation for innovative teaching strategies for English. Hadzovic earned a degree in English education and later pursued a science degree in part because of the demand for science teachers in Brooklyn, New York. Like many teachers, I wasn’t sure about using AI in my teaching.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Units are designed to continually spark curiosity, prompt questions, and offer students opportunities to engage in engineering practices to make sense of the science around them. Active investigation of phenomena which prompts students to ask questions, build models, and develop explanations to generate evidence of sensemaking.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

That was the provocative question posed by Conrad Wolfram in a blog post earlier this summer. And then a bit later we have questions like, “Are Girls Better at Math?” As you see, these thing are quite fuzzy, they’re not like traditional math questions. Are a lot of the problems that you present interdisciplinary by nature?

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

The sets model conceptualization, a skill that includes distinguishing between primary and secondary sources and using primary sources to generate and refine research questions. These collections of resources provide instructors ready-made materials for discussion or a reference point for students to use in expanding their research questions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

That is the most common question I hear all the time,” says Herrera, who is a speech and debate coach and co-teaches AP Seminar at Henry Grady High School. The complexities of the Diaspora are an excellent fit with AP Seminar’s interdisciplinary research focus. Why am I just learning about this?’

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

In 2008, Heidi Williams, author of the book “No Fear Coding,” began asking herself some retrospective questions about her role as a teacher at an International Baccalaureate School in Racine, Wisc. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the word “teach” comes from the Middle English word techen , meaning “to show or instruct.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students. Students then explore these questions through interactive videos featuring real-world visuals fostering a sense of wonder and actively supporting student engagement in the accompanying discussion prompts. Doodle Math. STEM Connect.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Ask a Question Two Rivers was founded on the principle that we need to embrace a broader definition of student success than what has been handed to us by state and national policy. Problem Solving: The ability to identify the key questions in a problem, develop possible paths to a solution, and follow through with a solution.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The question that often eludes us is: How? As an English major, there is maybe no reason that I should retain information on the taxonomy of living things or plate tectonics. At my university, for example, we have a thriving “sandbox-style” working group comprised of interdisciplinary educators.

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Lecturing Interdisciplinary Cognitive Development English 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The question that often eludes us is: How? As an English major, there is maybe no reason that I should retain information on the taxonomy of living things or plate tectonics. At my university, for example, we have a thriving “sandbox-style” working group comprised of interdisciplinary educators.

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Lecturing Interdisciplinary Cognitive Development English 109

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. Holzweiss said she avoids outdated book report questions and formats. These lessons should target all school leaders and teachers, especially special education teachers and teachers of English language learners.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Through the use of humor, storytelling, or stimulating questions, instructors can create a space where students build up confidence and are equal and active participants in the learning process. Allowing students to share epiphanies they had encourages them to share and can sometimes lead to interdisciplinary connectivity. and Bush, M.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

Choose an interdisciplinary topic for broader appeal Freshmen often have not yet decided what their major would be, nor should they! Our class, “Banned Books and School Policy,” related to education, of course, but also touched on sociology, political science, history, English literature, religion, and public policy. What can we do?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Through the use of humor, storytelling, or stimulating questions, instructors can create a space where students build up confidence and are equal and active participants in the learning process. Allowing students to share epiphanies they had encourages them to share and can sometimes lead to interdisciplinary connectivity. and Bush, M.

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Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 97

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Learned enough English to transition into regular classes in 8th grade, finished all high school coursework by 11th grade, now taking 5 AP classes as a senior. Can we graduate preservice teachers that come out of the gate with interdisciplinary STEM competencies? Breakout group questions. Design a lunar space station.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

I’ve always been a fan of this strategy, but during that session, someone asked a question that I couldn’t answer: How do we grade these fairly? That question sent me down a rabbit hole. And despite not getting that original question answered, the search did lead me to something called competency-based learning.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 7, 2025

Well-crafted journal prompts for high schoolers accomplish all of these goals and they arent just for English class! Journal Writing Prompts Bell Ringers for a Full Year Editable Distance Learning By Tracee Orman Grades: 5th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts, Writing Standards: CCSS RI.5.1, 3a, 3d, 3e; W.9-10.10, 9-10.10, W.11-12.3,

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

Near the top of that list is reading instruction, the question of how we should be teaching young children to read. Some quick background on me: My experience is in English language arts for grades 6 through 12. Even from within, the “sides” often talk about one another in polarizing language.

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Reading Languages Language Science 52

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

And his work draws from his experiences in school, weaving across the realms of interdisciplinary thinking, social-emotional learning, self care, and the steady search for creativity on a human scale. I had a good art teacher and a good English teacher, and those two things, English and art, are part of my journey.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

No longer is travel or student visa status a barrier, English as a second language a challenge, nor the “right” appearance, class or race a deterrent to participation. Instead of the static talk-down with “any questions?” This is the time to put “interdisciplinary” ideas into practice by experimenting with new methodologies.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

No longer is travel or student visa status a barrier, English as a second language a challenge, nor the “right” appearance, class or race a deterrent to participation. Instead of the static talk-down with “any questions?” This is the time to put “interdisciplinary” ideas into practice by experimenting with new methodologies.

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Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 202

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. For many educators, this disruption raises questions about the role of writing in their disciplines. What gives us reason for hope comes down to how we define writing.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. For many educators, this disruption raises questions about the role of writing in their disciplines. What gives us reason for hope comes down to how we define writing.

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Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

residents reflected on questions like What do you want to see out of school? And they wanted to change what felt to them like segregation taking root in their school building, creating tension between the two-thirds of students who are Black and the fifth of students who are English language learners, most of whom are Hispanic.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

About 125 students and a faculty team that teaches core classes, such as English, math, science and social ­studies, are assigned exclusively to each neighborhood. “It It becomes a school within a school,” Cryer says.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But the effort has has also drawn protests by some students and professors, who are questioning how well ethics will be integrated into the effort and are criticizing the influence of a controversial donor. I think students will soon all learn English, Spanish and Python.” Two big ideas drive MIT’s new college.

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