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How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum

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It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.” Provenzano is also the 2013 winner of ISTE’s Outstanding Teacher Award.

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How to help ESL students improve writing skills

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Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. Think of SAT requiring essay writing or IELTS and TOEFL measuring writing abilities.

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Five Tips for Helping Post-Secondary Students Overcome Failure

Faculty Focus

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. link] The post Five Tips for Helping Post-Secondary Students Overcome Failure appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Five Tips for Helping Post-Secondary Students Overcome Failure

Faculty Focus

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. link] The post Five Tips for Helping Post-Secondary Students Overcome Failure appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Everyone Has Invisible Bias. This Lesson Shows Students How to Recognize It.

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Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S.

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The Risks and Rewards of Getting Rid of Grade Levels

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Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-based model. Course scheduling, for example, becomes more complicated with school-wide, mixed-grade language classes. On that front, we were lucky to have the school’s back.

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Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning

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It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer.