Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Not only was I unprepared for the levels of math and study skills required, but as a bleeding-heart, 17-year-old, I wanted to do something to help my community. These attributes make them ideal candidates to thrive in science, but the curriculum requires a level of math and reading that makes the science itself hard to grasp.

Science 171

Science Math Students English 171

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Ithaka S+R , and a group called Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics , or TPSE Math. The company’s introductory statistics courseware, which professors involved in the project made some customizations to, is in many ways an interactive textbook. The mission? Lately he’s also been studying techniques of.

Textbooks 129

Textbooks Lecturing Beliefs Assignments 129

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This decade has not been kind to traditional textbook publishers, as many have struggled to transition their business from print to digital. Our core curriculum for reading and literature, and our core curriculum for math. Bankruptcy. Leadership changes. That’s how its CEO Jack Lynch described the recent years for his company.

Textbooks 88

Textbooks Fairness Curriculum Questions 88

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.” In all fairness, it was pretty sweet. Chrome Music Lab is a visual way to plot musical notes and create songs, punctuated with simple percussion, said technology director Bill Selak. It’s also a great way to teach AB patterns.

Essay 167

Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences. High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. Science [standards] followed that idea.

Social Studies 182

Social Studies Study Learning Laboratory 182

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

You might explore equity issues, like whether it’s fair that wealthy countries that created the problem by putting carbon in the atmosphere in the past are now asking less developed countries, which haven’t contributed as much, to stop what they’re doing. You don’t see as much of an emphasis on formulas in Singapore math textbooks.

Fairness 154

Fairness Textbooks Math Reading 154

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Theodora: I was looking for the next step in using CGI (Cognitively Guided Instruction for Math) with technology. I feel strongly that in order to truly understand what they are doing in math they need to be able to verbalize how they solve things. Describe how you used the product. Describe how you used the product.

Social Studies 126

Social Studies Teachers STEM Math 126

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes. Luttrell, R., & McGrath, K. Richard, S.

Assignments 111

Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

To be fair, kids who use technology regularly at home do have both a baseline set of skills and a fearless enthusiasm for anything with a screen and a power button. Math is like that. Only math teachers like formulas and scripts. Students will continue to love tech, just in a more informed way. You’re a geek; I’m not.

Teaching 154

Teaching Internet Knowledge Testing 154

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

So in 1998, he and seven colleagues launched an animated e-learning platform designed to engage elementary and middle school students in math, reading and Spanish curriculum while supporting teachers with assessment tools. Our country has a lot of struggling students and they need a different tool than the textbook.

Testing 132

Testing History Curriculum Fairness 132

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes. Luttrell, R., & McGrath, K. Richard, S.

Assignments 92

Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 92

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Iowa’s 25th place math ranking shows we have work to do. Belie-Blank – Spencer CSD is doing math-science extracurricular with 6-8 graders. As a parent of an elementary student, my son has had no science this year – his principal says it’s because of the increased emphasis on reading and math [UGH!].

STEM 94

STEM Interdisciplinary Quizzes Math 94

k12

MARCH 23, 2025

Research shows that by middle school, many girls can begin to lose confidence in math and science , even when they perform just as well as boys. STEM Curriculum at K12 K12s STEM curriculum is designed to spark curiosity and keep students engaged through real-world applications of science, technology, engineering, and math.

STEM 52

STEM Math Science Knowledge 52

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Yet, of 112 those tests, only 16 or 17 were large-scale, federally-mandated but state-specific standardized tests (Math and ELA, once a year in grades 3-8 and once in high school, plus possibly a science assessment.) Yet, at key moments, we need the disparate pieces of our system to fit together; that’s what standardized testing facilitates.

Testing 106

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Languages Language 106

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Can I make 25 copies from my favorite math workbook? Knowing when our decision to use something falls under fair use and when it is a copyright violation can get tricky, but it doesn’t have to. Knowing when our decision to use something falls under fair use and when it is a copyright violation can get tricky, but it doesn’t have to.

Fairness 168

Fairness Teachers Textbooks Discussions 168

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Textbooks sugar coat realities a bit. girls, poor kids, students of color can’t do math & science). But for minority children in concentrated neighborhoods of poverty, it goes to new levels. . We see hyper-segregation of Black and Hispanic children in every city, large or small. The media does this too. Microplurality.

Education 91

Education Exams Testing Fairness 91

Robert Kaplinsky

AUGUST 9, 2022

I have been a math educator for about twenty years and Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl has more potential to improve the way we teach mathematics than any other book I have ever read. This book is an absolute game changer for all math educators and everyone needs to read it.

Reading 52

Reading Math Questions Writing 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

Anyway, I was teaching it in this very dry way, out of this textbook, and looking at a class of 9th graders who could care less what I was saying. One of the things we looked at in our higher ed community there, where students were just really struggling with the cost of textbooks. We'd just be crazy not to learn from that.

Textbooks 136

Textbooks Fairness Testing Motivation 136

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

I had an idea that we could start working with the educators and with the textbook publishers. If we could integrate calculator-based activities into the curriculum, then it would improve the math. But, the software company was not as into, what I would call, Maslow's hierarchy. In this space [SLEDs], you can't go after revenue.

Education 121

Education Local Government Study Motivation 121