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3 things you didn’t know your classroom management software could do

eSchool News

Language learning We’ve all had the experience of hearing a recording of our own voice and feeling a little surprised, even disconcerted perhaps. Help students who are learning a language overcome this and make the perspective shift. Likewise, congratulate them for progress and good efforts with virtual badges.

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Outdoor classrooms should outlast COVID

eSchool News

We chanted and danced “Pie-pie-pie” (a Spanish-language twist on “head, shoulders, knees, and toes”) in a giant circle. This gave way to more movement, flexible group work, and games. My students were super engaged in learning. Our paved heat island was better than indoors but still too hot.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

Scholarly Teacher

Specifically, the implementation of in-class clickers and out-of-class quizzing within the context of think-pair-share (TPS) will be the fulcrum of this article’s approach to integrating active learning within a lecture framework. Depending on the classroom setup, group work can also be chaotic and auditorily overwhelming.

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Why This Chicago Tutoring Center Wants to Be the ‘Whole Foods’ of Education

Edsurge

“We’re speaking to them in a language they understand,” Gibori says of students, “where even even if you’re ten feet from a tutor, they’d rather interact over their phone.”

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At CETPA, District Leaders Rethink the Classroom, From Furniture to Funding

Edsurge

Their research showed teacher stress levels lower, discipline problems decrease and language arts scores increase when teachers aren’t shouting across the room. Instead of the rank-and-file spaces they had before, new rooms became modular with technology carts and bookshelves on wheels.

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School STEM Labs Inspire Students, Power Innovation

EdTech Magazine

Thomas School near Seattle hopes to encourage students to develop a passion for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by starting them young and engaging them with cool, new learning spaces featuring robots and 3D virtual reality computers. Older students work with more sophisticated robots.

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