Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Keywords: Active Learning, Think-Pair-Share, STEM Background Introductory undergraduate STEM classes are notoriously painful experiences, both for the students and for the teacher. Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2017

Current statistics show that scholars of color and females are underrepresented in STEM fields across the country, and so FWPS is actively taking steps to provide STEM and STEAM (STEM with an emphasis on the arts) opportunities for each scholar from kindergarten through high school graduation. Career pathways.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2025

Gizmo is an interactive STEM learning experience for grades 3-12. Once the teacher assigns the STEM activity to a class, students can access it immediately. Using Gizmo in partners or groups has really aided in providing students with a voice, confidence, and an eagerness to learn more.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Over the past several years, these spaces have transformed into collaborative areas that encourage group work, discussions, and hands-on activities, promoting creativity and innovation–ultimately becoming instrumental in shaping well-rounded, adaptable learners.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Key points: All students are math language learners, regardless of their home language Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs How to support multilingual learners in STEM For more news on language learners, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Math isnt just about numbers. Sentence stems (a.k.a. for years to come.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Classrooms may be student-driven, might focus on project-based learning, or may offer learning through a specialized topic such as STEM. Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Classrooms today could be in person, online, or hybrid.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

For example, moving from lecture to small group work is only as effective as the nature of the feedback, the respect between stakeholders, and the understanding students have in how the process helps them grow both intellectually and socially. In my experience, graduate training in STEM tends to lack any discussion of this.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

No One-Size-Fits-All When it comes to research, part of Claffey’s dilemma may stem from the fact that not much has been conducted on the topic at the K-12 level (most has focused on online class sizes in higher education.) If classes are too small, say 5-10 students, classroom discussion and group work may be more difficult.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This includes girls, who were already underrepresented in STEM fields before the pandemic added new caretaking responsibilities for many of them that sidelined their education. And these are not just STEM jobs. And we are so happy to report that it actually worked. This is fashion design, culinary arts, urban city design.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In northern New Mexico, Taos Academy Charter School , where one of us, Elizabeth LeBlanc, serves as the director of teaching and learning, uses a flexible schedule to conduct one-on-one and small group work in the afternoons and to offer on-demand support through Homework Hotlines in the morning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Last summer, not far from the doorsteps of Oakland Unified School District, a group of parents came together to build an academic program from scratch in an effort to close the gap between the education their children were getting in school and the education they deserved.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

And in grades K-5, computer science is an integral part of the STEM program and added when possible to larger project-based learning activities. Collaboration and group work is fundamental. But as students work on more advanced projects, the tasks can quickly get difficult. Here’s where collaboration is key.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In my classroom, we do a lot of partner and group work, so I often need to plan ahead for possible challenges during periods of collaboration. Each time I plan a lesson that has group work, I make a mental (or written) note reminding myself to breathe, step back and not rush to fix every situation.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Logie-Bates: In my role, I work with teachers, so I'm really looking forward to developing these projects and lessons with them. As technology integration specialists in our districts, I work with Stefanie and Priscila, but we essentially work on islands most of the time, even more so now than before.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

That is an inherent problem that we have to work through. If you put it in a place where students are getting up, presenting, using that resource, being able to have a voice in the classroom or having interactive groups working with the displays, then it puts students at the center of the learning. Content Length. Pull Quote.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So here we have in a thinking classroom: The students standing at the whiteboards in their random groups of three, one marker per group, working on these thinking tasks. But it also means that we can't pre-teach them how to do it. And that produced thinking classrooms.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

UNC Charlotte, for example, has the Active Learning Academy, which brings in speakers and offers internal education opportunities as well as a STEM Academy, which models evidenced-based practices in a fun, informative way and even pays participants a small stipend.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

MARCH 13, 2025

Group Wor k: Because students have been doing independent work all morning, I like to provide group work options in the afternoon. STEM challenges, logic puzzles , Topple Blocks , etc. This bundle includes options for literacy, math, and critical thinking skills. The creative A-Z task cards are always a hit!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2019

One of our initiatives was to include STEM activities in our science lessons. After looking around at my students, I realized the main reason they were struggling was that they simply weren’t working together as teams. Most of the time, introverts feel like they get steamrolled during group work.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

Building a Digital Learning Culture In a traditional classroom, culture is built through physical presence: greetings at the door, shared lunchtime, or spontaneous group work. But online schools have to work harder to build this same community. 30-day STEM challenge or History fact chain).

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Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Allow group work during class time to minimize barriers to connecting with classmates. Encourage students to develop text groups with each other to extend community outside the classroom. Regardless of course delivery, CoI challenges educators to consider how we influence and create community.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

The studio integrates lecture, lab, and group work in a flexible learning environment, allowing students to actively participate in problem-solving, discussions, and projects, and it supports diverse learning activities and styles. . “Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape” (2010). Glaser, C.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

The studio integrates lecture, lab, and group work in a flexible learning environment, allowing students to actively participate in problem-solving, discussions, and projects, and it supports diverse learning activities and styles. . “Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape” (2010). Glaser, C.

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