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How to Be an Antiracist Educator: An Interview With Ibram X. Kendi

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Many people have talked about pedagogy that’s culturally relevant, and acknowledging we live in a multicultural country, and ensuring that different forms of pedagogy, different cultures and different histories and different forms of literature are exposed to all students. Does the book reflect your own teaching style or teaching philosophy?

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Thinking Outside the Music Box: Using Digital Tools to Teach Music and More

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During my 20 years as a music teacher and band director at Far Hills Country Day School, a Pre-K through 8 independent school in Far Hills, New Jersey, I have had wonderful success integrating music across multiple curriculums, including history, math, science, writing, PE, art and world languages.

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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

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For instance, students might apply principles of narrative analysis to make sense of a patients medical history in a clinical setting, or students might conduct a historical analysis on a textual document in an attempt to date it for a manuscript library. The ROI of a History Degree. References Association of Experiential Education.

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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

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For instance, students might apply principles of narrative analysis to make sense of a patients medical history in a clinical setting, or students might conduct a historical analysis on a textual document in an attempt to date it for a manuscript library. The ROI of a History Degree. References Association of Experiential Education.

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Developing Your Approach to Generative AI

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ChatGPT is the fastest growing app in the history of web applications. link] history-of-web-applications/ Ibrahim, H., Introduction Generative AI in higher education has been widely discussed following the record-breaking uptake of ChatGPT in November 2022 (Dwivedi et al., 2023; Gordon, 2023). link] Gordon, C. 2023, February 2).

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From the Marine Corps to the Classroom

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This year, she’s teaching U.S. history at a high school in East Palo Alto while she wraps up her coursework. I mean, it's good to go over teaching philosophies and models, but I wish it was a little more hands on. Last year, Talley Ochoa taught as a long-term sub in a public school in San Jose, California.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

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She’s trying to show them her teaching philosophy, she explains. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history. Todd has focused his own research on art history. It’s something that’s a little bit hidden from us unless we’ve gone to college,” he says.

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