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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

As a writing teacher, I’ve discovered that counseling writers to sequence details logically does more for their writing, their readers, and their intellectual development than encouraging them to take risks or to make art. Not just in story writing but in all writing and most thinking. Magna Publications.

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The Fight to Preserve—and Teach—African-American History

Edsurge

Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. He got the world to see that this was a history worthy of research and there are so many PhDs, masters, so many people, so many books written about our history and so many books yet to write. Listen to the story on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

History 137
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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

As a writing teacher, I’ve discovered that counseling writers to sequence details logically does more for their writing, their readers, and their intellectual development than encouraging them to take risks or to make art. Not just in story writing but in all writing and most thinking. Magna Publications.

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How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

Cult of Pedagogy

” Rather than engaging in a ‘read aloud,’ we engage in “thinking together about a book (or science, math, etc.).” A read aloud is something a teacher does while students listen. Phrases that Cultivate a Democratic Learning Community “Let’s do some thinking together about this book.”

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Beyond Digital Literacy: How EdTech Fosters Children’s Social-Emotional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

A child’s emotional well-being and self-confidence is essential to social and intellectual development. Employers and investors have a strong interest in funding programs that embed SEL into games, learning systems and apps that have a central focus on academic content, such as math or writing, rather than SEL alone.

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With an Unusual Model and ‘Forbidden Courses,’ a New University Is Taking Shape in Texas

Edsurge

Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. And then in the actual selection process, we had them write a series of essays and we had them talk about not only their interests in the program, but the experiences in their lives that prompted them to want to engage in this kind of program.

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