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Solving our literacy crisis starts in the lecture hall

eSchool News

There are decades of research involving thousands of students and educators to support a structured literacy approach to teaching literacy. Despite this groundswell, too many educators are still entering classrooms without the skills and knowledge they need to teach reading. And how do we fix it?

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

k12 Digest

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.

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Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?

Edsurge

Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. What’s the Use of Lectures? Let’s start with one of education’s most hallowed traditions: the lecture.

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Troubleshooting the Flipped Classroom: Dealing with Unprepared Students

Catlin Tucker

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework.

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UDL and Blended Learning: Removing Barriers with Design

Catlin Tucker

In much the same way, teachers must get to know their students. Below are three aspects of our design work that I encourage teachers to consider as they architect learning experiences for their students. #1 1 Get To Know Your Students. How will you get to know your individual students at the beginning of the school year?

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Turning classroom boredom into student brilliance

eSchool News

On the 10th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on student engagement. Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories.

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

k12 Digest

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.

Science 130