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Digital learning in a new age

eSchool News

Digital learning also meets the needs of teachers, who, just like knowledge workers around the world, are interested in employment that allows them to choose their schedules. Much like young knowledge workers who are increasingly blending home offices with corporate headquarters, digital learning is showing up in unexpected places as well.

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The Essential Pillars of Effective PE Class

Teach Hub

But physical education is so much more than just burning off energy or giving kids a break from academics. That means providing them with the tools, strategies, and knowledge they need to establish sustainable fitness habits that last. For example, teaching proper form and safety for basic exercises.

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💡🧲 Physics! Meet our Top Physics Tutors & Discover Curriculum for Kids

Teach Your Kids

As the workforce continues to evolve toward technology, energy, and engineering fields, physics provides essential knowledge for future jobs in aerospace, robotics, data science, and clean tech. Even for students who do not pursue STEM careers, physics fosters a flexible, problem-solving mindset that is useful in any field.

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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

How can we create a learning environment where each student feels confident applying the knowledge and skills they’re acquiring? This approach often fails to recognize and accommodate the diverse ways students understand and express their knowledge. This could be a specific skill, concept, or knowledge area.

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Problem-based learning helped boost my underserved students’ engagement

eSchool News

As educators, our charge is to impart knowledge onto our students, open new doors for them, and encourage them to stretch beyond their comfort zones. As a physical education teacher in an underserved community, finding ways to connect with my classes during the pandemic and a time of remote learning was challenging.

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Explicit instruction: Students need more of it

eSchool News

As an assistant principal in a public school in Manhattan, I have begun to use explicit instruction more in my own teaching and have focused on explicit instruction in my professional development with the history and physical education teachers I supervise. But productive struggle does not work for my daughter.

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The Power of Connect, Extend, Challenge

Catlin Tucker

Learners can more effectively assimilate and interrogate new concepts by connecting new information to prior knowledge, extending ideas beyond initial comprehension, and pinpointing areas of challenge or uncertainty. This thinking routine strengthens the links between prior knowledge and new learning, paving the way for deeper learning.