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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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Explicit instruction: Students need more of it

eSchool News

What students–especially struggling students–also need is teacher-directed explicit instruction. But if you are not effectively teaching the students who struggle most, you are perpetuating educational inequity. Explicit instruction, done well, is not a return to traditional teacher lectures.

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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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When It Comes to Picking Edtech, Are Schools Listening to Teachers?

Edsurge

But where in the conversation are the people implementing those tools: the teachers? In a survey released earlier this year, the edtech company Clever found that 85 percent of administrators say teachers are involved in choosing tools. And how much say do they—or should they—have in edtech decisions? So what explains the disconnect?

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The Power of Connect, Extend, Challenge

Catlin Tucker

Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles. This thinking routine strengthens the links between prior knowledge and new learning, paving the way for deeper learning.

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Using ChatGPT to Revolutionize PE Teaching: 5 Expert Strategies!

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Chat GPT is popular among teachers for lots of reasons. For example: to explain concepts, demonstrate ideas, answer specific questions, and assess knowledge. AI is used in education to improve learning in multiple areas, including science, math, and languages. It is also having an impact on physical education and health.

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Moving from industrial education to deeper learning

eSchool News

Key points: Deeper learning helps immerse students in a more engaging education model Redesigning the educational model after COVID Educational leaders must leverage collaboration for success For more news on district leadership, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Today’s students need to develop a broad and well-rounded body of knowledge.

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