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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. What is the goal of transferring and applying learning?

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Explicit instruction: Students need more of it

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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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Systemic Change Means Rethinking College and Career Prep. We’ve Done It Before.

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The only way to achieve another revolution in innovation is through complete transformation of our system As we write this, humanity is in the midst of multiple emergencies. Unfortunately, due to our looming crises, the conditions in which all our systems, including education, exist have changed. The crises that loom over the U.S.

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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Then the state hands off to a vendor who writes a test. The vendor tries to write items that are responses to those standards. So they write a bunch of tests items or questions of different kinds. This is a big problem in the field of education. These are statements about what we want to find out about our students.

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Faculty Mentoring: People, Place, and Purpose 

Faculty Focus

Praxis : Apply new knowledge and skills. Ask effective questions and write appropriate, open-ended, nonjudgmental questions of lessons; that’s praxis. Her primary responsibilities are teaching & advising in the Health & Physical Education K12 program and the departmental Mentor director. Educational Leadership.p.18-22.

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Free Lesson Plans from Study.com

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Lesson plans are sorted by subject including Art, ELA, ESL, Guided Reading, Health and Physical Education, Math, Music, Science, and Social Studies. You will also have the opportunity to apply new knowledge by building a bridge. They can also be searched by particular content. Click for Study.com Free Lesson Plans.

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

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It isn’t particularly good reasoning but it is the sort of reasoning that has come about due to ICT skills in many cases being defined by their output, such as writing a report or creating a slideshow, rather than the underpinning skills such as typing or point-and-click being articulated.