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3 simple strategies to supercharge student growth

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Differentiation must play a key role in their teaching philosophy. Low Floor, High Ceiling: Low-Floor, High-Ceiling activities allow any student to participate and find success, regardless of how much they may struggle. However, teachers are busy people with an ever-growing list of responsibilities.

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Teaching Goal-Writing to All Students

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This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on November 1, 2013. On the first day of classes two years ago, I had students in my professional and technical writing course send me an email with their goals for the semester. They are not actively participating in their own education. © Magna Publications.

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Helping Educators Reimagine AI’s Role in Transformational Learning

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Early in my career as a teacher, I was asked to write my teaching philosophy. While I initially struggled to articulate my beliefs about teaching and learning, one principle remained clear: Students must be at the center of every decision I made in my classroom. Sign up here.

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Thinking Outside the Music Box: Using Digital Tools to Teach Music and More

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During my 20 years as a music teacher and band director at Far Hills Country Day School, a Pre-K through 8 independent school in Far Hills, New Jersey, I have had wonderful success integrating music across multiple curriculums, including history, math, science, writing, PE, art and world languages. But what about the other 80 percent?

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

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It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. They want to read and write and think. They write brief papers and give short oral reports, building skills and stamina they eventually will need to complete and present a capstone research project, their final assignment before they graduate.

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