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Educator Insights, Curriculum Development | January 29, 2019
What Does Instructional Leadership Look Like?
How granular should instructional leadership be; how much oversight should you exercise; and how much material do you provide?
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School Leadership | January 29, 2019
What is the Foundation of Effective Professional Development?
Three research-based characteristics of results-oriented professional development for educators include format, continuity, and planning
Teaching Strategies, Educator Insights, Curriculum Development | January 24, 2019
Don’t Assume Silence Equates to Comprehension: Strategies for Embedding Formative Assessment
True formative assessment is messy. It s not a quiz or a mini summative assessment. It is a constantly occurring process, a verb, a series of events in action, not a single tool or a static noun (NCTE Executive Board, 2013)
Teaching Strategies, Educator Insights | January 22, 2019
Student Anxiety, “The Empathy Gap”, & Social and Emotional Learning
As the Empathy Gap widens due to student anxiety, our work to teach social and emotional learning becomes more important than ever
Teaching Strategies, Educator Insights, Curriculum Development | January 22, 2019
(Critically) Reading the News: Empowering Citizens in the Age of Disinformation
Developing news literacy cannot be achieved just by simply reading the news. Learners to need to have specific skills which serve as tools in order to make sense of what they are reading
Teaching Strategies, Educator Insights, Curriculum Development | January 21, 2019
Making Sense of the Acronyms
Curriculum mapping ensures a guaranteed and viable curriculum. It is our promise and our contract to the parents, students, our colleagues and our community of where we are going and what we are doing
Teaching Strategies, Educator Insights, Curriculum Development | January 20, 2019
The "What if?, Why not?” Concept in Curriculum Innovation: An Authentic PBL-Overseas Education Program in the 21st Century
Many studies had proven that field trips, as a unique dimension of learning, provide greater educational impact among students
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Teaching Strategies, Educator Insights, Curriculum Development | January 20, 2019
Instilling Critical Thinking Skills Through Inquiry Based Teaching
Inquiry-based teaching aims to increase student engagement in learning by helping students to develop the hands-on, minds-on skills needed for the 21st century. This approach is conducive for the complex work of learning
Teaching Strategies, Educator Insights, Curriculum Development | January 20, 2019
Whose Brain Is It Anyway? What Students Should Know About their Brain and Learning
What is one of the most powerful tools we can share with students as our partners in the learning process. As one of my high school students said, It really helps when you explain to us how our brain works
Teaching Strategies, Educator Insights, Curriculum Development | January 18, 2019
Stories and STEAM: Open a New World of Learning
Since the Sputnik era in the 1950 s, STEM has been a pertinent topic in educational discussions, and today, STEM continues to be a subject of importance, particularly as children move toward a more technologically based education
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