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May 1, 2020
Social-Emotional Learning Activities
Research shows a link between emotional well-being and nature. To support this connection, educators can have students go outside and spend time in nature. Educators can suggest that students take a walk, look for plants or animals, watch the clouds, or take pictures. Middle and high school teachers can also link to their subject area
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Feb 20, 2020
Interactive Notebooks for Social Science Classes
I needed to reduce the amount of paper, or more directly, I needed to reduce the amount of materials that they could lose. I’d seen the Landmark High School math department create live reference sheets called flappers where students added formulas and concepts to index cards taped to a sheet of paper as they learned
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Jan 24, 2020
Helping Students Avoid the “I Don’t Know” Trap
Brainstorm The first step is to address the elephant in the room. I tell my class what I have been hearing and announce that “I don’t know” will cease to exist. Other comments of concern, such as “I’m so confused” or “I don’t get this,” are also worthy of discussion. I explain that these phrases
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Dec 19, 2019
What is Dyscalculia?
The ability to acquire arithmetic skills without being explicitly taught to do so is based on an innate capacity to make meaning from numeracy information in our experiences. For example, counting, adding, comparing, and understanding quantities develop naturally without formal schooling, but exposure in home settings (Shalev, 2001). It is also understood that we have
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Dec 12, 2019
Strategies for Teaching Question Types
Throughout their day, students are asked to read, listen, ask questions, follow directions, and answer questions. The questions presented to them come in many forms: matching, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short answer, or essay. These questions can be part of a formative or summative assessment or standardized testing. Teachers ask questions to check students’ understanding of
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Nov 11, 2019
The Trifecta: Executive Function, Anxiety, and Self-Regulation
Executive function (EF) is the set of mental processes that enables a person to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and follow multiple steps or tasks in order to reach a goal.1 Many think of executive functioning as the “CEO” of our brain.2 Some even use an image of a sticky note; people with strong EF
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Oct 21, 2019
My Favorite Teachers: A Reflection for Dyslexia Awareness Month
by Keryn Kwedor
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Sep 23, 2019
Prerequisite Comprehension Skills
Students who have strong reading comprehension skills are often able to: Make connections to previously learned material Generate questions Create mental images Make inferences Determine importance Synthesize information Automatically apply fix-it-up strategies Students with a specific learning disability (SLD), such as dyslexia, may struggle with comprehending what they read because of weaknesses with the phonological
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Sep 23, 2019
Mathematical Mindsets
Jo Boaler, a British education author and a professor of mathematics education at Stanford Graduate School of Education, has completed extensive research on how we learn math from early infancy through adulthood. By studying parts of our brain where math facts are held and manipulated, she concludes that many of the methodologies currently used to
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