ED Surge
AUGUST 26, 2022
Educator Stacey Roshan believes that when schools prioritize students who are most vocal and quickest to raise their hand, the perspectives of too many are lost. That's why she uses edtech tools in the classroom to provide a safe space where she can encourage all types of learners to contribute. When Roshan was in high school, she feared the moment she might be called on in class.
Kid Spark Education
AUGUST 26, 2022
At Kid Spark Education, in our work providing STEM education early and consistently, we’re well aware that there are a variety of ways to bolster a love of STEM learning in the classroom. For elementary school students in particular, there are so many books that teach about science, technology, engineering, and math. From covering famous figures to opening up students' minds to STEM concepts, to serving as a good launching pad for in class activities— even storytime can be a STEM learning experi
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Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 25, 2022
How to incorporate podcasting into your curriculum this school year. School is almost back in session and educators are busy working on curriculum for the upcoming school year that will challenge students, improve their communication skills and provide a platform to express their thoughts and interests. If you haven’t created a podcasting unit before, there are plenty of platforms that will help you get started with low or no start-up costs.
Educators Technology
AUGUST 24, 2022
The purpose of this post is to share with you this helpful collection of back to school resources to use with your students in class. I tried to cover as much ground as possible and offer you the best educational technology tools to help you optimize your teaching and enhance students learning throughout the whole new school year. I arranged these tools into different categories including tools to create class website, tools to manage students noise, teacher-parent communication tools, formative
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
Middle Web
AUGUST 24, 2022
Here are MiddleWeb’s 11 most popular articles about asking quality questions in class, scaffolding student discussions, and gathering formative feedback from kids through dialogue. Learn from Jackie Walsh, Valentina Gonzalez, Barbara Blackburn, Curtis Chandler and more! The post Questioning, Discussion and Student Feedback first appeared on MiddleWeb.
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 24, 2022
It’s always interesting to find out what new teachers learned in their early teaching that affected their later years. Here’s Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Elaine Vanessa’s, take on that–5 bits of wisdom she acquired while surviving the early teaching years: My first five years of teaching were the shortest and longest years of my life.
Educators Technology
AUGUST 25, 2022
The purpose of this post is to share with you some good resources where you can search for and access a wide range of pre-made Google Slides and PowerPoint templates. I have already reviewed each of these resources in separate posts in the past. Simply click on each title to access its corresponding review. Using these resources will be enable you to create professional looking presentations without the need for prior graphic design knowledge.
Cool Cat Teacher
AUGUST 23, 2022
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Do you have students at many grade levels in your classroom? Do you find it hard to differentiate? Do you spend lots of time looking for fun, engaging activities to teach your students? eSpark is a free no-prep solution that teachers of math and reading at the elementary level need to try. eSpark is simple and easy to use.
ED Surge
AUGUST 23, 2022
When John first came to me in fall 2020, he was a ninth grader and we were in the thick of the pandemic, doing emergency remote learning. It was tough to gauge John’s abilities and potential because he didn’t say a word and kept his camera off during every Zoom lesson. After a couple of weeks, he emerged as one of the few students to show up every single day and attempt to complete his work.
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Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.
Ask a Tech Teacher
AUGUST 22, 2022
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Which Digital Device Should I Use?
Educators Technology
AUGUST 26, 2022
Technology occupies a huge part of our life and we are more dependent on its services than in any time in the past. And while it has tremendously facilitated our life in several sectors from education to business, our dependence on it comes with a price. Data loss is one of the major issues that jeopardizes our technology use. Reasons for data loss are numerous including sudden power outage, virus attack, accidental deletion, badly formatted or corrupt hard drive, among others.
Amy Brown Science
AUGUST 24, 2022
Warm ups and bell ringers are definitely a "vintage" idea, but used in the right way they become an excellent classroom management tool! The bell has just rung for your next class. At your classroom door is a jumbled mass of students, some leaving the room, some entering the room. Some of the ones leaving have stopped at your desk to chat or ask questions.
ED Surge
AUGUST 22, 2022
A new school year is upon us, and teachers across the country are returning to their classrooms recharged, bursting with ideas and brimming with optimism. What’s at the top of their to-do lists? According to the data , it’s data-driven instruction. Let’s take a closer look at what keeps data-driven instruction from working in the real world. Nearly 90 percent of teachers think data is critical for effective classroom instruction.
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These easy-to-use design briefs outline student objectives, challenges, and materials needed to complete each 30-minute to 4-hour lesson. ITEEA’s Integrative STEM curriculum, Engineering byDesign, includes many more standards driven hands-on activities just like these!
Carly and Adam
AUGUST 20, 2022
The best beginning of the year STEM challenges have 3 things in common: 1.) They help students get to know one another and start building teamwork and collaboration. 2.) They allow students to start practicing classroom procedures. 3.) They are incredibly fun and get students excited about STEM! Name building and name tag challenges check all of those boxes.
Educators Technology
AUGUST 22, 2022
Kudoboard is a virtual bulletin board ideal for creating and sharing group cards. You can create boards and add posts to them. Posts can include text messages, audio and video messages, images, GIFs, emojis, and many more. You can also invite collaborators to contribute to the board. Once your board is ready you can share it as a hard-bound poster or book or you can play it as a slideshow for the whole class to see.
STEM Next
AUGUST 20, 2022
Welcome Back to Afterschool 2022. Five Big Ideas to Spark Family Engagement in STEM. coauthored by Linda Kekelis and Ron Ottinger. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) can spark a curiosity in children that can inspire a lasting love of learning. Interest may come from a hands-on science investigation, a role model who codes for good causes, or words of encouragement from a teacher or afterschool instructor.
ED Surge
AUGUST 22, 2022
The disparity between what teachers are paid and what their peers in other, comparable professions earn has reached an all-time high, according to findings published this month by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI). For decades—indeed, almost every year since the EPI first began documenting the teacher pay penalty in 1996—the pay of teachers has slipped further behind that of their non-teacher counterparts, adjusted for education, experience and demographics.
Middle Web
AUGUST 24, 2022
Language specialist Tan Huynh offers a framework called the 3 C’s of Equity – Community, Curriculum and Culture – to guide schools on the journey to provide an equitable learning experience for their multilingual learners. To start, avoid deficit-based models that segregate. The post Bringing Schoolwide Equity to Multilinguals first appeared on MiddleWeb.
STEM Discovery Education
AUGUST 23, 2022
The shift to student-centered instruction is well worth the effort. Student-centered instruction and learning lead to greater rates of achievement and transferrable life skills for success in school and long after. The goal is to move beyond passive learning and help students become actively engaged through increased agency, hands-on and group experiences, and high—but completely realistic—expectations.
Futurum
AUGUST 25, 2022
What can we learn about microbiomes by studying wild mice? Published: Within every one of us, there lives a thriving community of microscopic life, known as our microbiome. Like most other vertebrates, we rely on our microbiomes to help us maintain key biological processes, such as digestion and immunity. Despite their importance, there is still a lot that we do not know about microbiomes and how they impact the health of their hosts.
ED Surge
AUGUST 24, 2022
On the morning of August 2, 2022, I woke up to a flood of emotions as I reflected on my one-year anniversary as president of the Community College of Aurora. During my initial moments of reflection, I vividly recalled receiving my COMPASS and ACCUPLACER scores at my local community college years ago, and hearing for the first time that I tested at developmental levels for math.
STEM Education Works
AUGUST 23, 2022
Hello, everyone! With school starting back up, it’s time for students and teachers alike to return to the classroom. As most of you already know, the last couple of years have been especially hard on our teachers out there. The COVID epidemic has presented them with tremendous challenges and economic stresses are pressing down on teachers more than ever.
STEM Next
AUGUST 24, 2022
Leveraging Wonder. By: Teresa Drew. Photo Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Do you remember what it was like to lay on your back in the sweet grass or a dusty knoll and be transfixed by the wonder of the night sky? I do. Summer nights meant playing outside until the sky grew dark and because I lived in a small mountain community it meant the fun didn’t stop then.
Box Light
AUGUST 25, 2022
For educators, summertime is synonymous with teacher professional development and training in anticipation of the approaching school year. Oftentimes, there are new materials, textbooks, resources, and equipment to learn how to use. Districts try to plan dynamic professional learning experiences for their teachers knowing that it can be overwhelming to digest so much information squeezed into a few days.
ED Surge
AUGUST 24, 2022
The national consensus supporting higher education is unraveling , as backing for college funding is increasingly becoming a partisan issue. And that's having a disproportionate impact on poor and historically underserved students. College enrollment is down nationwide, from about 17 million in 2020 to 15.9 million in the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center--a big historical change.
Futurum
AUGUST 26, 2022
Classroom resources for the new school year. Tweet. Share. 0. Skype. Reddit. +1. Pinterest. 0. LinkedIn. 0. Email. Are you looking for free and engaging educational resources to use in your classroom? Look no further! As students and teachers head back to school, why not use our free educational resources in your lessons? At Futurum, we work with researchers and academics from all disciplines to create classroom resources for schools.
STEM Sport
AUGUST 23, 2022
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects can be difficult to implement in the classroom – especially at the K-2 grade level. Despite the possible challenges when starting to implement STEM in early education, there are many benefits to students who have early exposure to these subjects. Educators, facilitators, and parents should be exposing students to STEM education early on to promote STEM literacy and comfortability in the subjects.
Defined Learning
AUGUST 24, 2022
It’s that time of year again! Teachers and students are back to school with a renewed excitement about the prospects of an exciting, productive year ahead. Before the new learning can begin, time must be taken to establish expectations, evaluate prior knowledge, and review content and concepts.
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