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3 Creative Teaching Resources That Save You Time and Money

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are three from the Ask a Tech Teacher team: 3 Creative Teaching Resources That Save You Time and Money Educators are increasingly expected to do more with less – ensuring that the next generation gets the quality of teaching they deserve while keeping budgets in check and making up for shortfalls in classroom resource availability.

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The Impact of Inclusive STEM Education

ED Surge

Educators face the challenge of engaging students in STEM amidst limited resources. STEM education is not just about science and math; it develops skills such as creativity, communication, empathy and critical thinking that complement technologies like generative AI and coding.

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How Building Bonds in the Classroom Can Motivate Better Teaching

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Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. Examples of survey items used by students to evaluate teachers via the Network for Educator Effectiveness. What might educators glean from the findings?

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information. math teaching predominantly focused on procedural skills, where students spent most of their time acquiring isolated skills through repetition.

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What Brain Science Says About How to Better Teach Teenagers

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Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. In the past, Galinsky says, researchers and educators have focused too much on portraying the emotional turmoil and risky decision-making that is typical in adolescence as negative. “The

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The Impact of Game-Based Learning Solutions on Critical Thinking

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Learning and the education sector have seen significant changes over time. High rates of development and improvement have been seen in both teaching and learning when gaming has been included in the classroom. Computer games empower understudies to connect socially while at the same time fostering critical thinking abilities.

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Why Educators Should Lean in to AI to Better Support Students

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Upon the release of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022, we noticed that some of our students had suddenly become “experts” at synthesizing research and organizing their term papers, often resulting in perfect scores on their written assignments.