User Generated Education
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
Each week a master math teacher from Math Amigos comes to my GT classroom for an hour to present conceptual math problems. High ability math students from 4th through 6th grades attend. A few weeks ago he presented a problem that included chess knight moves. One of the students mentioned how much she loves to play chess. I asked her if she’d like to lead a chess class.
Middle Web
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
A culturally sustaining and relevant pedagogy for multilingual students assures grade-level academic progress, strengthens first-language usage and sustains cultural connections. Dual language programs are the best path forward, writes language specialist Tan Huynh. The post Transform Learning with Dual Language Programs first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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Newton STEM
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
On Saturday, November 12, 80 students — from Oak Hill, Brown, F.A. Day, Bigelow, Bowen, Zervas, Memorial-Spaulding, and some private schools — gathered at Newton South HS for M Snake , a new, friendly mathematics competition created and run by NSHS students. For most participants, this was their first experience with math competitions, and there was a lot of excitement.
STEM Education Guide
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
Have you ever had an experience where you get super excited about adding a new toy to your child’s play shelf? Then the excitement comes tumbling down when it ends up sitting on the shelf, because your child’s uninterested. We’ve been there. It is hard to know what will really catch their interest and provide hours of play on end. Not only hours of play, but beneficial play.
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.
STEM Education Guide
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
Is your child gifted? You love all of your children equally, and you may feel that labeling one of them as ‘gifted’ will put an unfair focus on that child. Or, perhaps, you feel that telling your child they are gifted may inflate their ego. Despite these misgivings, identifying your child as gifted is an important step for their social, emotional, and intellectual growth.
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