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Lessons Learned My First 5 Years Of Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

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.

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Best Back to School Websites and Tools for Teachers

Educators Technology

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

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Lessons Learned During My First Year as a Community College President

ED Surge

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.

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Bringing Schoolwide Equity to Multilinguals

Middle Web

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.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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.

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The Political Right Is Slamming the Door on College Access

ED Surge

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.

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Leveraging Wonder

STEM Next

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.

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3 Reasons Why Performance Tasks are the Best Back-to-School Activities

Defined Learning

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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Monthly Newsletter – August 2022

STEM Education Works

A day nobody wants for themselves, yesterday, August 24th, was National Pluto Demoted Day. No, not that Pluto. The used-to-be planet was reclassified in 2006 as a dwarf planet, and a lot has been learned about Pluto since its discovery in 1930. We have a big list of activities, books, and more about this *relatively* small chunk of rock and ice. . Our Latest Blog Posts.

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Adding Maker Spaces

Get Caught Engineering

Exploring, investigating, and creating – all elements of a maker space. Creating a Maker Space. Ready to add a maker space to your classroom ? Are you still pondering exactly what a “maker” is and what happens in this “space”? Not quite sure how to organize it? We love maker spaces and feel that it is one of the easiest ways to add STEM to your classroom.

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

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.

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Spotlight: Bye, Bye Bug

EiE Blog

Have you explored our new EiE Families site ? Designed to support at-home and on-the-go STEM learning for families with kids ages 4 - 11, our new site extends learning beyond the classroom with fun design challenges, games, and more!

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Finding the Greatest Common Factor of an Expression

Basic-Mathematics

Finding the greatest common factor of an expression is what this lesson will teach you.

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Aug 24, Area of composite figures 7th grade

Online Math for All

Area of composite figures 7th grade - Composite - Solved Examples

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Fractions Worksheets - Adding, Simplifying, Mixed Numbers, and Others

Basic-Mathematics

Find here a variety of good fractions worksheets readily available to print for free.

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Downloadable Design Briefs for an Integrative STEM Curriculum

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!

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Aug 24, Identifying Functions From Tables

Online Math for All

Identifying Functions From Tables - Concept - Solved Examples

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What Is the True Cost of a 1:1 Device Program? One State’s Careful Rollout Offers a Look

ED Surge

As summer vacation winds down, thousands of devices—including Chromebooks, iPads, and laptops—are in the care of school district IT departments. There, the devices have had updates installed, missing keys replaced, cracked screens repaired and decorative stickers removed. Soon, if not already, those updated and repaired computing devices will be returned to students for the new academic year.

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Aug 24, Area of Composite Figures Worksheet 7th Grade Answers

Online Math for All

Area of Composite Figures Worksheet 7th Grade Answers

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Classroom Management and Content Reinforcement!

Amy Brown Science

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.

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Aug 24, Identifying Functions Worksheet with Answers

Online Math for All

Identifying Functions Worksheet with Answers

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Aug 25, Vertical Line Test for Functions Worksheet

Online Math for All

Vertical Line Test for Functions Worksheet

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Aug 24, Exploring Areas of Composite Figures

Online Math for All

Exploring Areas of Composite Figures

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Aug 24, Area of Composite Figures Worksheet

Online Math for All

Area of Composite Figures Worksheet

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Aug 24, Identifying Functions Worksheet

Online Math for All

Identifying Functions Worksheet

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Aug 25, Vertical Line Test for Functions

Online Math for All

Vertical Line Test for Functions - Concept - Examples with step by step explanation

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Aug 24, Area of Composite Figures

Online Math for All

Area of Composite Figures - Concept - Examples

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Aug 24, Use Models to Find Areas of Composite Shapes

Online Math for All

Use Models to Find Areas of Composite Shapes

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