Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 30, 2024

As High School students explore post-graduation options, more and more are looking at careers as creators. Boosted by the rise in popularity of generative AI image options like DALL-E, photo editing as a career enjoys a resurgence among those preparing to enter the work force. It is fulfilling and potentially lucrative and relies heavily on individual passion and preparation.

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 30, 2024

Children learn by doing and observing. When it comes to social-emotional learning (SEL), they learn by observing healthy norms and following classroom rules around the treatment of others.

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Career in STEM

JANUARY 30, 2024

5 Reasons Why STEM Jobs are Good Jobs With all this talk about STEM – science, technology, engineering, and math – you might be wondering what is so great about STEM jobs. There is tremendous opportunity in STEM, and here are five statistics to prove it! Between 2023 and 2033, the number of STEM jobs will grow 11 percent, compared to 5 percent for non-STEM jobs—with positions in computing, engineering, and advanced manufacturing leading the way.

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Middle Web

JANUARY 30, 2024

To make sure social studies content reading is accessible to all of her students, no matter their level of reading when they arrive, Megan Kelly has added strategies to her literacy toolbox to create entry points for everyone. See the six activities she’s developed so far. The post Making Social Studies Texts Accessible to All first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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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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Kid Spark Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

The current state of education is a regular topic of news and conversation across the nation. In 2024, the subjects of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) will continue to be foundational to the latest developments in education and essential to many of the most in-demand career pathways.

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Basic-Mathematics

JANUARY 30, 2024

Find here a comprehensive list of all the different types of lines in math.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2024

Teachers may spend their days confidently addressing a room full of squirming or distracted students. But when it comes to having a chat with parents, these same teachers may get so nervous they avoid the interactions. “Many teachers that I have talked to don't like to call parents,” says Crystal Frommert, a middle school math teacher at a private school in Houston.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2024

Last month, business leaders and child care advocates from a handful of states convened on Zoom. Representing Michigan, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia, they had come together to discuss a new child care model, called “Tri-Share,” that has gained traction across the country, including in their respective regions. The cost-sharing model, in which the state government, the employer and the employee each pay for one-third of the cost of child care, first launched in 2021 in Michigan , where i

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