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Desperate to Support Youth, States Spend to Stop Leaks in Mental Health Care Pipeline

ED Surge

Celina Pierrottet remembers 2016 as the year when she and her colleagues at the middle school where they taught noted a pointed change among their students. “We were just like, ‘Is it just me, or are kids really nervous?’” Pierrottet recalls. “That year we had a lot of kids who were displaying some sort of school avoidance and other behaviors that we hadn't quite seen as much.

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Understanding Behavioral Learning Theory & Its Applications In The Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

The Ask a Tech Teacher team has written a great article on behavioral learning in the classroom. You’ll find out: What it is Keys to unpacking it Why it matters in education Examples in the classroom Techniques for applying it Challenges Behavioral Learning Theory & Its Applications In Class If you’re an educator or a parent, equipping yourself with knowledge of behavioral learning theory can transform your classroom dynamics and alter how you perceive the process of learning itself.

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Apply: Year 12 Nuffield Research Placements – North West-Specific Application Information

All About STEM

All About STEM is delighted to be the Nuffield Coordinator for the North West, covering Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. Our role is to recruit and support businesses, academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders to host Y12 students to undertake a Nuffield Research Placement and to work with successful students applicants, and their teachers.

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Does city life negatively affect wildlife?

Futurum

Does city life negatively affect wildlife? Published: If you have ever seen the beautiful sight of hundreds of starlings sweeping through the sky in unison, you will know how at ease these birds look in their environment, even in an urban setting. Starlings seem to have adapted well to cities, but how healthy is this for them? At Kennesaw State University in the US, Dr Sarah Guindre-Parker is an ecologist investigating the effects of urban life on starlings – and the implications for us all.

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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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Teaching YA Novels with Multiple Perspectives

Middle Web

Kasey Short recommends offering middle schoolers YA novels with multiple narrators as a way to enrich opportunities for content instruction and SEL. They're also really engaging and fun for kids to read. Included: sample questions and activities and lots of suggested titles. The post Teaching YA Novels with Multiple Perspectives first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Nov 14, Increasing and Decreasing Functions

Online Math for All

Increasing and Decreasing Functions | Definition and Examples

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How AI Could Bring Big Changes to Education — And How to Avoid Worst-Case Scenarios

ED Surge

It has been a year since the release of ChatGPT, and educators are still scrambling to respond to this new kind of AI tool. Much of the conversation has revolved around the double-edged nature of AI chatbots for educators. On the one hand teachers worry that students will suddenly cheat on homework with abandon, since chatbots can write essays in ways that are difficult to detect.

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Nov 14, Division of Polynomials

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Division of Polynomials - Concept - Examples

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Best STEM Summer Camps In Raleigh 2024

The Maker Mom

STEM camps can be a fun and educational experience to help your children develop their skills and interests. It’s especially important these days when most kids can quickly adapt to the advances of technology, as STEM activities can help them keep up with the quickly advancing changes, especially in things like coding. Raleigh is best known as the location of the Research Triangle Park, which is also home to several startups and prominent tech companies.

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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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Nov 14, Expressing a Power with a Different Base

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Expressing a Power with a Different Base

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Students work at different paces. Let them.

Jacobs Physics

By November, I've generally established a positive, authentic class culture in which everyone is working as a team to learn a difficult subject. This class culture will look different for different teachers, different school ecosystems. Point is, now the class clowns have been brought into the fold or at least neutralized; the folks who'd rather whine or lawyer up than learn have similarly changed their priorities - or left the class.

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Nov 14, Finding Unknown Angle Measures Worksheet

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Finding Unknown Angle Measures Worksheet

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Nov 14, Total Surface Area

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Total Surface Area

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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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Nov 14, Implicit Differentiation

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Implicit Differentiation - Concept - Examples

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