Middle Web
JANUARY 29, 2024
To reduce confusion, math professor Dan Ilaria recommends: Stop saying “cancel” and use “name the operation.” Stop saying “plug in” and use “substitute.” Stop saying “reduce” and use “rewrite.” Stop saying “cross-multiply” and allow students to make sense of what they are solving. The post Stop Using These Four Words in Math Class first appeared on MiddleWeb.
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. Common Core–Math Lesson Plans 141 pages, 20 projects, over 114 Common Core standards, for K-8. 33% off right now through February 3, 2024 How to Achieve Common Core with Tech is a four-volume series that focuses on using technology to meet Common Core standards in Language, Writing, Reading, Speaking/Listening (not yet available), and Math.
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ED Surge
JANUARY 31, 2024
Navigating school spaces is a journey and students’ needs are ever changing. While educators are leaving the field at unprecedented rates , many districts are scrambling to meet the needs of all their students. As a parent, I felt the impact of the departures when I had to guide my then seventh-grader through math without a consistent teacher after a mid-year exit.
All About STEM
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Get the Inside Scoop each month – just join us online for a snappy-session of STEM inspiration! Inside Scoop is an online networking event for STEM teachers, club leaders, technicians and anyone involved in STEM enrichment at schools in the North West region who want to hear about the latest information on resources, funding, programme and local opportunities.
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.
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.
STEM Education Central brings together the best content for STEM education professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. The guest, Allison Russell, was talking about the emotional intelligence of young people and mentioned that she’d just learned that her daughter was part of Generation Alpha , which refers to people born after 2010.
All About STEM
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Amazing Apprenticeships offer monthly information booklets for parents or carers looking to advise teens about career pathways. The latest Parent Pack includes a ten-step apprenticeship plan with practical steps for applications, information about Higher Technical Qualifications, a spotlight on an inspiring degree apprentice at Microsoft and more.
Stem Activities for Kids
JANUARY 31, 2024
Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to explore all things heart-related, and why not do it with science and STEM? This February 14th, try celebrating the day of love by loving on some of our favorite heart-themed experiments and activities? First, Learn About the Circulatory System The circulatory system is made up of the heart, blood vessels, and blood.
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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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.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A few years on from district-wide remote learning spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, Principal Darren A. Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. “When we got into the classroom, the students were shy. They didn't want to work in groups. They had a wall,” Cole-Ochoa says of the students in the small town of Elsa, Texas.
All About STEM
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Liverpool City Region Careers Hub has put together a guide of local/national events and resources for National Apprenticeship Week 2024. National Apprenticeship Week is the biggest week in the Apprenticeships calendar! It is an annual, week-long celebration of apprenticeships and anyone involved with them.
Carly and Adam
JANUARY 29, 2024
Free Valentine’s Day Activity (Creativity Challenge) Teachers, are you looking for a free resource for Valentine’s Day? Spark your students’ creativity this Valentine’s Day with the 6 Hearts Creativity Challenge. These hearts serve as a canvas for students to transform them into various objects, unleashing their imagination. What are creativity challenges?
Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 29, 2024
National Puzzle Day is celebrated on January 29th each year. It’s a day dedicated to enjoying and solving puzzles of all kinds, including jigsaw puzzles, crosswords, Sudoku, and various other brain teasers. Puzzle enthusiasts often use this day to engage in their favorite puzzle-solving activities and share their passion with others. Whether it’s a solo endeavor or a group activity, National Puzzle Day encourages people to exercise their minds and have fun with the challenges that pu
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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!
ED Surge
JANUARY 31, 2024
“Okay! Let’s wrap up our conversations and get back together!” As the small group discussion portion of the PD session I was attending ended, an overwhelming feeling of relief came over me. Had I stayed in the session any longer, I might’ve had to slip out of the meeting room and find a hidden spot to cry; not tears of joy, per se, but frustration — frustration I often feel when squeezed out of conversations.
All About STEM
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
We’re celebrating A DECADE of sponsoring Educate Awards! We are overjoyed to return for our tenth year as an Educate Awards sponsor with our Outstanding Commitment to STEM Award. The awards are open for entries, nominate your STEMsational school and you could be our 2024 winner! Click here to take a look at the categories & enter.
Defined Learning
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Portrait of a Graduate (PoG) competencies — such as communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving — are crucial for student success beyond school. Schools and districts must establish, measure, and assess PoG attributes and one easy way to do that is through Project-Based Learning.
Ask a Tech Teacher
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
There are great reasons to use online videos to learn math: Visual Learning: for many, this makes complex topics easier to understand Flexibility: access content at their own pace Engagement: engaging and interactive Review and Replay: revisit specific sections of a video as many times as needed to reinforce understanding. Supplementary Learning: complement traditional learning Here are ten online resources for teaching math that I think you’ll like (for updates to this list, click here
ED Surge
JANUARY 31, 2024
How do we get insights to the people who need them the most? This statement has guided the Feedback Loops work at Digital Promise over the last two years as we’ve explored ways different communities can collaborate to improve education. Looking forward, this will become even more important as the speed of edtech product life cycles increase, as evidenced by the recent release and adoption of generative AI tools across the landscape.
All About STEM
JANUARY 31, 2024
If you work in STEM or have a background in STEM, you can become a STEM Ambassador and inspire the next generation of STEM professionals. Being a STEM Ambassador is about engaging and enthusing young people with science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Box Light
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
We're going to Texas! Boxlight is excited to be part of TCEA 2024 in Austin. Get ready for an immersive experience as we showcase our award-winning solutions designed to innovate teaching and learning.
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.
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.
All About STEM
JANUARY 31, 2024
Invite your learners to design a sensational STEAM experience with this creative CREST project! Unboxed Events: “UNBOXED was a celebration of creativity across all four nations of the UK.
Box Light
JANUARY 31, 2024
In the blend of human expressions, art transcends boundaries, urging us to appreciate, share, and connect. Whether through traditional paintings or modern creations, art is a universal language, offering a canvas for human expression, healing, and enrichment, embraced by both creators and observers.
Scientix
JANUARY 31, 2024
CC-BY provided by the author Nelson Mandela said that education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. Education is a key tool in promoting sustainable development and innovation. The question remains, however, when to start and how to make it happen? From childhood, people start to establish their values, beliefs and aspirations, learning and actively engaging in sustainability and global challenges.
Middle Web
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Emily Mofield offers a practical, realistic and highly readable set of 25 different approaches to teaching in her Vertical Differentiation for Gifted, Advanced and High-Potential Students, a book that almost any classroom teacher would find highly useful, writes Leslie Wise. The post Strategies to Adjust ‘Up’ What Students Know first appeared on MiddleWeb.
All About STEM
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Fantastic news! The Schools’ Observatory has opened registration for the first of their new free CPD courses for educators. Introducing… Our Place in Space! Made with the UK and Irish curricula in mind, The School’s Observatory CPD courses are completely free thanks to the generous funding provided by Liverpool John Moores University.
STEM Discovery Education
JANUARY 27, 2024
Turn your calendar to February and find new engaging resources from Discovery Education! With DE resources, you can plan February fun where your students can explore STEM innovations, important moments in history, and career options to prepare them for the future! Pop of Professional Learning What’s New Trending Topics Magic Moment Pop of Professional Learning […] The post This Month at DE: February appeared first on Discovery Education Blog.
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