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Teach Vocabulary with the Frayer Model

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This is well-suited to teaching academic vocabulary for all and domain-specific for particular topics (such as math). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. If that isn’t sufficient, students use affixes — prefixes, suffixes, and roots — to decode meaning.

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Lessons Learned My First 5 Years Of Teaching

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It’s always interesting to find out what new teachers learned in their early teaching that affected their later years. It makes teaching easy if kids love to be in the room every day. Below are five lessons that I have learned in my first five years of teaching. Those were the darkest days of my teaching career.

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3 Projects to Teach 1st Grade Architecture

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This one is teaching architecture to youngers: Lesson Plan: Three projects over six weeks and your students will learn about blueprints, room layout, dimensions, and more. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Many Fridays, I report on a wonderful website or project my classes and parents love.

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Resources to Teach Taxes

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After April 15th, there are great ways to teach about economics, financial literacy, and prepare students for managing their lives fiscally once they’re launched into the world: Bankaroo –a virtual bank for kids. Rate-zip –how to teach financial topics to K-12. Rate-zip –how to teach financial topics to K-12.

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Teach Critical Thinking

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I’ve discussed problem-solving before (see How to Teach Students to Solve Problems ). It validates what many teachers already teach, the problem-solving steps included in Common Core, as well as how most of us intuitively set out to solve a problem. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Model Teaching–How Today’s Educators Learn

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Thousands of teachers every year take education classes to renew their license, move up to the next salary range at their school (I did that–often), or learn teaching skills they didn’t get in their degree program (like remote teaching or in-depth technology). I recently received an email from the folks at Model Teaching.

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Use Tech to Teach Languages

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His teaching expertise and innovative approach became a jumping-off place for many talented IT professionals. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Bio Roman Zhidkov is a trainer at DDI development and a practicing lecturer with 10 year of experience in various courses.

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