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4 Things You Don't Know About the Jigsaw Method. English Activities for High School You'll Want to Try Right Now. This is Water. Want to help your child succeed in school? It’s about reading, not homework. WW2 Tweets from 1945 (@RealTimeWWII) Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Legacies in BC. Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Legacies in BC is the result of an educational legacy initiative following the May, 2014, BC government's formal apology for historical wrongs committed against BC’s Chinese Canadian community.

Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Legacies in BC

Prior to the formal apology, consultation forums were held with representatives of Chinese Canadian communities across the province. Community representatives commented on the wording and delivery of the apology, and offered suggestions and advice on legacy efforts resulting from the apology. The overwhelming consensus at every forum was the need to update the BC Kindergarten to Grade 12 social studies curriculum, and provide supporting educational resources to better reflect our rich multicultural heritage, as well as to acknowledge the contributions Chinese British Columbians have made to our cultural, economic, and social fabric. Ww2.kqed. I Never Thought Gifted and Talented Kids Could Be At-Risk Too, Until My Son Said He Wanted to Drop Out of School. It’s almost the end of the summer and I realize that the professional development I have been in has been pretty fantastic, and pretty awful.

I Never Thought Gifted and Talented Kids Could Be At-Risk Too, Until My Son Said He Wanted to Drop Out of School

I spent a good amount of time discussing about how we teachers can perfect our craft reaching at-risk students—a great goal. The difficulty is that defining an at-risk student can be hard. We talked a lot about “those in poverty, those with gender issues, those with disabilities, and diverse students who struggle to have a voice and be accepted.”

This makes sense. The Big Three: Examples and Insights from Delta Teachers. Ww2.kqed. 10 Self-Analysis Questions That Cultivate Independent Thinking Abilities. Are your learners fostering their independent thinking abilities?

10 Self-Analysis Questions That Cultivate Independent Thinking Abilities

Have them periodically ask themselves these 10 questions. All About Escape Rooms. 37 Books With Plot Twists That Will Blow Your Mind. Building Students' Cognitive Flexibility. In today's world, the skillsets of cognitive flexibility are more critical and valuable than ever before.

Building Students' Cognitive Flexibility

These skillsets include: Open-minded evaluation of different opinions, perspectives, and points of viewWillingness to risk mistakesConsideration of multiple ways to solve problemsEngagement in learning, discovery, and problem solving with innovative creativity My previous posts in this series described strategies to build students' executive functions of organization, prioritizing, judgment, and critical analysis. How To Ensure Students Are Actively Engaged and Not Just Compliant. Engagement is a crucial part of learning, but ensuring students are actively engaged is more complex than whether a student is paying attention or not.

How To Ensure Students Are Actively Engaged and Not Just Compliant

As technology has made its way into the classroom many educators describe how attentive students are when on devices, but a quiet, outwardly behaved student is not the same thing as one that is truly engaged. The kind of engagement that leads to learning is three dimensional. Too often educators look at engagement as a “yes or no” question: students are either engaged or they’re not. “That is absolutely not an appropriate way to view it,” said John Almarode, associate professor at James Madison University and co-director of the school’s Center for STEM Education and Outreach. How to Bring Playfulness to High School Students. It’s easy to focus on academics and college transcripts when children become tweens and teens, but retaining the agency and creativity inherent in play is crucial for them, too.

How to Bring Playfulness to High School Students

But what is the high school equivalent for the kind of inquisitive learning that happens when little kids play in the sandbox, finger-paint, build with blocks or play make-believe? “When your 4-year-old is dipping his hand in the rice table, he’s learning really important things about tactile touch,” said Denise Pope, senior lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and co-founder of Challenge Success. “Older kids need those same tactile, hands-on experiences to learn as well.” Teenagers need creative outlets, just like elementary school children. Those experiences helps open their brains in different ways, gets them excited about learning and allows them to have fun. There are several ways to encourage teenagers to learn playfully.

Free Choice Time: Student-Directed Learning Play Resources. What Makes an ‘Extreme Learner’? When Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski was dissecting a sheep’s heart during an eighth-grade science class, she had an epiphany that changed her life.

What Makes an ‘Extreme Learner’?

“That heart told the story of anatomy and physiology!” A Neuroscientist Explains Adult Coloring Books. A few months ago, I caved: I bought myself a coloring book.

A Neuroscientist Explains Adult Coloring Books

And maybe you did, too, or perhaps you received one as a gift for the holidays. According to a recent Fortune article, adult coloring books are one of the biggest contributors to this year’s boost in print-book sales. With over 11,000 search results total, five of Amazon’s current top 15 best-selling books are coloring books. How Digital Games Help Teachers Make Connections to Lessons and Students. It’s not unusual for educators to use analog games in the classroom, but as more classrooms gain access to technology, digital games are also making a strong showing.

How Digital Games Help Teachers Make Connections to Lessons and Students

A recent Joan Ganz Cooney Center survey of 694 K-8 teachers found that 74 percent of those surveyed use digital games in the classroom, up from 50 percent two years ago. Many of the teachers finding the most success are good at creatively connecting the game back to the curriculum, while allowing it to maintain the qualities of a good game. These teachers are often more comfortable with games themselves, playing for fun in their spare time, and are thus more likely to see valuable classroom connections. What Do We Really Mean When We Say ‘Personalized Learning’?

The idea of personalized learning is seductive – it implies moving away from the industrialized form of education that pumps out cookie-cutter students with the same knowledge and skills.

What Do We Really Mean When We Say ‘Personalized Learning’?

After decades of this approach, it is clear that all children don’t learn the same way and personalization seems to honor those differences. However, that term has taken on several different meanings. “When you say personalization, what do you mean by that?” Asked Diana Laufenberg, director of Inquiry Schools and a former teacher at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. The Neuroscience Behind Stress and Learning. The realities of standardized tests and increasingly structured, if not synchronized, curriculum continue to build classroom stress levels. Neuroimaging research reveals the disturbances in the brain's learning circuits and neurotransmitters that accompany stressful learning environments.

The neuroscientific research about learning has revealed the negative impact of stress and anxiety and the qualitative improvement of the brain circuitry involved in memory and executive function that accompanies positive motivation and engagement. The Proven Effects of Positive Motivation. What Students Can Learn from Giving TEDx Talks. Where Students Create Their Own Learning Experiences. Education 3.0–Where Students Create Their Own Learning Experiences by Terry Heick Curriculum maps are well-meaning and imminently practical documents that have guided educators–and education–for years. How these documents function in classrooms, schools, and districts is highly variable. Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement.