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10 Reasons to Create Makerspace in Your SchoolMakerspace is a relatively new method of teaching students in a space where they can get hands-on experience working with concepts they recently learned. The point of the space is to make, create, and invent new things. There are many advantages to giving students a place to apply concepts, and those benefits are true for all areas and fields of study. This article will help you understand why you should go ahead and do it. | The Benefits of Active Learning In this article you’ll read that active learning techniques seem to have multiple payoffs compared to more traditional instructional methods. The question isn’t whether active learning techniques work. The question is why we’re not doing more of them given the rich research supporting their effectiveness. | Educating an Anxious Generation: How K12 is Outwitting AnxietyData indicates that in the U.S. there is an unprecedented increase in levels of student stress. Not only in teens and middle schoolers but also in third, fourth, and fifth graders. “For the first time, teens are more stressed than their parents.” This article discusses the range of strategies school leaders are using to confront this reality. |
10 Reasons to Create Makerspace in Your School
Makerspace is a relatively new method of teaching students in a space where they can get hands-on experience working with concepts they recently learned. The point of the space is to make, create, and invent new things. There are many advantages to giving students a place to apply concepts, and those benefits are true for all areas and fields of study. This article will help you understand why you should go ahead and do it.
The Benefits of Active Learning
Educating an Anxious Generation: How K12 is Outwitting Anxiety
Data indicates that in the U.S. there is an unprecedented increase in levels of student stress. Not only in teens and middle schoolers but also in third, fourth, and fifth graders. “For the first time, teens are more stressed than their parents.” This article discusses the range of strategies school leaders are using to confront this reality.
TEACHERS: No More Crappy Homework
TEACHERS: Why It’s Important to Teach Your Students Financial Literacy and Three Ways to Do It
Most young people are unprepared to make informed financial choices as they move into adulthood. In fact, three out of four young adults cannot answer basic financial questions. The need to improve financial skills and capacities is not unique to any one state or school district. It is a challenge that impacts every corner of America and must be tackled at scale. Teaching financial literacy in the classroom is one promising way to improve financial capacity for today’s young people.
TEACHERS: 4 Ways Teachers Can Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done
If you struggle with procrastination - read this. While procrastination isn't something you can conquer once and for all, day-by-day choices matter a lot in preventing it. Learn what four things you can do to make it easier to overcome those feelings of procrastination when they strike.
TEACHERS: The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom
TEACHERS: Amazing Benefits of Technology in the Classroom (+18 Best Ways to Incorporate Technology)
TEACHERS: Watch Astronauts Read Books From Space
If you’re looking for a way to take story time up a notch with the kids in your life, why not turn to astronauts? That’s the premise of Story Time from Space, a project from the nonprofit Global Space Education Foundation that features astronauts reading beloved children’s books from the International Space Station. The books are ones that can be read in about 15 minutes, involve some sort of concept regarding STEM and must be accurate.
TEACHERS: Why This/Not That? A thinking routine to move students from identification to analysis
TEACHERS: 7 Strategies to Make Grading Easier
PARENTS: Reading Aloud to Young Children Has Benefit for Behavior and Attention
PARENTS: The New Unwritten Rule for Parents That Hurts Everyone
Today, society seems to embrace a new unwritten rule for parents. It’s a gauge by which we all seem to measure whether we’re succeeding or failing at being a good mom or dad. It’s a total shift from the parents a generation ago. Here is the new report card parents allow themselves to be evaluated by:
You must provide your child every advantage possible to get ahead.
LEADERS: One Shot PD or On-going PD?
Evan Robb defines ongoing professional development as PD that meets the needs of the school, occurs at the school, andfor all staff in the school. He shares two ways to start ongoing professional development in a school: hiring a paid consultant with a specific focus for the year or a school-wide book/professional study. In the first post he shares ideas on hiring a paid consultant to provide PD and in a followup post he discusses an effective way to engage in a school-wide book study.
LEADERS: 3 Prevailing Beliefs That Limit Leadership
LEADERS: Why It's Time to Rethink School Science Fairs
Springtime is science fair season. Thousands of kids across the country, from elementary through high school, spend weeks or months coaxing seedlings to grow, building devices to harness solar energy and carefully mixing acids and bases. This article addresses the problems inherent with many science fairs and looks at the creative ways schools are tweeking their science fairs and/or implementing a standards-based fair.
LEADERS: Putting Learning First with New Tech Tools
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, When to Say It and When to Listen
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