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Twitter NE1?
In her Click Here column, Brenda Dyck does a beautiful job of helping us incorporate and navigate technology, but I want to add my voice to hers in support of a particularly powerful tool: Twitter. To be honest,...
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Rick Wormeli
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Recognizing the A in STEM Education
We live in a world where you can’t understand science without technology, which couches most of if its research and development in engineering, which you can’t create without an understanding of the...
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Georgette Yakman
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Service-learning is a teaching and learning method that connects meaningful, community service experiences with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility (Shumer & Duckenfield, 2004). Learning...
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Shirley Theriot
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The New Look of Student Leadership
Students learn how to be leaders without having to win an election.
Posters, buttons, rally speeches, and Robert’s Rules of Order have been mainstays of school-level politics for decades. Regardless of grade level, participation is limited to those students who are willing to...
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Sandy Cameli
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You Can Smile! Classroom Management Tips
We've all heard that teacher adage, "Don't smile before Christmas." How many of you abided by that rule this year, contending that smiling before the winter holidays would somehow make you lose control of your...
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Theresa L. Roberts
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Bending Over Backward
Teaching about Idioms
Have you ever told a student she "dropped the ball" on an assignment? Do you encourage your students by telling them to "reach for the stars" or "go for the gold"? Your native English-speaking students likely...
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Melanie W. Greene
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3 Tips for Teaching Speaking and Listening Skills
Students need strong speaking and listening skills to succeed in school and beyond.
There is truth to the old adage "what is tested, is taught," particularly in the past several years of assessment mania. The question we need to be asking ourselves, though, is what "test" are we preparing our...
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Amber Chandler
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Easy 10-Minute Review Strategies
When using a direct teaching strategy, it is important to keep students engaged and check for understanding of the ideas and concepts presented. Eric Jensen, a leader in brain-based learning, claims that it is...
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Jill Spencer
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Heart over Head: Motivating Reluctant Learners
In the early 1970s, Charles Silberman’s book Crisis in the Classroom rocked the education landscape with its verdict that schools were sterile, dry places of learning. Although the claims of the book should...
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Charles Beaman
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Habla con ellos—Talk to them: Latinas/os, achievement, and the middle grades
Moving bilingual children beyond subordinated categories toward full engagement in relevant and authentic learning that embraces their communities.
Our faculty in the Education Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte often spends time discussing issues we see within our middle grades program, including with our undergraduate teacher candidates...
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Spencer Salas, Jeanneine P. Jones, Theresa Perez, Paul G. Fitchett, & Scott Kissau
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