It’s important to involve parents in their child’s learning process. One way the Temple Independent School District has reached out to parents is through the use of a YouTube Channel. The school district already had a YouTube channel with lessons targeting students across grade levels. To this, they added a “Just for Parents” section. Why
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Teachers are responsible for creating a safe, stable learning environment for their students through various disciplinary tactics. Suspending students from school is one of the most common forms of discipline, with the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) reporting that 2.8 million K-12 students received at least one out-of-school suspension (OSS)
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Teachers are the arbitrators of knowledge and culture. Knowledge and culture are each dynamic, endlessly crashing and churning. This makes teaching significantly important and difficult work and can leave teaching—as a craft—wide-eyed in response. Worse, those outside the bubble of education can understandably struggle to understand the problem. What are they teaching in those schools
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Two strategies for teaching students to be critical of messages they encounter in texts and other media and to voice their own views. Students are often given assigned readings along with written assignments that ask them to retell or summarize what they read, and perhaps to explain why the information is important. This may also
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“Teaching in the Internet age means we must teach tomorrow’s skills today.” – Jennifer Fleming With the fast-paced world of technological influences, the educational system has become one of the motivating factors in social and economic development that defines the long-term future of society. With the advent of the information age with E-school facilitation, one
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This is my story about why I love lifelong learning. I completed my official tertiary studies over a decade ago. My study story is probably similar to that of most – suddenly school’s coming to an end and you don’t really have any idea what you want to study at tertiary level. This is how
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The brain does a lot of thing, including helping you to learn new things. Ever imagined how miserable life would be if your brain were to permanently fail to assimilate all those new information that is thrust at you every day at school? Indeed, life would be horrible! But do you know that there are
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As you may well know, taking risks is a normal thing for most teenagers. For them, it’s like testing the boundaries and living the prime life; it is their own way of discovering life on their own terms. Indeed, the average teen takes at least one major risk before outgrowing teenagehood. Interestingly, no matter the
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We hate to admit this, but quite a number of students learn their books and still fail their exams. These students do all the necessary things- plotting their timetables, sticking to said timetables and doing all the assignments and homework given them. Yet they fail! This makes one wonder what could be responsible for this.
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Ideally speaking, every student’s favourite place should be the library. However, I must admit that this is usually not the case. That not withstanding, there are quite a number of students make out time to visit the library on a daily. This is a good thing, even though not all of them are familiar with
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