5 Ideal Traits Of A Project-Based Learning Teacher
Project-based learning teachers aren’t afraid of a lack of knowledge or skill because they can reach out to experts and learn alongside their students.
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A Quick Primer On Charter Schools
A one-size-fits-all approach has never worked in education, and the variety of school options available today attests to that fact. While a number of private schools specialize in specific content or teaching approaches, the costs can be prohibitive to most parents. Charter schools have been rapidly multiplying throughout the country, offering students and families private-school-quality…
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Why Parents Don’t Understand How To Help
Families and communities often only recognize the bits and pieces of education they’ve seen before–letter grades, essays, book reports, and report cards.
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Why Financial Education Is A Smart Investment
In summary, financial education is a long-term investment in human capital that will make a real economic difference for future generations.
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5 Reasons Why PBL May Not Be Working At Your School
5 Reasons Why PBL May Not Be Working At Your School contributed by Drew Perkins Is the project-based learning happening but not working? You’ve read the books, liked and retweeted the tweets, listened to the podcasts, and drank the Kool-Aid. Excitedly, you watched as teachers started their projects with their students, eagerly anticipating their exhibitions of learning as…
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Why You Should Care That Kendrick Lamar Just Won A Pulitzer Prize
Kendrick Lamar winning the Pulitzer Prize in music is important because of context: race continues to be a wound on the American landscape.
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12 Ways To Make Sure A Child Feels Loved
Our society seemingly focuses less on the importance of simply showing love and more on the expectations children are “supposed to have”.
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Apply For Google For Education Certified Innovator 2018 Program Here
Google is looking for innovators who want to innovate across all elements of their transformation framework.
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A Useful Framework For Transparency In Education
The most significant benefit of transparency in education is the ability to see ‘what’s happening’ in the classroom and respond accordingly.
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TeachThought Reader Survey Spring 2018
TeachThought Reader Survey (Spring 2018 Edition) by TeachThought Staff In our continued effort to provide you with the best blend of progressive content about teaching and learning, we have something decidedly non-progressive, but critical: a survey to get feedback from you on what we’re doing well, and what we could do better. It’s not very…
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Sleeping Giants: 4 Under-Appreciated Factors Of School Improvement
To build the perfect public school, we must revamp four critical components: Parents, students, teachers and staff and logistics.
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When We Ask Black Teachers To Discipline Black Students
I eventually left the school. It was clear to me that my presence was to be white muscle disguised in black skin.
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NEW: Educators Can Now Submit Articles To TeachThought
Educators and education professionals can now submit posts by emailing us directly for consideration for publishing on TeachThought.
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Are Students ‘Doing Projects’ Or Learning Through PBL?
Project-based learning is not just doing projects, it’s students learning through the work of a project and that’s a critical distinction.
