Students Grades dropped from B.C. report cardsvernonmorningstar.com - Jennifer Smith A, B, C’s are being taken from students in B.C. Letter grades are a thing of the past for students from Kindergarten to Grade 9 due to new curriculum …
Indigenous Peoples How do teachers know what they don’t know? Indigenous stories are a place to start | The Starthestar.com - Shree Paradkar “Education must not simply teach work — it must teach life.” FERGUS, ONT.—There are times when Colinda Clyne finds herself acting on her traditional …
Artificial Intelligence This Is The One Critical Piece We’re Missing When It Comes To Learning And Deep UnderstandingForbes - Robyn D. ShulmanHow many times have you sat in a classroom and felt like you were listening to Charlie Brown's teacher? Most of us have sat in classes, business or faculty meetings with the thought, "Not again." Many
Vancouver, BC Parents, kids disgruntled about Vancouver schools' shortened recessCBC News - CBC News · Kids often mischievously answer that recess is their favourite school subject, but some parents and students in the Vancouver School District are not …
Education Investment in educationjpost.com - JPost Editorial Last Tuesday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a new report on its members’ expenditure on education. It …
Indigenous Peoples Research guides: Infusing Indigenous Perspectives in K-12 Teaching: Homeutoronto.ca Aaniin! Taansi! She:kon! Welcome to the research guide for Indigenous education. This guide is designed to help Initial Teacher Education students …
Students B.C.'s new high school curriculum: Genocide and Indigenous studies, drones and mechatronics, more projects, fewer examsvancouversun.com - Lori Culbert This year's senior high school students are the guinea pigs of B.C.'s new Grade 11 and 12 curriculum, and many appear to be excited about the new …
Students Who’s Doing the Thinking?christinapodraza.com - Dr. Christina Podraza It’s no secret. Education is a “mile-wide, inch-deep” endeavor with new ideas about what’s best cropping up in district initiatives all over the …
Students ‘Your name is too difficult.’ What a school’s hidden curriculum is telling students | The Starthestar.com - Shree Paradkar “I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions — a movement against and beyond boundaries.” On a cold February day, groups of teachers huddled into …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTeaching Rethinking Teacher Recruitment - Educational Leadershipascd.org - Zachary Herrmann Other industries certainly don't hold back in this regard. I recently got engaged, and while looking for an engagement ring, I was constantly …
Education Why School Districts Are Rethinking Gifted & Talented ProgramsParents Magazine - Sarah Lindenfeld Hall For decades, researchers have shown that students who gain entry into gifted education programs are disproportionately white or Asian American. In …
World Economic Forum Social skills are just as important as basic cognitive ones. This is whyweforum.org There is now ample evidence that socio-emotional skills are as important as basic cognition in driving individual success. Among these skills, grit …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoLearning Cognitive effort, and learning more but feeling like I'm learning lessmetafilter.com - brainwane According to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "though students felt as if they learned more through traditional …
Students New Ways Of Teaching and Learning Improve the Quality of Education in Cambodiaworldbank.org Sreng Ang, a physics teacher who teaches grades 7 and 9 at Hun Sen Taing Kok High School, admires the new way of teaching and learning and observes …
Ontario Spike in violence against Ontario elementary teachers: Studytorontosun.com - Canadian PressThere has been a sharp increase in the level of violence teachers face while working in Ontario’s elementary schools, a study from the University of Ottawa suggests. A team of researchers surveyed more
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoStudents Want to Improve Your Teaching? Start With the Basics: Learn Their Nameschronicle.com - Carol E. Holstead Sign up to get our Quick Tip newsletter: Twice a week, we'll send you fast advice to help you thrive. It's free to receive, and you'll get a mix of …
College & University Universities Aren't Working. Here's How We Fix ThemForbes - Kim NilssonFor many of us, no matter how old we are, September will always be a month that we associate with going back to school. As I write this, there are young people across the U.K. and, indeed, all over the
Pedagogy Why teachers’ good intentions don’t matter when it comes to ‘equity’ in the classroom | The Starthestar.com - Shree Paradkar If the school year in September 2018 had begun under the cloud of a repealed modern sex-education curriculum in Ontario, cancelled Indigenous …
Play buttonLeadership What brain supplements can and can’t do, according to a neuroscientistFast Company - Anisa Purbasari HortonThey might have short-term effects, but they don’t make you smarter in the long run. To boost your cognitive function, do these things instead. If you’ve seen the movie Limitless, Bradley Cooper’s character
Sesame Street Watching 'Sesame Street' Can Lead to Kids' Success in School and Work, According to a New StudyPureWow - Sarah Stiefvater Sesame Street is adorable, sure, but it could also set your kids up for success in school and work, according to a new study. Published by the American …
Education The Way We Teach Kids To Code May Be WrongForbes - Derek NewtonAt the upper bounds of education, in the post-college and career training universes, we think of computer coding as a skill. It’s a thing you can learn how to do that will make you more valuable as an
Education Teaching Never Gets Any Easier. But It Gets Betteredweek.org - Justin Minkel I used to think that at some distant point on a shimmering horizon—five or 15 or 25 years into teaching—suddenly it would get easier. I would know …
Students Extracurricular activities enrich students' lives | The Starthestar.com - Jessica Wynne Lockhart It could best be described as organized chaos. Over pulsating music, students push through the crowd, shouting and thrusting pamphlets into the hands …
Learning Study: How smooth-talking professors can lull students into thinking they've learned more than they haveinsidehighered.com - Colleen Flaherty Students who engage in active learning learn more -- but feel like they learn less -- than peers in more lecture-oriented classrooms. That's in part …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoUniversity of British Columbia Core Competencies | UBC Education Library Booklistsubc.ca There are six core competencies in the new British Columbia curriculum; below is a link to a booklist for each of those competencies. To find more …
entertainment news A Teacher Transformed Her Classroom Into Hogwarts And It's So Impressively DetailedBuzzFeed - Christopher HudspethSo much detail! This is public school educator Staci Lamb. She's been teaching for years now and has always "tried to spruce up" her classrooms, but this year she went all out with a Hogwarts-theme. First
Education You Can’t Put A Price On Education… Or Can You?vernonmorningstar.com - Wire Service Planning for your kids’ higher education isn’t always top of mind. It can be hard to imagine your little ones eventually heading off to …
Malcolm Gladwell The 10,000-hour rule has been disproven. Now what?Quartz - Olivia GoldhillThe popularity of the 10,000-hour rule says more about the hope it promises than any rigorous science. The idea that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert in any field was put forward Malcolm
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoStudents Joy in School - Educational Leadershipascd.org - Steven Wolk So what can schools and teachers do to bring some joy into children's formal education? Children typically spend from six to seven hours each day in …
Empowerment 10 Ways to Empower Educatorsesheninger.blogspot.com What motivates you to be your best, take risks, and seek out opportunities to improve? I’d be willing to wager that there are an array of responses …
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