Research Articles and Journals
PROOF POINTS: The surprising effectiveness of having kids study why they failed
An experiment reveals that understanding your errors is more important than correcting your mistakes
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Personalizing history for more impactful student learning
Social studies teachers can help students personalize history by embracing individualized pathways and oral or local history projects.
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3 Strategies for Student Self-Assessment
Direct student engagement in formative assessments boosts self-efficacy and advances learning goals.
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https://www.ascd.org/blogs/3-strategies-for-student-self-assessment
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Just as the two branches of calculus approach observation from opposite directions, successful partnerships harness divergent thinking styles.
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https://www.fastcompany.com/91060977/help-leaders-turn-visions-into-reality
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Elevating the Teaching Profession
Our profession has an image problem—at a crucial time. Let’s fix that.
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https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/elevating-the-teaching-profession
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Getting to Know Students Can Deepen the Learning
Professional development texts are expensive, so when I recently stayed at the house of a friend who has a library full of them, I rubbed my hands together and thought, “Don’t mind if I do!”
One treasure – Zaretta Hammond’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students – is full of useful information and research. I decided to jot down all the strategies that I wanted to try, and to take note of each strategy’s eventual impact.
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https://www.middleweb.com/49907/getting-to-know-students-can-deepen-the-learning/
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