20 April, 2016
When educators talk about “the whole child,” we acknowledge our students as humans with complex lives that include interests, joys, passions, experiences, fears, needs, and
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High-Stakes Test is any test used to make vital decisions about students, educators, schools, or districts, most commonly for the purpose of accountability. Results from
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Questions are a typical way for teachers to check for comprehension. Who hasn’t asked a group of students to determine whether or not they understood
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When we think of student engagement in learning activities, it is often convenient to understand engagement with an activity as being represented by good behavior
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Unwritten, unofficial, and often unintended lessons, values, and perspectives that students learn in school. Comprises of the unspoken or implicit academic, social, and cultural messages
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Google searches for “classroom design” or “science of classroom design” yield beneficial results on how to set up your classroom for student success. Yet, with the
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Growth Mindset is a concept developed by psychologist Carol Dweck and popularized in her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Used by many schools and
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Today, teaching mindfulness in the classroom is a necessity. Teachers, as well as children are stressed and anxious. Our lives are busy, and we often
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The Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery is an assessment developed to forecast student success in foreign language learning, or language learning aptitude, and for diagnosing language
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