Tag: edchat
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How many "Karen Fitzgibbons" are still teaching our kids?
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
The Top 5 Unexpected Benefits of Early Childhood Education
A trend is emerging when it comes to P-20 education: optional preschool is becoming a thing of the past. As a nation, we’re finally beginning to ... -
Building a Nurturing and Supportive Environment for Students
As a student-centered instructional method, culturally responsive instruction is focused on catering to the social, emotional, and educational needs of the student. Among the first goals ... -
Men and women biased about studies of STEM gender bias – in opposite directions
David Miller, Northwestern University In 2012, an experiment on gender bias shook the scientific community by showing that science faculty favor male college graduates over equally ... -
Should sex ed start in kindergarten?
Talking about sex to a classroom full of five-year-old kids is likely to make some teachers and parents uncomfortable. But that is the approach that the ... -
Does video feedback improve teaching?
Some teachers aren’t fond of having their classroom interactions filmed and dissected. It may be viewed as intrusive and a way to unfairly criticize an educator’s ... -
Donald Trump says he would cut Department of Education
Presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to make waves. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked Trump what he would do to cut spending if he was elected ... -
Promethean Expands ClassFlow™ Capabilities for Teachers
Ready-to-teach lessons, enhanced collaboration tools, and reward badges among new features available for free (ATLANTA, GA) February 25, 2016 – ClassFlow, an award-winning, free collaborative learning application ... -
myON Adds Classic Novels and Short Stories to its Personalized Literacy Environment
The unabridged fiction in myON Classics includes works by authors such as Mark Twain and Charles Dickens (Minneapolis, MN) February 22, 2016 — myON, a business unit of Capstone and ... -
We Need to Talk About BYOD
The BYOD Listening Project asks: In the rush to control students’ devices, have we overlooked the ‘moment of teaching’? By Sharon Price Campbel If you’re a ...