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“An effective teacher is not someone who just teaches content. An effective teacher is someone who teaches content to distinct human beings, and the classroom must work in such a way that each individual in it has a legitimate opportunity to grow as much as possible from their starting point.”
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— from Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom, 2nd Edition
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Social Emotional Learning (SEL) |
Social Emotional Learning Video Series
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PBS has put together a series of SEL videos that provide an introduction to the core competencies of SEL as well as indicators of high-quality SEL achieved through a school-wide approach. The videos focus on 10 key indicators of school-wide social emotional learning for teachers, administrators and parents.
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Fostering Self-Regulation |
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SEL is Essential to Success in PBL
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Using ChatGTP to Create/Review PYP Units of Inquiry
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Making the Case for Inquiry
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Check out these five playbooks, one for each ATL, produced by Toddle. You will find several skill-based activities to help your students become lifelong learners. The ATL skills playbooks are designed to help you target specific skill indicators in your teaching and learning processes. The playbooks collate exciting ideas for skill-based activities that can be aligned with subjects or used independently for homeroom and other learning spaces.
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A Few Posters on Concepts
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Just Because It Looks Nice Doesn’t Mean Learning Can Happen
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The author of this article, Joshua Barr, states, "...that having an attractive [classroom] environment is not the main objective or results in high quality play/learning. The truth is a kindergarten in play is a little messy, a little disorganized and a process-based environment. Social media pictures and videos often stick to showing the before (children engage with the environment and materials) and leave out the during and after images." Read the article to learn more about the connection between classroom environment and learning.
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Steps to Keep Engagement High During PBL
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Ways to Stop Thinking for Your Students
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Teaching Students to Have Meaningful Conversations
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Conversations are incredibly important. They are a basic unit of all kinds of interactions—formal and informal, serious and frivolous, cursory and thorough—the list is almost unlimited. Whenever we engage with other people, especially one other person, the nature of the conversation we have influences whether it will accomplish what we want and strengthen our relationship. Welcoming students back from their summer break and following a year or more spent distance learning, many students may need a strong refresher in conversational skills with both peers and adults. This article from Edutopia provides strategies to support meaningful conversation.
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Podcasts - Websites Blogs etc. |
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How to Change the World - Implementation Science |
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Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
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Check out the updated PD page to find workshops provided by Kath Murdoch, Chapters International, Toddle, Professional Learning International, Innovative Global Education, and many more. You can check them out here.
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Free Workshop on How to Authentically Integrate
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Learn how to effectively integrate subjects, strategically plan lessons, and inspire critical thinking in students. The workshop is presented by Andy Vasily on March 11th Saturday at 9:00 am UAE, 10:30 am Mumbai, and 2:00 pm Korea. You can register here.
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Students Taking Action Together
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By: Lauren Fullmer and Laura BondStudents Taking Action Together is built on five research-backed teaching strategies that work with existing social studies, English language arts, and history curriculum in the upper-elementary and above. The premiss of the book is: if students are to be good at taking action they have to rehearse democratic behaviors in the classroom and have good oracy skills. Developing good communication skills is the key! As a bonus, watch a webinar where two of the authors, Lauren Fullmer and Laura Bond, discuss their book.
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Leading & Managing a Differentiated Classroom, 2nd Ed
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By: Carol Ann Tomlinson, Marcia B. ImbeauIn this newly updated second edition, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia B. Imbeau explore the central priorities and mindsets of differentiation and provide practical guidelines for making effective student-centered, academically responsive instruction a reality. Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom, 2nd Edition is a foundational guide to the how of differentiation provides the thoughtful strategies teachers need to create and maintain classrooms where each student is recognized and respected and every student thrives.
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Guided Play as Good or Better Than Direct Instruction
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This should not come as a surprise: that guided play is as good as or better than adult-led, direct instruction. A review of seventeen studies confirmed this. It was found that when you stop teaching young children via direct instruction and instead set up purposeful opportunities to play, they learn just as much—or more— when it comes to literacy, numeracy and executive function skills critical to early academic success.
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An Aesthetic Vision of a Supernova
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Math Project: Disneyland Parking Structure
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Draw Perfect Circles By Hand
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An Infinite Lego Domino Circle
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UN Sustainable Development Goals |
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SDG student-friendly resources can be found on the Inspiring Inquiry website HERE
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February 2023 421.62 ppm. February 2022 419.63 ppm.
1 Year Change +1.99 ppm (0.47%) Suggested sustainable level = 350 ppm +71.62 ppm
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The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022
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Wondering how the world is doing in meeting the SDGs? The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 provides a global overview of progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It tracks the global and regional progress towards the 17 Goals with in-depth analyses of selected indicators for each Goal.
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