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This is the curriculum I created around the website "Stocksquest," a stock market simulation. This curriculum was part of my semester project for David Perkins' class "Cognition and the Art of Instruction." The goal was to facilitate the learning of a valuable skill (investing your money) while making connections to the discipline of economics and real world events.
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Finland stays top of global class
Finland and South Korea remain among the superpowers of education, according to a major international study. The three-yearly Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) shows that the two countries are in the top five for reading and maths.
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Virtual manipulatives related to the NCTM Algebra standard.
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Harry Potter has cast a spell over pupils at a once-failing school with Hogwarts-inspired lessons said to be behind a dramatic reversal in fortunes.
Wizard-themed lessons are just one of the techniques woven into the curriculum at Robert Mellors Primary School, in Nottingham. Children dress as their favourite Harry Potter characters, chant spells and use their wands in maths classes.
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American students even in low-performing states like Alabama do better on math and science tests than students in most foreign countries, including Italy and Norway, according to a new study released yesterday. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that students in Singapore and several other Asian countries significantly outperform American students, even those in high-achieving states like Mass
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Choices teaching materials incorporate the latest scholarship to make connections between historical events and contemporary international issues. Choices teaching materials are used in a range of courses including U.S. history, world history, global studies, and government.
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The Gallery of Teaching and Learning provides premier, digital representations of knowledge related to teaching and learning. The carefully crafted and vetted work of numerous participants of Carnegie Foundation programs and partners provides examples for individuals, projects, departments, institutions, communities of practice, and for the simply curious.
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WIDE World builds on thirty years of classroom-based research from Project Zero and the Harvard Graduate School of Education to provide professional development programs that incorporate the essential elements - the DNA - of effective teaching. Our online courses, on-site workshops, and individually designed district plans guide teachers, teacher leaders, coaches, and school leaders on coordinated journeys towards wide-scale improvement in classrooms and schools.
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Lo these many years later, the council has admitted, more or less, that it goofed. In a report released Tuesday, the council, confronting "inconsistency in the grade placement of mathematics topics as well as in how they are defined and what students are expected to learn," laid down a new law restoring "old school" values. The multiplication table... is to be drilled into kids' heads again.
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This is the curriculum I created around the website "Stocksquest," a stock market simulation. This curriculum was part of my semester project for David Perkins' class "Cognition and the Art of Instruction." The goal was to facilitate the learning of a valuable skill (investing your money) while making connections to the discipline of economics and real world events.
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