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Welcome to the complete collection of our Photo Masterclasses. Just click on the images below to download a PDF of each masterclass and your photography skills will soon improve with our experts' advice.

One minute a day is all you need to improve your listening skills. Focus on new words, grammar and pronunciation in these short texts. Doing the online activities, discussion, survey and writing will help. Listen many times - enough for you to you understand everything. Listen A Minute.

Jaimie is the founder and president of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Educationin New York City. The Cloud Institute monitors the evolving thinking and skills of the mostimportant champions of sustainability and transforms them into educational materials and apedagogical system that inspire young people to think about the world, their relationship to it,and their ability to influence it in an entirely new way. Cloud is one of the pioneers of Educationfor Sustainability (EfS) in the U.S. and has produced a set of EfS Standards and PerformanceIndicators that schools are using to innovate their own curricula to educate for sustainability.

Build your vocabulary through never-ending games powered with real-world usage and tailored to your skill level.

Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Students use the iPod touches to record themselves reading what Nienhueser calls a fresh read passage, as it is the first time they have read it. They then listen to the recording and score themselves based on a rubric given to them by their teacher. The rubric scores students based on their level of fluency, expression, pacing and smoothness. Next, each student meets with a partner so they can evaluate someone else’s recording. Nienhueser said students have to be able to explain why they chose the scores they selected. The partners also take time to see if they agree with each other’s scores.

This Wiki is a compilation of interactive resources and lesson plan ideas that can be used by K-12 teachers when addressing 21st Century and Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS).

Without adopting inquiry-based, student-centered, skill-driven approaches to teaching and learning -- all nested in a system that values innovation -- STEM education will become just another term for additional math and engineering courses.

heart of any STEM program should be courses in which students create products, not just take tests

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What are the potential benefits and drawbacks of using technology for learning? Are tech tools essentials, distractions or somewhere in between? How are other teachers using technology? What tech skills do today’s teachers need to use digital tools effectively?

it is important for you to stay current in your field of study and pursuit of knowledge and skills

you can end up with an overloaded stream very quickly and there's no end in sight!

Let's start with a few definitions. Maybe you've encountered these terms somewhere in your reading already – aggregating, filtering, and curating have become popular ways to describe the tasks important to the efficient management of information.