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Effective mathematics teaching is required to improve mathematics education. The experience that the teachers provide shape the students' understanding and their ability to use mathematics in their daily lives. This research study was carried out by a few UCF faculty members, as well as some from other colleges and universities. It focused on pre-service elementary school teachers and their ability to contextualize and decontextualize fraction subtraction problems by both writing problems and choosing problems that support given expressions.

Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework that guides curriculum redesign to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all students based on scientific insights into how humans learn. It provides strategies of implementation, as well as examples.

A creative arts program for talented students in Johannesburg (South Africa) is intended to foster perceptual-, aesthetic-, cultural-, social-, and self-awareness, understanding of the arts, as well as an emphasis on expanding creative potential focuses on the processes of sensory, intellectual creative, and aesthetic development.

Explicit Teacher Modeling Purpose The purpose of explicit teacher modeling is to provide students with a clear, multi-sensory model of a skill or concept. The teacher is the person best equipped to provide such a model. What is it? Teacher both describes and models the math skill/concept.

Distance education, as once described by a colleague, is sitting in the back row of a three hundred-seat auditorium. It has traditionally been thought that to successfully teach a large class, you needed to herd students into an auditorium, and proceed to lecture them for several hours.

Bibliotherapy refers to using written material to help individuals process difficult situations or changes in their lives. Bibliotherapy has roots back to the 1930s when librarians created lists of written material to assist individuals to cope with life's situations. The assumption of bibliotherapy is that during reading, the individual will identify with the characters and their situations.

Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resource System provides diagnostic, instructional, and technology support services to district exceptional education programs and families of students with disabilities.

I love the FDLRS and the people there are very nice, easy to talk to, courses are great, and free. Excellent post

August 18, 2014 I love rubrics and I find them particularly helpful in lesson plan designing as well as in assessing students work. I know some teachers and educators think of them as "so yesterday" but we need to view them as roadmaps that can guide you towards achieving your teaching/learning goals.

In the earlier 20th century, educators had very few tools to use to accomplish their goal of educating students. Pens, pencils, markers, blackboards, notebooks, and construction paper were staples in every classroom. Eventually, technology evolved and better teaching tools emerged: overhead projectors, record players, filmstrips, movies, VCRs, tape recorders, Xerox printers, and four-function calculators.

Google doc add-ons for teachers

Creative ideas with digital storytelling

Digital storytelling is one way for students and teachers to share their knowledge. This page includes links to support the use of digital storytelling for both teaching and learning. If you find a link that is not working, please let me know the title and I will fix it.And, if you have another great digital storytelling site to share, let me know as well!

A support page for the presentation Digital Storytelling

At The Stacks, students can post book reviews, get reading recommendations, play games based on the latest series, watch " Meet the Author" videos, and more. It's like Facebook for reading and it's safe for school, too. Use Book Wizard to level your classroom library, find resources for the books you teach, and create reading lists with the click of a button.

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Published: February 5, 2016 Technology is everywhere in education: Public schools in the United States now provide at least one computer for every five students. They spend more than $3 billion per year on digital content.

Reading Counts! lets teachers see if students are transferring instructional reading strategies for hard texts through their success with independent reading. This sounds like it could be very similar, or better than Accelerated Reader.