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The Value of Listening in the Classroom: How to Teach Your Students Active Listening

Waterford

In school, one example of active listening would be a student waiting their turn and considering what their peers have to say before stating their opinion in a classroom discussion. A classroom example of passive listening? Provide students with an opportunity to model active listening skills by holding regular classroom meetings.[7]

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Conflict Resolution Techniques You Can Use in Your Classroom

Waterford

Conflict: It’s great for drama, and an inescapable part of human progress, but it can make for fraught situations in the classroom. Conflict can happen even in the most supportive, positive, and open classrooms, disrupting your students’ ability to learn. But there are concrete steps you can take to settle problems in the classroom.

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Better Feedback for Deeper Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Goodwin & Miller (2012) provided this summary: In Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's 2001 meta-analysis, McREL researchers found an effect size for feedback of 0.76, which translates roughly into a 28-percentile point difference in average achievement (Beesley & Apthorp, 2010; Dean, Pitler, Hubbell, & Stone, 2012).

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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

From grade school to higher education, Smart Classrooms have become a mainstay of the modern educational environment. For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology.

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ISTE 2018: 5 Best Practices for Adhering to Federal Privacy Laws

EdTech Magazine

classrooms, it’s critical to keep student data safe. The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) was established in 2001 with the No Child Left Behind Act and is known for its provisions dealing with surveys and assessments. ISTE 2018: 5 Best Practices for Adhering to Federal Privacy Laws. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

This conclusion was reinforced by Feutz (2001). when students are expected to use classroom computers. Sormunen’s 1991 study found that classroom instructors were teaching keyboarding, but only 12% had any formal preparation in how to do that. when a child’s interests dictate a demand for typing.

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Dave Burgess Talks Student Engagement #MondayMotivation #tlap

The CoolCatTeacher

How Dave feels about leaving the classroom. What Dave would do differently if he was in the classroom now. Michael Matera talks about how to gamify your classroom in Explore Like a Pirate. (One 50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller. Selected Links from this Episode.