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Secondary Teachers Transform Their Practice

Battelle for Kids

3) It is common knowledge among secondary English teachers that many students don't read assigned texts, often relying on SparkNotes to successfully complete assignments and prepare for assessments. Gallagher, 2003, p. Why is this happening?

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PBL, Special Needs, and the Secondary Classroom

Battelle for Kids

Driving Question: How can we secondary teachers design PBL instruction so that ALL learners succeed? MNTHS) in Manor, TX is a Project Based Learning (PBL) public school that first opened in August 2007. Volume 2, Issue 10, Number 3. I was a first year science teacher when I started that year.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

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Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts; Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources (9-10 grade Reading Standards–History–2) .

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To the Citizens of BC

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Here are some graphs from Statistics Canada: Summary Elementary and Secondary School Indicators for Canada, the Provinces and Territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011. How much should a collective ‘WE’ spend on creating the best possible public education for ALL of our children? Catalogue-no-81-595-M-No-099-Statistics-Canada ).

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College Students Are Spending Less On Course Materials—And More On Tech

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And it’s part of a steady decline in spending on course materials since the 2007-08 school year, when students were coughing up $701 on course materials. This year’s spending on textbooks and other course materials represents a 26 percent fall from the previous year, when students spent $456, or $53 per course. What’s driving the decline?

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Dave Burgess Talks Student Engagement #MondayMotivation #tlap

The CoolCatTeacher

he was awarded the BAMMY for Secondary School Teacher of the Year by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. As a teacher in San Diego, California, he was a 2001 and 2012 Golden Apple winner in the Grossmont Union High School District and the 2007-2008 Teacher of the Year at West Hills High School.

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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

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Guidelines to assist the implementation of differentiated learning activities in South African secondary schools. International Journal of Diversity in Organizations: Annual Review, November 2007, 7(3), pp. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013, 17(1), pp. Landrum, T.J., and McDuffie, K.A.