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Teacher Flexibility And The New Normal, Sheila Mulder
Teacher Flexibility And The New Normal, Sheila Mulder
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"The pandemic revealed the strong need for caring for the whole person and implementing informed teaching practices and principles."
Posting about adapting to change in education from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/teacher-flexibility-and-the-new-normal/
Language As Communion, James C. Schaap
Language As Communion, James C. Schaap
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"Language is a profound and almost magical gift of God, a gift of mystery and deep human importance."
Posting about the complexity of language from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/language-as-communion/
Reaching All The Students In Your Classroom, Kathleen Vantol
Reaching All The Students In Your Classroom, Kathleen Vantol
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This presentation discusses scaffolding: distinct instructional techniques which provide the supports that struggling learners may need to learn challenging lesson content. Planning for inclusion of appropriate scaffolding requires that teachers know both their students and their content well.
Celebrating Diversity In Christian Schools With Differentiation, Patricia C. Kornelis
Celebrating Diversity In Christian Schools With Differentiation, Patricia C. Kornelis
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Does it matter if some of your students are lost and have no idea how to connect with you and with learning? Does it matter if some of your students are consistently ahead and are spending considerable time waiting for the rest of us to catch up?
How Teaching Has Changed In The Last 36 Years, Ed Starkenburg
How Teaching Has Changed In The Last 36 Years, Ed Starkenburg
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"Since I first started teaching 36 years ago, in some ways, teaching has changed significantly. In other ways, we’re still trying to accomplish the same thing."
Posting about changes in professional education development from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/how-teaching-has-changed-in-the-last-36-years/
Why Is School Like A Prison?, David J. Mulder
Why Is School Like A Prison?, David J. Mulder
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"Imagine the change in motivation in a classroom that was formerly teacher-directed to one where students have a voice in the learning process!"
Posting about enhancing the student experience from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/why-is-school-like-a-prison/
Leadership Development In Student Athletes, Jeff Schouten
Leadership Development In Student Athletes, Jeff Schouten
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"Our society needs strong leaders whether it’s in the workplace, families, church, or general community."
Posting about growth in all areas of a student's life from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/leadership-development-in-student-athletes/
Christian Views Of The Student, Steve Holtrop
Christian Views Of The Student, Steve Holtrop
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"Because we are very influenced by the philosophies of our age, we need to critically examine these -isms through a biblical lens."
Posting about a Christian perspective on understanding students from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/christian-views-of-the-student/
Letter To Teachers, David J. Mulder
Letter To Teachers, David J. Mulder
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"Remember: you matter. You make a difference. You are fulfilling your calling!"
Posting about encouragement for teachers from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/a-letter-to-teachers/
We're In The Kid Business, Joshua E. Bowar
We're In The Kid Business, Joshua E. Bowar
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"It’s our deep desire to train children in the way they should go, to help them to seek out God’s will for their life, to help them use their talents and gifts, and to draw them closer to God by learning about His world and His Word."
Posting about Christian education from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/were-in-the-kid-business/
Group Retesting To Promote Learning Self-Awareness And Individual Accountability, Robbin Eppinga, Kayt E. Frisch, Jeff Ploegstra
Group Retesting To Promote Learning Self-Awareness And Individual Accountability, Robbin Eppinga, Kayt E. Frisch, Jeff Ploegstra
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Allowing students to retake tests in groups provides them with the immediate opportunity to learn from their mistakes while improving their perceptions of a course. We explore Group Review Advancing Content/Concept Essentials (aka GRACE), a variation on group retesting, which creates a peer learning environment and emphasizes individual metacognition, concept articulation, and accountability. Through an interactive demonstration, we introduce the process, relate some of the literature-reported benefits of group retesting, and share our experiences using GRACE in a variety of disciplines at different course levels.
Standardized Testing: Help Or Harm?, Steve Holtrop
Standardized Testing: Help Or Harm?, Steve Holtrop
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"Outside of the halls of education, we have many real-world ways to test knowledge and skills. If we want to teach someone to bake a cake or do a J-stroke in a canoe, we don’t give a paper and pencil test – we look for successful demonstrations of the skills. Even where we need a paper test for some head knowledge stuff, like when we get a driver’s license, the road test is the real proof of the pudding. In school settings, then, what we really need are valid measures of what students know and can do. A well-rounded toolbox …
Education As Formation, David J. Mulder
Education As Formation, David J. Mulder
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"Most all of us have had a "long internship" in school--from kindergarten through high school--and we think we know what teachers do. Teaching is a very public profession, after all. But there is more to being a teacher than sharing information."
Posting about the formative nature of education from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/education-as-formation/