At its best, education broadens the way students view the world and their place in it.
Photo;https://www.education.ne.gov/ When the current school year began, no one knew it would end this way. Now, schools across the country have closed amid a pandemic, many of which are closed for the remainder of the school year. As a result, teachers are devising creative long-distance lessons, students are learning from home, and parents have been …
Photo: https://www.plu.edu/marcom/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2016/02/lincoln-hs-1-26-161099-1024x683.jpg Most educators know that students learn more with teachers who have a strong and caring relationship with them. However, what’s often overlooked, particularly on the secondary level, is the importance of equally strong and healthy relationships among the students. After all, students are people first, and people simply do best when they can …
Photo: https://magcloud.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/creativity.jpg Let’s just say it from the outset: School should be fun. It should be a place where students not only gain knowledge but also develop a curiosity for more of it. Replicating 20th century classrooms, with row upon row of student desks, a teacher's desk as the central focus and monotonous work labeled …
Photo: https://corkboardconnections.blogspot.com/2013/07/classroomfamily.html One of the many reasons I became a teacher was that I genuinely liked being with kids all day—even teenagers. While people often responded with horrified looks when they discovered that I did, in fact, teach teenagers, I always said, “Well, somebody has to like them! And I do.” They were more than …
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