Classroom Strategies

Results for Classroom Strategies

Service-Learning and Prejudice Reduction

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Four steps every educator should take to help ensure service projects reduce stereotyping, rather than reinforce it. Research shows that service-learning can increase students' ...
'The Capacity for Connection'

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In this special Q & A, educators Louise Derman-Sparks and Patricia G. Ramsey, authors of the book, What If All the Kids are White? , provide early grades educators with practical ideas on preparing ...
Successful ESL Strategies

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High school teacher Kristan Taylor uses oral history projects and journaling to help ESL and non-ESL students "realize that they often share the same problems, frustrations and hopes for the future." ...
A Journal Can Be Anything

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Too many educators believe the only way to journal is with the written word. Yes, we want our students to write — to increase their power through literacy. But why can't they use multiple intelligences to ...
Mutual Learning Through Conversation

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Certain encounters help young students develop values and virtues that open spaces in their minds and hearts so they can see the ...
A New Set of Rules

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Create a classroom constitution as the school year kicks off. With the advent of a new school year, teachers far and wide are settling into classrooms full of new faces and new ...
What's a Teacher to Do?

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Here are five things you can do to make your classroom respectful and culturally sensitive. As the participants in the roundtable point out, Asian American children are a diverse ...
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