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6 Ways To Empower Students With SEL
6 Ways To Empower Students With SEL by Drew Perkins and Jason Littlefield In recent years educators and students have increasingly endured a social emotional crisis as divisiveness and chaos continues to spread through our culture. As education leaders answer the...
The Trouble With Measuring Understanding
What Is The Trouble With Measuring Understanding? by Terry Heick Assessing understanding might be the most complex thing a teacher ever does. Unfortunately, professional development gives a lower level of attention to developing quality assessments, training that is...
What Is Social-Emotional Learning?
The Definition Of Social Emotional Learning by Terry Heick What is Social-Emotional Learning? Within the context of public education, Social-Emotional Learning is a kind of recognition and slight re-direction of priority, hierarchy, and practice that emphasizes the...
What Is Emotional Intelligence?
What Is Emotional Intelligence? There are many different kinds of intelligence. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences identifies eight types: Spatial (the ability to visualize three-dimensional objects) Naturalist (the ability to understand and read...
How Inquiry Teaching Can Help Us Through Divided Times
How Inquiry Teaching Can Help Us Through Divided Times by Drew Perkins, Director of TeachThought PD Educators and education, in general, are increasingly getting swept into the morass of culture wars and polemic battles playing out in our media and political processes...
Active Listening Strategies For Charismatic Student Conversations
What Are The Best Strategies For Teaching Students To Listen Actively? Active listening involves employing different behaviors to enhance understanding among two or more people in a conversation. An active listener is present in the conversation. They hear the...
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