Start with less teacher talk and more student-centered learning, says guest columnist Matthew X. Joseph, the director of curriculum, instruction and assessment at Leicester Public Schools in Massachusetts and a featured speaker at DA's FETC 2020.
College students staff nightly homework hotlines for high school and middle school students who math and science help. Rather than serving up the answers, tutors aim to guide the younger students toward solving problems themselves.
Offering professional learning to educators as though they were students does not work for teachers—or students, says Eujon Anderson, a featured FETC 2020 speaker and the technology director for Troy City Schools in Alabama.
Universal Design for Learning recognizes that variability is the norm in learning. UDL's flexible system of instruction should appeal to every student in a classroom.
Schools are experiencing a dramatic shift in how they're run through the landscape of technology, says guest columnist Matthew X. Joseph, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment in Leicester Public Schools. Enhancing school culture through technology requires a dynamic combination of mindset, behaviors and skills.
Scott McLeod, one of the nation's leading experts on P-12 school technology leadership issues, explains how districts are using a new protocol to better leverage technology-infused instruction and modernize the student learning experience.
As science education has expanded in recent years to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards—which include project-based learning and multidisciplinary studies in technology, engineering and mathematics—so have the corresponding science fairs.
