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Try this game in your next vocabulary lesson
Debra Josephson Abrams Education"It was so boring! I hated learning new words that way!" exclaimed a frustrated student about traditional vocabulary learning strategies. The student was one of a number interviewed by Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen and Khuat Thi Thu Nga in their action research about how to stimulate Vietnamese students' interest in vocabulary learning.
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Ensuring school security: The good, the great and the terrifying
Ryan Clark EducationFollowing the recent college shootings in Oregon, Texas and Arizona, schools nationwide are rightfully investigating ways to strengthen their building security. More than ever, school safety is in the news. While many are placing the eye of scrutiny on guns, others are choosing to place it on physical accessibility.
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The key to making independent educational evaluations work
Howard Margolis EducationYou're happy. You sent your child's IEP team a brief request for an independent educational evaluation (IEE), and they agreed with it. Like you, the team members said they wanted greater insight into your child's struggles with reading, writing and related problems.
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Why you should consider specially designed instruction
Savanna Flakes EducationStrategies, such as cooperative learning, explicit instruction and blended learning are effective for students with disabilities and are also best practices for all students. But even when using these strategies, a teacher should consider specially designed instruction (SDI).
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How can we make school lunches both healthy and tasty?
Bambi Majumdar EducationA recent article in The New York Times — "Why Students Hate School Lunches" — has sparked off quite a debate in the education world. Thanks to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which took effect in 2012, and other similar strategies, 30 million kids have access to healthy school lunches every day.
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ELL writing skills: Getting started
Douglas Magrath EducationWriting for the L2 learner is a developmental process analogous to reading. It is also a direct communication from writer to reader. Note the following from the ACTFL Standards: "Learners present information, concepts and ideas to inform, explain, persuade and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers or viewers."
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Academic coaching helps college STEM students with disabilities
Ruth Bomar EducationCollege students with disabilities face a barrier to success. Experts have found that college students with disabilities who are pursuing science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees express their struggle to manage time, complete assignments, maintain focus or shift focus from one task to another, make plans and organize tasks.
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As rate of school shootings rises, what can educators do?
Brian Stack EducationThis week, our country mourns the loss of 10 people in a school shooting at a small community college in Roseburg, Oregon. In that same event, another nine were injured. At a vigil the night of the shooting, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown stated, "In our sorrow, we will remember and honor those lost today, and they will forever be in our hearts. May peace be with you."
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Integrative tests: A better way to assess English learners
Douglas Magrath EducationTesting in ESL is the means of assessing the learners' progress in specific skill areas. Teachers need to make up their own tests to measure the learners' progress, to examine specific skill areas and to discover deficiencies.
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Motivation is key in turning around learning disabilities
Ronald M. Kraus, Ph.D. EducationThough there is surprisingly scant research on motivation and learning disabilities (35 relevant articles in the last 10 years, per a recent PsychInfo and ERIC library search), motivation is in fact key to helping create change for students with learning disabilities. It is the engine that drives the train of learning, the spark that propels the individual.
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