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ELL writing skills: The influence of L1 culture
Douglas Magrath EducationCulture and writing go together — and writing patterns reflect the L1 culture. The ACTFL Standards acknowledge the importance of culture in language teaching.
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Depressed teens may be headed for heart disease
Dorothy L. Tengler Mental HealthcareAdolescence can be a difficult time for both young people and their parents. The normal and often-turbulent hormonal, physical and cognitive changes that occur during this stage of development sometimes make it difficult to recognize and diagnose underlying depression in children. Depression in adolescence may also lead to behavioral problems such as irritability or moodiness, fighting, defiance, skipping school, running away, drug use, and poor grades.
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Beware of resilient, mutated ‘super lice’ — yes, they’re…
Joan Spitrey EducationBack-to-school season is a time for next chapters, seeing old friends, making new friends — and, of course, organized germ exchanges. Yes, the sharing of germs and other critters, such as lice, also is part of the fun of back to school.
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Teacher resources for the new school year
Brian Stack EducationThe end of summer marks the beginning of a new school year across the country. For returning teachers, it is often a time to start with a clean slate and a new outlook on the year ahead. For those who are new to the profession or new to their school or classroom assignment, it is a time to make some decisions about how they will organize their instruction and structure their classroom environment for the upcoming year.
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K-12 science instruction gets a digital boost
Bambi Majumdar EducationData released last year by the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) showed 44 percent of U.S. high school graduates are ready for college-level math, while 36 percent have shown proper readiness for college-level science. A dismal report by all accounts.
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Back to school or back to work? An ideal workplace combines both
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management'Tis the season for the younger set to end their summer jobs, hang up their bathing suits and return to school. For most of us, that time has long passed, yet the memory of having two months off still remains strong. What would happen if we took that same approach to work?
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More than reading: Integrating art into your curriculum
Debra Josephson Abrams EducationOverwhelming evidence undergirds the need for integrated curriculum based in multiple intelligences and learning styles. However, too often, curricula are not integrated, relying instead on artificially compartmentalized courses — usually categorized as reading-writing and listening-speaking, with grammar awkwardly given its own class based in content disconnected from anything else students are doing.
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4 tips for new teachers embarking upon the journey of a lifetime
Savanna Flakes EducationTo all the new teachers starting this school year, we are so glad you are joining our team. You are entering one of the most important and rewarding careers out there.
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Privacy tips to help teachers avoid a social media scandal
Jessica Taylor EducationThanks to social media, privacy is gone in the education world. Scandals and complaints involving teachers who misuse social media have been occurring more frequently around the U.S., which has led school districts scrambling to create new guidelines.
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Cultural competence in the classroom: A key 21st-century skill
Erick Herrmann EducationSchools today are becoming increasingly diverse. Any educator who has been working in schools for a long time has likely seen the differences between students who were in their classrooms 20 years ago and students who are in their classrooms today.
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