25 Rules for Successful Research Professors
As a contented and productive senior professor at a major research university, colleagues and students often ask me for advice.
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Education
Education, discipline that is concerned with methods of teaching and learning in schools or school-like environments as opposed to various nonformal and informal means of socialization (e.g., rural development projects and education through parent-child relationships).
Guiding Students to Harness Mistakes for Learning
With practice and an eventual shift in mindset, students can understand that mistakes are fundamental to how we learn. As
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8 Ways to Create a Supportive Work Environment for Teachers
Improving teachers’ work-related mental health requires a commitment to transforming their workplace culture. How can school leaders create an environment
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Using Learning Progressions to Build Student Confidence
Scaffolding assignments provides clear checkpoints for students, allowing them to feel successful at acquiring new skills. If you’ve never felt
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Using Classroom Technology Less so Students Interact More
Building new pedagogical habits can help teachers move away from screens and toward other ways of teaching and learning. Many
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20 kids. One hour. 190 phone notifications. What one Ontario math teacher’s experiment found
The experiment, which was done at the end of March, came a month before the provincial government announced a ban
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We must be proactive in guiding the influence of artificial intelligence on education
The topic of AI has already grown trite, but don’t let that fool you. It’s not a fad. It feels
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B.C. struggles toward province-wide policy on phone use in schools
At Shawnigan Lake School, a prestigious boarding school on Vancouver Island, students from Grades 8 to 11 are required to
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Vague school rules at the root of millions of student suspensions
Arhode Island student smashed a ketchup packet with his fist, splattering an administrator. Another ripped up his schoolwork. The district
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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?
When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first
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