Perhaps you are a manager who would like to support your staff as they broaden their professional knowledge. Perhaps you are developing asynchronous or course-embedded content for students or faculty to use. Perhaps you are collecting training material for peer helpers you supervise, or perhaps you are seeking a resource on a particular topic to share with a student you’re helping. We hope you find what you need in the sections below!
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Culturally responsive pedagogy has shown great promise in meeting this need, but many educators still struggle with its implementation. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction.
Teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform, educational technology — if it has something to do with teaching, we’re talking about it. On the podcast, Gonzalez interviews educators, students, administrators and parents about the psychological and social dynamics of school, trade secrets, and other juicy things you’ll never learn in a textbook.
This resource provides examples of cultural dissonance in which a miscommunication or sense of discomfort occurs but is not addressed. They are perfect scenarios for critical discussion. A facilitation guide is provided.
The guide provides excellent strategies for educators to support spoken language skills development in students with EAL.
This handout visualizes the contiuum of institutions, from exclusionary institutions towards becoming a transformative anti-oppressive organization.
This paper discusses the results of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) administered to college students in order to identify similarities and differences between time of diagnosis of a learning disability and the development of learning strategies related to will, self-regulation, and skill components.
Cold turkey is a software that you can download on your laptop/pc that blocks websites to eliminate distractions.
Cognitive load theory uses evolutionary theory to consider human cognitive architecture and uses that architecture to devise novel, instructional procedures.
Helps keep you organized with different goals, lists, and tasks for school and work.
This website helps you make references and citations for different styles like APA format. Myself and a lot of students use this resource when citing.
Using the theoretical framework of language socialization, this paper investigates the local contexts in which four international students were initiated into citation during their first semester in a Masters in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MA-TESOL) program.
Author: Marilee Adams “Marilee Adams describes how questions shape our thinking and how personal and organizational problems can often be traced to the kinds of questions we ask. Drawing on decades of research and experience as a coach and consultant, Adams uses a highly instructive and entertaining story that illustrates how to quickly recognize any […]
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