#Students

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

This past semester I taught two courses: an advanced (causal inference) methods course, and an outbreak investigation course.I’d like to share some thoughts on teaching during a pandemic. 1. The

Hugh Richards

HughJRichards

'GIVE IT A NAME' - a useful little idea to help students remember feedback. A short thread, with pictures!The idea: give the error a name and, ideally, a visual metaphor.

Bridget Stirling

bridgetstirling

Schools can be operated safely when resources are put into place to support safe schools. I'm deeply troubled that these assumptions are made without reference to the need to properly

DNLee

DNLee5

I’m chewing on some thoughts and feelings about ways white people, men & women, insert themselves and/or are sought out to become deflectors or enforcers in ways that create/deepen chasms

Joshua Bowman

Thalesdisciple

In my upper-level math classes, students read the textbook and discuss it in class. Learning mathematical ideas through reading is important, but it’s probably just as important to critique the

Venkat Bandari

VenkatBandari3

Here is my new thread on KG - PG free education scheme by #Telangana govt @KTRTRS @SabithaindraTRS Govt divided KG-PG scheme into 4 categories 1. mahatma jyotiba phule telangana backward

Shaily Patel

vox_magica

we burn them out, pay them nothing, treat them terribly, and make them teach impossible course loads, yes.but some of the most innovative, effective pedagogues i know are contingent faculty.

huck

HUCKmagazine

this is @bencsmoke, Huck’s contributing editor, here in parliament square where students are gathering to demonstrate against the controversial a level results that many received last thursday which saw 40%

Dr. Theresa Chapple

Theresa_Chapple

Pre-covid, my work was on maternal mortality, and 1 way to decrease MM rates is to listen to women. What I notice in #returntoschool debates are that we are not

Luca Dellanna

DellAnnaLuca

ON EDUCATION & DEFAULTSImagine if, to learn Spanish, people used to go live for one year in a Spanish-speaking country.Then, someone said, "Nah, let's have them sit for 4 years

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ Thread: 15th November Children and transmission, SAGE document to government.Seen some interesting takes on this in the media.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tfc-children-and-transmission-4-november-2020 SAGE have warned gover

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

New from me: Drawing on a survey of 20K+ students from 55 universities, @RealClearEd and @TheFIREorg have ranked schools according to how healthy the free speech climate is on campus.

Subashan

suba_shan

Since there’s (some) traction on my bg, let me tell you another side of the story. My mom’s a Tamil teacher in a secular high school with majority B40 Indian

Amy Curtis

RantyAmyCurtis

“Homeschooling is dangerous because it allows parents to keep their kids locked up at home, unsocialized!” “If you don’t keep your child at home, locked up and unsocialized, for a

Jaevion Nelson

jaevionn

If we look at the management of the pandemic in Jamaica and are being honest, we did fairly well compared to several countries--some with way more resources than us. There

Kassandra Ford

kassthefish

I've seen a few tweets about it, so let's do a thread on Grad School & funding.If you're interested in grad school (esp. bio), funding will be one of your

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