#Teaching

You need to be careful when marinading your students in neo-marxist ideology -- too little salt, and they will be flavourless, but too much salt and the meat will be
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A friend with kid interested in "animation" asked me where to start. The kid learned Scratch programming + interactive so far. First suggestion is to recommend iPad + Apple Pencil
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The @nytimes piece on faculty reluctance to return to campus is misleading and magnifies an already existing problem in the conversation. 1/x What is being offered by universities seeking to
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Coaches, I think its time we move away from just teaching skills, technique, and game play, and give more of an honest effort to teaching the mental training required to
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A4: Kids bring their knowledge of the world into the classroom. They will do and say racist things because they live in a society built within systemic racism. If we
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White folks, men, and cisgender people, the next several days are a prime opportunity to get your folks together. You want to claim the title “ally” you have to act.
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For my non-Mormon peeps, Korihor is the name of a man in the Book of Mormon who gets deceived by the Devil into spreading false doctrine to the Nephites, and
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If the OSSTF tentative agreement hurts students, I will be voting no. Point final. Increased class sizes hurt students. and 23:1 is, once again, an AVERAGE. In order for programs
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As we approach the start of University Term (formally Oxford Michaelmas Term starts on 11th October but many students will be arriving 1 to 3 weeks before then) it’s time
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This is the perfect time to redesign the school system not it’s for social distancing but also what school is and what and how our children are learning. Teachers should
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A thread on handwriting fluency (automaticity and pace)With a steadily rising recognition (in the UK, specifally) of how vital reading fluency is in the reading comprehension process, I wonder if
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People in this country can live their whole lives only interacting with people of their own racial background because most of it is physically segregated. How can we fight racism
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THREAD: People often ask why it’s important for educators to build their own instructional videos. Most people think that the easier and more effective solution is to just use professionally
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Hi friends, I’d like to show you/convince you to purchase some original watercolor illustrations I made for mine and Leila’s book (coming ‘21) on women in the history of science.
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Last week I did a thread on student mental health during COVID. Now, its time to do faculty mental health. I suspect that the experiences of faculty are quite diverse.
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So list of things that happened in Thomas Harris's Hannibal that makes me crack up about an anti saying we are ruining Thomas Harris works: A thread (please read carefully
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