Months after the 2016 presidential election, a majority of educators say that national politics have created a sharp divide among students, leaving teachers grappling with how to handle
classroom conversations about controversial issues.
A high school teacher shares advice on guiding
classroom conversations about controversial issues
Meyer, who has a personal interest in graphic design and filmmaking, started looking for high - interest visuals that would promote
classroom conversation about related math concepts.
Not exact matches
The school is already weighing in on important
conversations about education, like whether multigrade
classrooms enhance learning.
That means talking
about androcentrism, patriarchy, sexism and misogyny in the scriptures and in the church from the pulpit, in the theological
classroom, in congregational
conversations, in public theology and the scholarly literature.
One sure sign that this has begun to happen will be a shift in informal out - of -
classroom conversations from talk
about course work, or even from talk
about people in the school, to talk
about the school itself.
Teachers are overworked like everyone else, but as one teacher at Emerson Elementary pointed out that breakfast - in - the -
classroom time can be valuable — learning how to do hygiene, table manners, using breakfast time to talk
about how to eat properly, how to carry on a
conversation while eating, even something as simple as handwashing!
Comments by participants in other cycles of this course: «When I put the principles taught in the TSS course into action in the
classroom, I found the students enthralled by both the experiments and the
conversations about them.
«There is no better way to build community in the
classroom —
about table manners,
about good
conversation, and
about sharing and caring with one another.»
These questions are meant to help start the
conversation about current activities that are happening within the school /
classroom in health HLPS aspect and CSH pillar.
«Another boy then asked why they were going around collecting trash, and this gave us an opportunity for an organic
conversation about our
classroom community, responsibility, and accountability.
I'm angry that I have to have
conversations with my children
about what to do should they find themselves locked in a
classroom while a madman with a gun is walking the hallways of their school, trying to kill them and their friends.
A tweet sent by Trump in 2016 in which he denied wanting guns «brought into the school
classroom» has resurfaced after a White House
conversation about arming teachers as a way of stopping school shootings.
Conversations about blackness and race do not have to be limited to the month of February, or to elementary
classrooms.
The result is what Hartley calls «a visual
conversation»
about those ephemeral displays that come and go from
classroom walls and school hallways.
Education Post's mission is to «elevate the voices of families and teachers» and «connect them to honest,
classroom - focused
conversations about our schools.»
Embedding new words into
classroom conversations and assignments pegged to topics teens care
about
So often we view science
classrooms as removed from
conversations about identity, humanity, and equity but all of those things influence who we are as scientists.»
In a review of his book Teach Like a Champion for Education Next, I noted Lemov's approach promised to change the
conversation about classroom practice from «teacher quality» to «quality teaching.»
To that end, our keynote address, presented by Caroline Hill, who leads school creation and transformation at CityBridge Education and is founder of the DC Equity Lab, and Michelle Molitor, founder and CEO of Fellowship for Race & Equity in Education (FREE), focused on how we might reframe the
conversation about personalized learning to bring equity to the forefront of school and
classroom redesign.
The new evaluation systems have forced principals to prioritize
classrooms over cafeterias and custodians (and have exposed how poorly prepared many principals are to be instructional leaders) and they have sparked
conversations about effective teaching that often simply didn't happen in the past in many schools — developments that teachers say makes their work more appealing.
We post an article with a few questions to support a deeper
conversation about what works in the
classroom.
And being able to have authentic
conversations with students
about the hardships of writing creates a more supportive writing culture in the
classroom.
Plenty of schools adapt to new requirements, more and more educators make use of edtech in their
classrooms, and the needs of the 21st Century learner is something that almost every
conversation about education gravitates towards.
Developmental psychologist Richard Weissbourd, the co-director of Making Caring Common and a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, offers advice on setting the kind of
classroom norms that can create a respectful environment for rich
conversations about even the most challenging topics.
Bermudez believes that this research could provide teachers more ways of engaging students in productive
conversations about controversial issues without reaching a wall because a
classroom conversation can't move forward.
Now we need to move to a new
conversation about implementation: If I'm a teacher, how do I make these standards real in my
classroom?
How to plan for an authentic, inclusive
conversation about race in
classrooms where white students outnumber students of color.
Sometimes the broadcasting teacher will come into the social studies
classroom to help students think
about framing
conversations and questions for a radio audience.
The mass purchase of devices for schools is happening way too often without
conversations with educators
about what learning should be happening in the
classroom.
So far REMIX has presented the film OT: Our Town, which documented a Compton, California high school's production of the American stage classic, Our Town; and has hosted a
conversation about hip - hop in education, and the ways it can be used as a tool in
classrooms to address issues of literacy, race, and social justice.
Brown's story, Kim says, is vital to the curriculum and initiating
conversations about loss but also activities community service to extend the social - emotional learning outside of the school /
classroom setting as well.
My students would have rich
conversations about the novel well into the night, creating one unified class beyond the four walls of the
classroom.
All teachers are experts, so when you enter into
conversation with another teacher
about PBL, make a specific effort to learn something
about how this teacher runs his or her
classroom.
Use this resource to start
conversations about democracy in your
classroom and to challenge your students to be active participants.
Engaging others in the process will increase the frequency and breadth of feedback
conversations, reduce the inefficiencies of relying on a single observer, and create opportunities for more frequent, formative
conversations about classroom practice.
And their
classroom, filled with the hum of drills and dryers, drifting clouds of plaster, and low
conversations about spilling intestines and blue fur, has the look and feel of a special effects studio.
Again and again, Dalmas and Beck steer the
conversation about classroom technology back to two broader topics: lack of resources and problems in the community they serve.
If we have
conversations at scale
about what our biases do to black and brown children and how these biases show up in our
classrooms, then we will have students who believe they have a right to be something.
«Through visual transparency — by looking through a window into something interesting happening in a makerspace, robotic lab, or a
classroom — you're creating a public
conversation about teaching and learning,» says Stephen.
Without having opportunities to engage in
conversation about what makes a
classroom effective, how such
classrooms need to operate to be effective, and how they can contribute to that, it's likely that many students would feel uncomfortable because of uncertainty
about how things work.
It's vital we have
conversations with our students
about the inequities in our society and empower students to take their voices beyond the
classroom walls — particularly for those of us who work in schools located in communities of color.
A principal should have in - depth
conversations on a regular basis with their teachers
about the happenings in their
classroom.
When they debate
about mathematics, they employ higher level thinking and move into reasoning, so math
conversations must be a regular occurrence in the
classroom.
«So I've noticed a lot more intensive
conversations about classroom teachers.
Through examining what should be experienced by young women in the
classroom this course aims to start a
conversation between teachers
about how to best help girls succeed in the
classroom and beyond, as well as offering authoritative advice, guidance and practical solutions.
This case is designed to help teachers, school and district leaders, parents, teacher educators, and middle and high school students have nuanced
conversations about the challenges posed by divisive political rhetoric for school
classrooms and communities.
Almost every presentation or speech or
conversation about educational reform inevitably includes some reference to the amount of support and training teachers and administrators will need in order to make key reforms real and effective in
classrooms.
Unless a teacher has already established a trusting, safe
classroom culture, productive
conversations about sensitive and emotional topics just aren't possible.
Operation Prevention's mission is to educate students
about the true impacts of opioids and kick - start lifesaving
conversations in the home and
classroom.