Students explore a variety of resources as they learn about the Holocaust. Working collaboratively, they investigate the materials, prepare oral responses, and produce a topic-based newspaper to complete their research.

"Human capital" may not be the first thing that comes to mind when we think about investments, but investing in education and training is an important economic decision. Learn about human capital and the return on such an investment in the February 2013 issue.

In this simplistic, introductory lesson in Life Science, students will converse with peers to prepare a list of seven common characteristics in organisms after determining if pictured items are living or nonliving. Students will use background knowledge and pictures to identify patterns that represent all living organisms. After watching a short video, students will separate living and nonliving things by coloring or drawing an outdoor environment. Students will answer this question: Is George Washington Living, Nonliving, or Dead? as an Exit Ticket. This lesson results from collaboration between the Alabama State Department of Education and ASTA.

Trade issues occasionally dominate and are a continuing theme of the international scene: the global market, sweatshops, child labor, trade deficits, the euro, sanctions, tariffs, embargoes, and the EU, NAFTA, WTO, the seemingly endless alphabet of interest groups, treaties, organizations, and trade agreements. As a classroom topic, international trade has the great advantage of providing ready-made material for teachers wanting to engage student interest in current events. On the other hand, the complexity of the issues surrounding trade is daunting. While economic reasoning doesn't guarantee resolution of the issues, it is a powerful tool of critical thinking that brings clarity to the discussion of current events. The ability to determine comparative advantage through opportunity cost, the ability to identify incentives and predict resulting behavior, and the ability to use supply and demand analysis of particular labor and resource markets, help students to set aside the emotion of international trade issues and cut through the rhetoric of media reports.

The teacher to organise the physical environment to support the needs of the syllabus and the ICT tools. Specific Objectives: On completion of this unit you will be able to: 1] Identify the pros and cons of using computer labs, 2] Use ICT effectively in a classroom setting, and 3] Use ICT in a community setting.

KICTCFT: The teacher to develop and apply knowledge of rubrics in assessing the syllabus. Specific Objectives: By the end of this unit you should be able to 1] Create rubrics and 2] Use rubrics in assessing the syllabus.

This curriculum was developed as an empirical foundation for a practice model that facilitates collaboration toward providing the highest level of service for at-risk children and their families. It teaches collaboration in nine areas: legal issues, financial issues, health and mental health, education/school, family relationships, child management, support services, fair and equal treatment, and general satisfaction. It is organized around five competency areas: respecting the knowledge, skills, and experiences of others; building trust by meeting needs; facilitating communication; creating an atmosphere in which cultural tradition, values, and diversity are respected; and using negotiation skills. The curriculum is divided into five sections: Introduction to the Curriculum, Conducting the Training, Training Modules (two 3-hour modules for in-service training), Classroom Modules (for undergraduates and graduates), References and Annotated Bibliography. (345 pages)Pasztor, E. M., Goodman, C. C., Potts, M., Santana, M. I., & Runnels, R. A. (2002).

The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) provides a curriculum alignment system that helps teachers deliver standards-driven assignments in which students write in response to reading in discipline-specific ways supported by backwards-designed instruction.

LDC tools and learning experiences help teachers and schools meet the challenges of: (1) increasing the rigor of assignments, lessons, and units by becoming truly standards-driven, (2) increasing teachers' knowledge and expertise around instructional planning, and (3) radically changing the expectations schools and teachers have for their students' ability to read and write with depth and breadth—in other words, to be truly college and career ready.

The LDC CoreTools platform includes: (1) a free Curriculum Library that includes nationally-validated tasks and instructional plans that can be modified to meet any teacher's needs; (2) template-driven task and instructional plan editing tools that can be used collaboratively; (3) student-work rubrics and a curriculum-alignment rubric; (4) free professional learning experiences; (5) premium professional learning experiences, resources, and analytics.

This website guides teachers through establishing a routine for running centers or stations in their World Language classrooms. This includes an overview of different centers models, how to select student groups, how to select activities for centers, how to organize procedures, as well as links to resources.

Learning Framework: Effective Strategies for College SuccessChapter 2: Set Yourself Up for Success

LEARNING OBJECTIVESBy the end of this chapter, you will be able to:Define what success means to you.Describe the qualities of a successful college student.Compare and contrast a Growth Mindset vs. a Fixed Mindset.Understand the concept of Self-Efficacy and how to apply it to your college success.Identify campus resources to support your success.Understand the principles of academic integrity.

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Focuses on brain-based learning strategies that develop self-regulatory learning: discovering self-motivation; gaining self-awareness; developing emotional intelligence; employing interdependence; accepting personal responsibility; applying active listening; reading and note-taking; monitoring performance; and developing a growth mindset that believes in self. Students will combine theory and practice to become successful learners and successful college students.

Lesson 1: Successful Learning Strategies, Mindsets, & Basic Brain Facts (Plasticity)
Lesson 2: Motivation, Locus of Control, and Goal Setting
Lesson 3: Self-Regulated Learning and Student Engagement
Lesson 4: Use of Time
Lesson 5: Critical Thinking, Metacognition, and Bloom’s Taxonomy
Lesson 6: Active Listening and Note-Taking from Lectures
Lesson 7: Reading to Learn
Lesson 8: Preparing for and Taking Tests
Lesson 9: Memory and Information Processing Theory
Lesson 10: The Amazing Brain
Lesson 11: Learning Theories
Lesson 12: A Healthy Mindful Brain
Lesson 13: Managing Stress, Self-Talk, and Emotional Intelligence

Students will use the Lunar Language Graphic Organizer to draw and describe the phases of the moon.

Spark the engagement of English-language learners or reluctant readers with the graphic novel "Maus". The visual information provided by the genre serves as a support for reading and critical engagement.

In order to teach, you need to have good classroom management. How will you deal with routines, transitions, and rules? What will make you an effective teacher? This is geared toward Early Childhood Education, but it can be adapted for secondary. 

The Media Center: The Teachers’ Support SystemA Qualified Teacher-Librarian Every member of our school staff is well-qualified and properly credentialed. (Whole Child Tenet #4: Supported)Flexible Schedule Achievement is higher in schools where the library operates on a flexible schedule instead of a fixed rotation. (Library Media Programs and Student Achievement)A Diverse Collection of Up-to-date Books/Electronic Resources Getting the books off the shelves and into the hands of students (Teacher Librarians at the Heart of Student Learning-video); Teachers create and engage their students in literacy practices that develop awareness, understanding, respect, and valuing of differences in our society. (Standard 4: Diversity)Teacher Collaboration When library media specialists exhibit leadership in the school, it increases collaboration with other teachers. (Library Media Programs and Student Achievement)Assessment Assistance The Media Specialist can assist teachers with assessment by focusing on how students are assessed, focusing on the whole child, and having a well-rounded Media Center program. Teachers can develop their own checklists by identifying skills that are directly aligned to standards. (Assessment Toolkit)Literacy Center Reading and writing play a crucial role in the ability to “learn for understanding.” (Supporting Adolescent Literacy Across the Content Areas); students should have an opportunity to be able to write something meaningful to them, and to have a place where they can listen and learn through sharing ideas with other students.Introduction to Open Educational Resources or OER These are resources that are created to be used free of charge in a variety of subject areas, including youtube videos, websites, and even textbooks--all, AT NO COST!Examples  www.khanacademy.org, www.curriculumpathways.com.  Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC 3.0 US) 

A complete curriculum for introductory Russian organized around the experiences of four American students spending an academic year in the Russian Federation. Web-based textbook and paper-based classroom activities and homework (available as downloadable pdf and print-on-demand). Teacher materials also available on request. Winner of the 2016 Access to Language Education Award from the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium and the 2017 Best Book in Pedgogy from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.

Reviews
Russian Language Journal 67 (2017): 77-80.
Slavic and East European Journal 61.4 (Winter 2017): 938-940.
Language Learning and Technology 21.1 (February 2017): 46-51.
Canadian Slavonic Papers 58.4 (2016): 448-449.

Students learn about the remote sensing radio occultation technique and how engineers use it with GPS satellites to monitor and study the Earth's atmospheric activity. Students may be familiar with some everyday uses of GPS, but not as familiar with how GPS technology contributes to our ongoing need for great amounts of ever-changing global atmospheric data for accurate weather forecasting, storm tracking and climate change monitoring. GPS occultations are when GPS signals sent from one satellite to another are altered (delayed, refracted) by the atmosphere passed though, such that they can be analyzed to remotely learn about the planet's atmospheric conditions.