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by MiddleWeb · Published 09/25/2022 · Last modified 07/31/2023
As disinformation proliferates, schools need a better solution than perfunctory media literacy education, say these digital citizenship advocates. When students achieve full โmedia fluency,โ they will not only understand disinformation exists but have the tools to outflank it, write McCusker, Irvan and Driscoll.
In The Power of Teaching Vulnerably David Rockower explains how personal, relational, and dialogic vulnerability can help educators build healthy classroom dialogue. Amy Estersohn would have liked more guidance for teachers facing job loss if they discuss sensitive topics.
Culturally Responsive Teaching in Gifted Education is an essay collection addressing a variety of populations and will benefit all students, says History and ELA teacher Megan Kelly. She highlights three, including โPromoting Racism: Through the Eyes of a Black Mother.โ
Many school problems are social at their core. When teachers and counselors give students a leadership role in normalizing the problems โ making them accessible and resolvable โ the community culture improves for everyone, says national counseling leader Jean Peterson.
Content Learning / The Unstoppable ML Teacher
by Tan Huynh · Published 09/18/2022 · Last modified 01/26/2023
Teaching academic content is less about receiving students who are ready to learn and more about creating conditions to support learning. Tan Huynh shares a geography lesson he designed to meet three conditions multilinguals need to learn content and language simultaneously.
Barry Gilmoreโs Plagiarism: A How-Not-To Guide for Students helps learners understand the motivation behind plagiarism and discusses ways to avoid it in both academic and employment settings. Eighth grade teacher Erin Corrigan-Smith also recommends the teacherโs edition.
When Stephanie Farley coaxes her students into a good frame of mind โ happy, relaxed, confident โ they learn more, just as positivity research predicts. Join her as she shares 10 joy-inducing methods โ including dogs โ and suggests ways to reach across content.
Literacy consultant Anne Anderson recommends fellow literacy teachers and coaches keep Dan Feigelsonโs Radical Listening near at hand. Implementing the bookโs detailed guidelines for active listening during reading and writing conferences will benefit all of your learners.
The first step to taking control of your time is making the effort, and educator Frank Buckโs โGet Organized Digitally!โ provides the rungs of the ladder to get you there. Department chair Stephanie Choate says Buck inserts educator success stories in just the right places. Highly recommended.
Consultants Ron Williamson and Barbara Blackburn counsel that dealing with change promptly, engaging actively in social media, and achieving work-life balance are central tasks that will help school leaders not only survive but also thrive as they run this year’s marathon.
