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Kindred K-12 helps get inquiry-based learning into middle and high school social studies classrooms, allowing students to explore different perspectives, build critical thinking skills, and develop their own understanding of history. A new report from the American Historical Association (AHA) confirms that history teachers share these priorities, as reported in Education Week: "teachers overwhelmingly say they aim to develop students’ historical thinking skills—teaching them how to think, not what to think—and value presenting multiple sides of every story." Follow Kindred K-12 to stay informed about secondary history education in the United States. For those who wish to learn more, EdWeek’s reporting on the AHA report is linked below: https://lnkd.in/eunYVp-2

International Teacher Magazine article of the week Erika Elkady laments the narrowness of modern education, but sees potential in an ancient ideal - character education. Old fashioned - or the answer to a real need? Find out more about the work of The Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham and its relevance to #internationalschools.

This exert from an education article from Education Week gives some good insight on what is expected from educators in the History Field. The most well-known of these might be the C3 Framework, developed by the National Council for the Social Studies with a coalition of teachers, academics, and professional organizations in 2013. The framework doesn’t list names and dates; instead, it was designed as a conceptual guide for states to use as they developed standards in geography, civics, economics, and history. It focuses on four skill-based dimensions: Developing questions and planning inquiries; Applying disciplinary concepts and tools; Evaluating sources and using evidence; And communicating conclusions and taking informed action. As I work in the history education department, I've noticed how each is important to use. Get students to ask questions on their own and work to do the best they can on their own. Develop a work ethic to always approach history in a professional lense and to see it as such. Analyze evidence by looking into the nuaces of each source. Then we will use it to come to a conclusion, supporting it with our evidence. All of this is important to learn in history, and I'm glad to learn and think about it. https://lnkd.in/gwqhjEn5

From the archives... Given the state of “higher” education and its propensity to drive conservative and/or Christian young adults away from traditional family values or faith tradition, I must advise home educating families to seriously consider if post-secondary education is even necessary. I encourage each student, in collaboration with their parents and other spiritual counselors, to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit in determine what God’s purpose is for their life, and if university studies are not an absolute necessity, avoid them altogether. If such studies are required, I pray that they would seek institutions that do not undermine the faith foundations laid by the family, even if that means attending less “prestigious” schools. To safeguard these students’ souls, and perhaps those of the next generations, is worth that sacrifice. #HomeEducation #homeschool #homeschooling #education #GetOutNow #PublicSchoolExit #ChristianEducation #EdcuationIsDiscipleship #ChristianHomeschoolRevolution https://lnkd.in/gNj8eb6X

Final Grades — The Worst Part of Being a Professor Education is good, bad, and ugly; this is the ugly part Douglas Giles PhD #dEDUD #education #EDtech #educación #professor #philosophy #pedagogy #pedagogía https://lnkd.in/eKBbn7RP

Creating supportive school environments can transform students' lives. Learn about the impact on social, emotional, and academic development. from: https://lnkd.in/e_SXEJY6

This week on Conscious Pathways I'm joined by Dr. Denise Kennedy, PhD, Professor and Department Chair of Early Childhood Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In this conversation, Dr. Kennedy highlights the critical importance of play-based inquiry in early childhood education. She emphasizes how traditional education systems often focus on teaching to the test, which limits children's ability to problem-solve and think critically. Dr. Kennedy illustrates this with a powerful example: if we hand a child a toy and tell them exactly how to use it, they’ll follow instructions and move on. However, if we give them the toy with open-ended curiosity, they’ll explore and discover far more, enhancing their learning experience through play and inquiry-based learning. 🎧 Listen now: https://lnkd.in/gqav94yW b677a0d6-4c19-45bb-9c02-8e38fe5bde69/ep/5e029632-26e8-491e-8a77-214ca5cc98ac Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gb-yxSQY Let's discuss! How can we incorporate more play-based inquiry into our education systems? Share your thoughts in the comments below! ⬇️💬 #EarlyChildhoodEducation #PlayBasedLearning #CriticalThinking #ProblemSolving #InquiryBasedLearning #ChildDevelopment #EducationSystem #STEM #Literacy #TeacherPreparationPrograms #PedagogicalSkills.#PlayBasedInquiry #FosteringCreativity #CriticalThinkingSkills #ActiveLearning #InquiryBasedLearning #EducationForTheFuture #ProblemSolvingSkills #EmpoweringChildren #BeyondMemorization #UnlockingPotential

I am constantly embarrassed by education as a discipline. If the limit of your possible understanding is that Dewey was always-already correct, you are blinding yourself to better foundations. What other field slavishly defends the relevance of a century-old, part-time theorist? Embarrassing... One has to click on the link first and then turn Hypothes.is on: https://lnkd.in/ghHbv6xs

Sadly, spot on for too many high schools and universities anymore: I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. ***The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.*** This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. ***Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic -- it has no conscience.*** It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor. ~John Taylor Gatto (Book: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling [ad] https://amzn.to/3xDlkVt)

There is a cultural and racial gap most readily spoken about in college and university classes. The opportunity to openly share is what higher education should be about https://lnkd.in/gS2m2smB