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If you’re homeschooling a teenager, or know someone who is, let me recommend Think Better, Write Better to help them improve their critical thinking and writing skills. Unlike most textbooks these days, it’s not political at all; in fact, it’s probably the least “woke”’writing textbook on the market. It just teaches classical writing and thinking skills in engaging, highly readable prose. As such, it’s perfect for homeschoolers, who are generally more inclined toward critical thinking to begin with. Unfortunately, as a textbook, it’s a little pricier than the typical paperback—although it’s not bad, as textbooks go, and the e-version is actually quite reasonable. In any case, I think it’s well worth the expense to help young people develop these vital and (in the public schools) often overlooked skills. Much of this isn’t even taught in college anymore, which will give your homeschooled student yet another leg up on the competition.

Blending classics with young adult books can open doors to engaging discussions, critical thinking, and a deeper appreciation for literature. 📚 https://hubs.ly/Q02vP13H0 #Education #StudentSuccess #TeacherTips

I spent much of lockdown writing a book called Mind Flip: How to Stop struggling at College and Get the Degree you Deserve. It’s an attempt to distil the lessons of my nearly twenty-five year experience of university teaching – the things I find myself explaining to students again and again. In this article I want to share with you the most common mistake I encounter in the essays I mark – and give you a sure-fire technique to avoid it. https://lnkd.in/e8E-MmGD with Homersphere. 

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This is not just a book 📙 It’s a teaching movement 💡 TeacherGoals.com/reading Malia Hollowell is a National Board Certified Teacher and Stanford University graduate who coaches half a million teachers around the world to implement the science of reading in their classrooms. You want teaching reading to be easy for you AND your students. The Science of Reading in Action is the state-of-the-art book on brain-friendly reading instruction in twenty-first century classrooms. #ScienceofReading

This is not just a book 📙 It’s a teaching movement 💡 TeacherGoals.com/reading Malia Hollowell is a National Board Certified Teacher and Stanford University graduate who coaches half a million teachers around the world to implement the science of reading in their classrooms. You want teaching reading to be easy for you AND your students. The Science of Reading in Action is the state-of-the-art book on brain-friendly reading instruction in twenty-first century classrooms. #ScienceofReading

Following the recent article by the Runnymede Trust highlighting the underrepresentation of books by writers of colour in the GCSE curriculum, I’m interested to hear from FE colleges: how many books by writers of colour are included in your college libraries? Is this issue a matter of awareness, or does it stem from limited access or resources? As I have created my own pilot project working with independent self published writers of colour to access books for education institutions I work with. #DiversityInEducation #LiteratureForAll #InclusiveCurriculum #FELeadership #RepresentationMatters #EqualityInEducation #RunnymedeTrust #CollegeLibraries #WritersOfColour

Spoon-Feeding or Critical Thinking? Which teaching method should we adopt in our classrooms today? The present book gives an answer to this question through the results of an experiment the writer conducted in her classrooms.