Sharing Learning Resources Strengthens Teaching Practice
ISKME’s “Teachers Advancing Common Core Learning” project builds networks of teacher collaborators around OER authoring and sharing
School Librarians: Selecting the Best Anchor Text for STEM Learning
An anchor text is the central text around which a lesson or unit is built. This may be, for example, a narrative piece, a data set, or an image. Students across disciplines engage with this anchor text throughout a lesson or unit, using it as base upon which to build skills and knowledge.
Four Criteria Offered by Subject Expert Joanna Schimizzi
The Well-Rounded Lesson: History and Common Core Math Come Together As Teachers, and Students, Collaborate
Try this teacher-created lesson on OER Commons: “Cross Curricular Approach to the Child Labor Practices of the 1800s and 1900s Industrial Revolution”
Unburden Your Emotional Backpack
Unpacking emotions to nurture student success
As my colleague Shenandoah Weiss outlined in her last post, Lessons for Learning, managing fear, cultivating trust, and encouraging creativity are all essential building blocks for productive, holistic learning.
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A Recent DEI Survey Reveals Sharing and Collaboration Needs
The Institute for Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) recently conducted a survey to look see how Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) projects want to share and collaborate. Specifically, the survey asked participants to reflect on how their DEI communities integrate resources, tools and collaborative opportunities available to them on CompletionMatters.org, and how we at ISKME might best support the college completion agendas of our member organizations.
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