Education Week - November 6, 2024 - 16

WEBINAR
Scaling Tutoring Through Federal
Work Study Partnerships
Educators have long recognized tutoring as a proven method
for helping students accelerate learning. The real challenge is doing it at scale
while ensuring teachers aren't overburdened and providing support to help
guardians connect their children with tutors.
One way to scale tutoring is to use existing programs, such as Federal
Work-Study (FWS). In May 2023, the U.S. Department of Education issued a call
to action urging colleges, universities and school districts to work together to use
FWS to increase the number of college students supporting school-age children
as tutors.
In this webinar, education leaders will share their experiences leveraging FWS
for high-impact tutoring. You'll learn about the program's eligibility
requirements, strategies for collaboration with local higher education
institutions, and how to integrate FWS tutors into your existing academic
support structures.
edw.link/ScalingTutoring
WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 20
2-3 PM ET
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itly foster those skills, said Monica Brennan, a K-5
instructional coach at Hillside Elementary School
in the Farmington district in Michigan.
As a former 2nd grade teacher, and in her current
role, Brennan has used a few different curricula that
attempt this goal.
In one, social studies lessons included a lot of
reading and writing prompts. In another, students
explored the same topic across disciplines in an
interdisciplinary unit-learning about rice, for
example, by exploring what the food means to different
cultures and investigating how seeds grow.
In the reading curriculum she works with now,
some lessons are centered on social studies topics.
She helps teachers draw connections between those
topics and the content in their social studies periods.
" I think there's not one way to do it. But what I've
started to learn as an educator is that we want some
fluidity in our classrooms, " Brennan said, referencing
the delineation between social studies and ELA.
" That's part of my role, helping teachers to see that
it's OK for there to be blurry lines there. "
Before elementary schoolers can get to more
discipline-specific ways of reading and writing, they
need to master the basics, she said.
In one civics lesson that Brennan taught, students
wrote to their local government about improving
equipment at a local park. Lessons on persuasive
writing had to precede that activity.
" I'm giving a really clear framework of what it is-
WEBINAR
Empowering Students Using
Computational Thinking Skills
Boost student engagement through the core concepts of
computational thinking: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and
algorithmic thinking.
In this session, you'll learn how to integrate these skills into your teaching, making
complex concepts more accessible and engaging for students. Our presenters will
share examples of activities as well as strategies to create your own to encourage
students to break down problems, identify patterns, develop algorithms, and think
like computer scientists, even without coding.
Take the next step to fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity in
your classroom and continue transforming the way your students approach learning.
Don't miss this opportunity to empower your students with the skills they need for
the future!
you give an argument, you elaborate on it, " Brennan
said. " There are still some ELA activities that need
to take place in order for that social studies lesson to
be successful. "
By the time students get to high school, they're
learning and refining discipline-specific ways of
evaluating text and persuading audiences.
When Ziegler, the California teacher, has taught
U.S. history, she asked students to analyze a painting
that claims to depict the first Thanksgiving.
" Initially, students look at that and say, 'Wow, ... it
must be like this, and they're all happy,' " Ziegler said.
But she guides students to investigate further questions-when
was this painting created? By whom?-
that uncover that it was painted in the 1930s, hundreds
of years after the event supposedly took place.
The lesson she uses prompts students to consider
how an author's time and place, and their motivation,
might influence the source they create.
Ziegler wants her students to pose those questions
TUESDAY
DECEMBER 10
2-3 PM ET
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to the information sources in their own lives, too,
whether they're learning about local ballot initiatives,
seeking tips on filling out student financial-aid
forms, or trying to understand headlines about
unemployment numbers.
" I hope that we're giving them the skills to say, 'OK,
I'm going to get the facts and I'm going to sit down with
people and discuss this and not just see what I get online
but really make an informed decision,' " she said.
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