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Maria Lee is a former English Language Learning teacher who taught for 19 years. She pursued her interest in Writing Blog when she retired in 2019. Maria has created and managed educationblogdesk.com to help educators improve student learning by using the teacher clarity process. Her goal is to Help, Inspire, and Teach.
Education Blog Desk
15h ago
PBL Project Design Focus When designing a PBL Project, your focus is to teach students academic content area knowledge and skills drawn from district or state standards. Your project also focuses on building students’ ability to think critically, solve problems, collaborate, and communicate (3Cs), which are the 21st Century skills students need to prepare for ..read more
Education Blog Desk
1w ago
Scope First PBL Project needs to be modest in scope to achieve the best result. Andrew Miller stresses that if you are just getting started with Project Based Learning, “Don’t Go Crazy”. Miller’s article “Getting Started with Project-Based Learning (Hint: Don’t Go Crazy)” suggests a few things to consider if you are just started with ..read more
Education Blog Desk
1w ago
What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious bias is also called implicit bias—a type of social cognition that occurs below the surface, making it harder to detect as defined by Huda Essa, author of the book The Consciously Unbiased Educator. Essa cites social scientists who believe unconscious bias can develop as early as age 3 (Flannery, 2015 ..read more
Education Blog Desk
1w ago
Self-Efficacy with Student Agency Agency is a composite set of essential skills researchers refer to, as self-efficacy, planning, and acting, reflecting on learning, and having a growth mindset are important to long-term student success. This is explained in the book, Teaching Kids to Thrive, by Dr. Debbie Thomas Silver and Debra Stafford. Dr. Silver and ..read more
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1M ago
3 Ways Building Mistake Tolerance Carl Slater, author of Nurturing Mistake Tolerance in the Classroom article, suggests 3 ..read more
Education Blog Desk
1M ago
What is SCRUM? Why I Scrum: Using a Project Management Tool for PBL SCRUM tools support Scrum ceremonies ..read more
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2M ago
Explore Project Idea To explore a project idea, you need to develop an idea by looking at places ..read more
Education Blog Desk
2M ago
Seeking Rigor In PBL What is Rigorous Project Based Learning? Robert Marzano presents a way to design projects ..read more
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3M ago
Self-Efficacy with Student Agency Agency is a composite set of essential skills researchers refer to, as self-efficacy, planning ..read more
Education Blog Desk
3M ago
How Does Project Based Learning Work? Planning Steps of PBL Three planning steps of PBL are Step 1: Plan with the End in Mind, Step 2: Plan the Assessments, and Step 3: Plan the Teaching and Learning. These three planning steps are according to Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy, authors of the book Project Based ..read more