A point spread is a bet on the margin of victory in a sporting event. It’s the most popular bet type in basketball and football.
The perceived stronger team (the favorite) must win by a certain number of points/runs/goals to cash your bet. The worse team (the underdog) can lose by fewer than that same amount of points, or just win the game.
Let’s use a 2022 NFL Week 1 game as an example.
The Ravens are a -7 favorite against the Jets. That makes New York a +7 underdog.Ravens win by 8+ points: Ravens bettors win
Ravens win…
One of the major concerns of every parent today is getting their child to do assignments on time and effectively. So when it comes to homework, it’s always a difficult part for parents to handle the fuss around it. However, parents involved in their children’s homework are more likely to see them succeed in school.
Kids’ homework plays an important role in their education. By doing chores, they gain responsibility and learn assignments. You can contribute to your kid’s study and organizational skills by helping them with assignments, explaining how to solve complex problems, and teaching them hacks for homework.…
What Does Prompt-Based Learning Mean?
Prompt-based learning is a strategy that machine learning engineers can use to train large language models (LLMs) so that the same model can be used for different tasks without re-training.
Traditional strategies for training large language models such as GPT-3 and BERT require the model to be pre-trained with unlabeled data and then fine-tuned for specific tasks with labeled data. In contrast, prompt-based learning models can autonomously tune themselves for different tasks by transferring domain knowledge introduced through prompts.
The quality of the output generated by a prompt-based model is highly dependent on the quality…
The most important question educators ask when we design curriculum is, What is it we want students to learn? If we don’t know the purpose and goals of our work, how can we evaluate students or respond if some of them are not learning?
This process of identifying the purpose of the first lesson is what educators call backwards design. In my 26 years of teaching, whenever our content team struggled to write assessments or respond to struggling students, it was because we did not agree on the specific goal of the lesson. For example, the goal of a US…
What can educators do to improve student learning? Here is where Culturally Responsive Teaching comes into play.
Culturally Responsive Teaching is also called Culturally Relevant Teaching. Nowadays, educators aim to implement Culturally Responsive Teaching rather than Traditional Teaching Methods.
Essentially, the main purpose of implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching strategies in ESL classrooms is to create an inclusive, safe, and immersive educational environment.
The Importance of Culturally Responsive Teaching
There are so many different approaches to teaching. To name a few, we have student-centred, self-paced, teacher-centred, and many more.
However, for Culturally Responsive Teaching, educators revise their instruction to help diverse…
This article was originally produced by the NH Business Review. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative. The piece below has been lightly edited.
New Hampshire Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut, who along with Gov. Chris Sununu is a named defendant in the case, took the witness stand in Rockingham County Superior Court Tuesday to open the second week of the trial pitting the ConVal School District and 10 other districts against the state.
In the suit, ConVal charges the state has failed to meet its obligation to provide and fund a constitutionally adequate education for…
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., shared a tense exchange with Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on Tuesday after Cardona repeatedly refused to define “woman” or definitively explain the extent of “equal access” for transgender students under the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules .
Cardona appeared before the House Appropriations Committee to defend his proposed change to Title IX that would make it illegal for schools to broadly ban transgender students from competing on sports teams that don’t align with their sex assigned at birth.
Clyde asked Cardona to defend the proposal by first defining “what is a woman.”
Cardona dodged…
Are you an ESL teacher looking for ideas and ESL games to spice up your lesson plans? Have you been searching high and low to break up the monotony in your classroom?
Fret not! Here at ESL Resources & Activities – English Teaching 101, we got your back!
Let’s face it, teaching English as a second language is hard. Very much so. And frankly? The same can be said from the students’ perspective as well; learning ESL is not exactly anyone’s favorite pastime, especially for kids and teenagers.
To combat this ever-pertinent problem, many teachers embrace gaming in the classroom.…