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My understanding of the word “trauma” has evolved over the last few years. It used to be limited to incidents that were objectively harmful and almost always severe, events that involved some kind of violence, like experiencing or directly witnessing a physical assault, or a tragedy…
This is Part 3 of an interview series with Barry Garelick and J.R. Wilson about Traditional Math: An Effective Strategy that Teachers Feel Guilty Using. You can read Parts 1 & 2, and the rest of the saga as it comes out, here.
Q3: How does a traditional approach to math teaching offer opportunities for students to learn from their errors and failures? And how does it address struggle?
Barry: Students will make mistakes in math class; that’s unavoidable. Mistakes offer an opportunity to identify and correct misconceptions and common errors, as well as providing students a closer look at…
(Bloomberg) — French President Emmanuel Macron replaced his health and education ministers as part of a cabinet reshuffle aimed at bringing some fresh impetus to his administration after months of unrest.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will remain in place, while her former chief of staff, Aurelien Rousseau, will take over the Health Ministry from Francois Braun, Macron’s office said Thursday in a statement.
Gabriel Attal, previously budget minister and before that government spokesman, will replace Pap Ndiaye as education minister. The long-expected cabinet shakeup also sees Bruno Le Maire remain at the helm of the Finance Ministry.
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Just about every summer I take a trip to somewhere new. This year I went to the Yucatán Peninsula with family. One of the main things to do there this time of year is go swimming with the whale sharks. Before paying the 150 dollars to embark on a whale shark safari, I asked the obvious question: What are the chances I’m NOT going to see a whale shark?
The tour operator laughed. We were in peak whale shark season. To not see at least one whale shark would be very, very unusual, I was told.
Nevertheless, on the day…
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Minister for Education Norma Foley has said that she believes the new sexual education curriculum published on Tuesday brings the syllabus into “the real lived experience of young people today”.
She was speaking after the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) published a revamped SPHE (social, personal and health education) program for Junior Cycle students.
Speaking outside the Department of Education, Ms Foley said she was aware of the “huge amount of young people” accessing pornography on their phones.
“We need our children to be protected, we need them to be protected and we need them to access information…
The Manitoba Teachers’ Idea Fund is supporting mental health programming at Ross L. Gray School in Sprague.
A grant of $150,000 is going toward Infusing the 5T’s of Mental Health into the Mamàhtawisiwin Framework. The 5T’s refer to talking, training, teaching, tools, and taking care.
Mamàhtawisiwin: The Wonder We Are Born With—An Indigenous Education Policy Framework is a provincial policy directive and conceptual framework that supports the holistic achievements of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit learners by assisting Manitoba educators in incorporating Indigenous pedagogy, languages, and culture into their teaching and practices.
“We have Treaty One and Treaty Three within…
A conversation with UNICEF Côte d’Ivoire Representative Marc Vincent about building community resilience amid an influx of refugees from Burkina Faso.
Fanta Kone, a UNICEF staff member, with 10-month-old twins Adama and Awa, refugees from Burkina Faso, in Tougbo, in the north of Côte d’Ivoire.
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Q&A with UNICEF Representative Marc Vincent, who explains how UNICEF is helping Côte d’Ivoire manage a sudden influx of refugees from Burkina Faso — and ensure that all children, no matter where they are from, can get the health care, nutrition, education and other services they need to survive and thrive. “I do…