How to Leverage Multisensory Learning in Your Classroom

Listen to the interview with Jamie Chaves: Sponsored by EVERFI and Today by Studyo This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? “If it hasn’t been in the hands, it can’t be in the brain.” This is a quote I see every morning when I drop my daughter off at preschool. Even though she hasn’t studied sensory integration theory or neuroscience, my daughter’s teacher knows this from experience.  My…
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Office ergonomics: Your how-to guide

Office ergonomics: Your how-to guide Understanding office ergonomics and arranging your workspace accordingly can help you feel good throughout the workday. By Mayo Clinic Staff If your work involves sitting at a desk, discomfort doesn’t have to be part of the job. You may be able to avoid some of the health problems associated with seated work, such as neck and back pain and sore wrists and shoulders, by using proper office ergonomics. Chair height, equipment spacing and desk posture all make a difference. Use this guide to ease stress on your body, protect your joints and help you stay…
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How to Personalize Instruction with Seminars

Listen to the interview with Melanie Meehan (transcript): Sponsored by EVERFI and Today by Studyo This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Over the years, we’ve covered a lot of different ways to differentiate and personalize instruction, methods for giving each student what they need when they need it, rather than planning the exact same learning experiences for everyone, every day. (Click here to see all of our…
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Central Okanagan teaching resources for sexual health education program bolstered

Central Okanagan Public Schools will see an additional full-time teacher added to the school district’s sexual health education program of instructional resources this fall. That was one of seven recommendations from a review of the delivery program, which were adopted by the Central Okanagan Board of Education on Wednesday (May 10). When discussed at the education and student services committee meeting last month, it was indicated that additional teaching resources would be included in the 2023-24 school budget, for a teacher trained and certified to teach sexual education courses. Trustee Amy Geistlinger, chair of the education and student services committee,…
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Will chatbots help or hinder medical education? Here is what humans (and chatbots) say

The interview began well. The medical school applicant delivered informed answers about the role of artificial intelligence in medicine, giving a patient bad news (step five: “offer support and resources”), and applying ethical reasoning to determine which of two patients gets a donated liver. But when Sahil Mehta, MD, sought personal reflections — about college experiences, personal ambitions, and motivation to practice medicine — the responses got strange: “I do not attend college.” “I do not have personal preferences or desires.” “My knowledge of medicine is based on information that was available to me at the time of my training,…
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