Resume Issues? Need An Internship? This Organization Can Help
(NPR)
Here’s how it works: Year Up partners with community colleges for a 12-month program. Students spend the first six months taking classes. Some of those courses are in “skill-development” — subject based on the area’s demand.
Little-Known Secrets For How To Get Published
(APA’s Monitor on Psychology)
Advice from seasoned psychologists for those seeking to publish in a journal for the first time.
What Teachers and Sports Coaches Can Learn From Each Other
(KQED – Mind/Shift)
When Vicky Tong started coaching seventh- and eighth-grade cross-country in 2012, she took the job because the school where she teaches needed somebody to do it. Tong figured that this additional work would follow naturally from her duties as a middle school science and Chinese teacher and complement her interest in running. She was training for a half-marathon when the offer arrived, and the timing seemed right.
Good Interventions Do NOT Have to be Expensive
(The Learning Scientists)
So no, strategies that are fairly easy to implement do not mean that teachers would have figured it out for themselves. Teachers aren’t dumb, but they do have many competing pressures that don’t necessarily give them the time to sit down and comb through the literature on learning processes and cognition.
Mixed Results on Note-Taking by Hand or Laptop
(Inside Higher Ed – Quick Takes)
“Some trends suggested longhand superiority; however, performance did not consistently differ between any groups,” the study found.
Mindfulness in Schools
(The Academic Minute)
Research has shown that in adults, mindfulness programs can improve ability to regulate emotions, decrease reactivity to negative events, and improve emotional and cognitive flexibility. Recently, similar mindfulness and meditation practices implemented in schools have also found improvement in social and emotional functioning with children.
Six Ways to Teach Social and Emotional Skills All Day
(KQED – Mind/Shift)
More and more, educators are recognizing that these skills — often called “social and emotional” skills — are inextricably intertwined with the academic skills. Nine out of 10 teachers believe that social emotional skills can and should be taught. But four out of five want more support to address their students’ social emotional development. How do teachers catch up their practices with what they know is possible?
Should You Allow Laptops in Class? Here’s What the Latest Study Adds to That Debate
(The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Plenty of professors have strong opinions about whether laptops belong in the classroom. They also pride themselves on holding opinions based on research. So a new paper investigating the difference between taking notes longhand or on a laptop was bound to attract attention. But that doesn’t mean it offers a definitive answer.
An Expert On Human Blind Spots Gives Advice On How To Think
(Vox)
How to fight the Dunning-Kruger effect, explained by psychologist David Dunning.
A New Replication Study Revives The Question: Is Taking Notes By Hand Really Better For Students?
(Medium)
Let me say that again — it’s not the modality of notetaking, but the thought processes that go along with it, that matter.
Can Data Make You a Better Teacher?
(The Chronicle)
Terri L. Renner had long wondered what made some of her students succeed more than others.
Social-Emotional Learning Data May Identify Problems, But Can Schools Fix Them?
(Education Week)
In one district, seeing survey data about school climate and students’ self-perception of social and emotional strengths motivated educators to change their practices, a new report concludes. And that was true even though the survey results weren’t used for high-stakes purposes, like teacher evaluations.
Restorative Practices May Not Be The Solution, But Neither Are Suspensions
(The Conversation)
Proponents of restorative justice suffered a blow recently with the late 2018 release of a much anticipated RAND study of restorative practices in Pittsburgh schools.
How To Make Grad School More Humane
(Pacific Standard)
There’s a mental-health crisis among graduate students, and it bears particularly hard on those with disabilities. Fixing it requires specific mental-health supports—and broad cultural change.
There’s Another Area Of Psychology Where Most Of The Results Do Replicate – Personality Research
(British Psychological Society)
While psychology has been mired in a “replication crisis” recently – based on the failure of contemporary researchers to recreate some of its most cherished findings – there have been pockets of good news for certain sub-disciplines in the field.
