Three Ways to Prime Students for Learning

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Are there parts of your course you wish could be taught more effectively?
Would you like to prepare students for learning material with which they tend to struggle?
Do you want to help students transition effectively from one learning activity to another?

Priming your students will provide solutions to these questions. Read on for three useful ways to improve student learning.

Priming

Priming is a strategy that introduces a new topic to students in a way that facilitates their academic learning because they know what they can expect. Priming prepares students for upcoming information or a learning activity before they receive the information or participate in the activity in a course. Priming exposes students to new material in a way that influences their learning behavior later, without them necessarily being aware.

According to cognitive psychology, priming is a process in which we use a mental framework (or schema) to organize

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Teacher on Leave After Middle-Schoolers Use ‘Pedo Database’ to Track Him

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  • A group of Rhode Island middle schoolers thought their teacher was a “creep” toward girls in class.
  • They kept a “pedo database” of his actions in class after adults ignored their complaints, per The Boston Globe.
  • Now, the “database” is part of an investigation into whether the teacher stalked a middle school girl.

A group of Rhode Island middle schoolers thought their teacher was a “creep,” so they kept a log of all of his inappropriate interactions with girls in their class. Now, the teacher is on administrative leave and under investigation.

The group of Davisville Middle School boys in North Kingstown started the “pedo database” after watching their teacher ogle at girls in their class, giving them nicknames like “sweetheart” and “sunshine,” and asking them to dance for him, The Boston Globe reported.

When the group tried reporting the situation, adults didn’t take them seriously, one

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Education Companies Warn On Growth, Regulations

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UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools ‘shameful’

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ISLAMABAD — The United Nations on Sunday called for Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7-12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”

The UN said it is concerned that the policy, together with other restrictions on basic freedoms, will contribute to a deepening of the country’s economic crisis in the form of greater insecurity, poverty and isolation.

“This is a tragic, shameful, and entirely avoidable anniversary,” said Markus Potzel, acting head of the UN mission in Afghanistan.

A year after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, hard-liners appear to hold sway in the Taliban-led government. Teenage girls are still barred from school and women are required to cover themselves from head to toe in public, with only their eyes showing. The religious group has failed to deliver on various promises to enable girls’ return to the classroom. The ban targets grades 7-12,

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Seattle Schools says strike could delay first day of school

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Seattle Public Schools is warning parents the first day of school, set for Wednesday, could be delayed because of a possible teacher strike.

“We are optimistic an agreement will be reached,” says a statement posted Friday on the SPS website and sent to families across the district. But if school is delayed, SPS said, it is working on a plan to provide pickup meals for students and reaching out to community child care providers. After-school activities will continue even if the school start date is pushed back.

Members of the Seattle Education Association are voting through 9 am Tuesday on whether to authorize a strike. The union has about 6,000 members.

SPS posted a statement Friday saying the SEA has declined to enter into legal mediation to reach an agreement.

But Julie Popper, spokesperson for the SEA, said in a text message Saturday that “SPS did not show up for

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