Educational Links 8/13/17

3 Modes Of Thinking: Lateral, Divergent & Convergent Thought

http://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/3-modes-of-thought-divergent-convergent-thinking/?utm_content=buffere57e5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Forging Stronger Bonds Across a District

https://www.edutopia.org/article/forging-stronger-bonds-across-district?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

Poverty Creates Extra Challenges; It Demands Extra Resources

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2017/08/poverty-creates-extra-challenges-it.html

5 apps to innovate school libraries

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/07/21/ew-apps-school-libraries/

Creating an Effective Faculty Mentoring Program

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/faculty-development/creating-effective-faculty-mentoring-program/

A tale of two states’ computer science programs

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/08/10/state-computer-science-programs/

The Unexpected Reason Some Students Procrastinate

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rulesforengagement/2017/08/why_students_procrastinate-self-handicapping.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

There's a student that's familiar to many teachers: He's the one who stumbles into class with sleep in his eyes after staying up late from writing his paper at the last minute. He probably avoids studying for tests, too. And maybe his backpack is a jumbled mess of crumpled papers and unorganized notes.

And there's also a common explanation for his bad habits: He probably doesn't particularly care how he does in school. But psychologists say that, for some students, that's a totally inaccurate assumption.