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There will be another training session about punctuation and calculating percentages, but what about the skills that aren’t quantifiable?
The fourth-graders walk up to a full-length mirror -- one after the other -- at a school in southwest Atlanta. "I'm smart!" a girl says. "I'm a good person!" a boy adds.
A first-grade teacher at a Michigan elementary school is being hailed as a hero after alerting the school principal that her online student's grandmother was having a stroke.
The most experienced teachers in America’s education system reflect on their careers, their schools, and the history they’ve witnessed.
With face-to-face schooling set to resume amid the coronavirus pandemic, one teacher asks politicians why they feel they are "more important" than her.
Hundreds of graduate teachers in government schools will be assigned a mentor in a scheme to stop young teachers leaving the profession.
As a graduate primary school teacher about to embark on my first year in the classroom, I expected that January would be a busy month. But I had no idea that it would be so expensive, writes Ellen Wengert.
A University of Melbourne study identifies the top ten characteristics great teachers share, with high levels of self-efficacy making the biggest impact.
Interviews with students who have a vision impairment show they wish their teachers and friends knew more about them. Here are the four key messages they want to communicate.
The first job of a teacher is to make the student fall in love with the subject. That doesn’t have to be done by waving your arms and prancing around the classroom; there’s all sorts of ways to go at it, but no matter what, you are a symbol of the subject in the students’ minds.
As that symbol, Teller argued, the teacher has a duty to engage, to create romance that can transform apathy into interest, and, if a teacher does her job well, a sort of transference of enthusiasm from teacher to student takes place. The best teachers, Teller contended, find a way to teach content while keeping students interested. “If you don’t have both astonishment and content, you have either a technical exercise or you have a lecture.” Teller’s educational philosophy is rooted in the philosopher A.N. Whitehead’s “rhythm of education,” a theory that asserts learning happens in three stages: romance, precision, and generalization.
A proposed Quebec law to bar public sector employees in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols has set off a backlash.
For women with a bachelor of arts degree, teaching is one of the highest paying jobs. The opposite is true for men.
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Teacher read to class without a mask despite Covid symptoms and infected 26 people at California elementary school
The incoming first lady’s former students share stories about life in her classroom.
“I am a teacher because I’m chasing the ghost of the educator I needed as a child,” said Eric Hale, who had a traumatic childhood.
All students interviewed for a study on relationships with teachers said the ones they loved most were kind, caring or funny. They said the ones they disliked often treated them unfairly.
They view the success of black students as central to the success of their own teaching.
The coronavirus pandemic is increasing academic gaps, and educators are scrambling to reduce them.
Teachers with a strong belief in their own ability to ‘get the job done’ have the biggest impact on a student’s learning.
The stress often outweighs the fulfilment that comes from the job. It’s not surprising teachers are exhausted
Every school should should have at least one qualified special education teacher, and Australia should invest in a recognised pathway to be qualified.
Nearly one-quarter of young people surveyed said women exaggerated claims of sexual assault. This is only one reason why education on underlying values that lead to violence against women matters.
Kiki Leyba was a first-year teacher during the 1999 Columbine shooting. Why he's still there after 20 years
Inspiring story behind teacher awarded the Global Teacher Prize.
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