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Teacher Burnout- Symptoms, Causes, and Strategies to Prevent It

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The telltale signs of teacher burnout include feeling emotionally drained after work, increased absenteeism and tardiness, irritability towards coworkers and students, lack of enthusiasm and motivation in the classroom, difficulty focusing on lesson plans or engaging with students and wish to quit the job. More sources: Hoglund, W.

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Nepal says students have a right to learn in their native languages —but it still isn’t happening

The Hechinger Report

Related: Once criticized, ‘Spanglish’ finds a place in the classroom Non-Nepali speakers consistently underperform at school. Students learn Nepali during a May 2003 lesson at the Mahendra Jhoti Secondary School in Chaurikharka, Nepal. Some teachers spoke very fast in Nepali,” he says. “I I was often very nervous.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2015 $0. FY 2013 $0.

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How School Districts Are Shaping the Edtech They Use

eSpark

At eSpark Learning, we want to reimagine classrooms so that they’re student-centered, allowing students to succeed in school and in life. Mineola has demonstrated how personalized learning can prevent summer learning loss, implementing eSpark in summer school classrooms with fantastic results. Chicago, Illinois. Piedmont, Alabama.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Lesson study is used in the majority of elementary schools and middle schools in Japan but is rare in high schools ( Yoshida, 2002 ).

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

Tech Helpful

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs.