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How Teacher Prep Programs Are Stepping Up Efforts to Recruit Students

Edsurge

And it’s not just a problem today — there’s worry that the pipeline of new teachers being trained might be shrinking as well. As we know, white women dominate K-12 teaching, particularly elementary,” says Maureen Kelleher, editorial director at Georgetown University’s FutureEd.

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Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators

Waterford

Instead, view it as a tool that can inform and supplement lessons, and even then, only if teachers and administrators are well trained in its use. Lessons that involve digital citizenship can help a student use technology responsibly well beyond their elementary school years. April 2010, 3(4), pp. Buckenmeyer, J.A. and Brand, L.

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What You Can Do to Bring Emotional Intelligence Lessons into the Classroom

Waterford

And finally, if you are a school administrator, plan an emotional intelligence training session for your faculty. Emotional intelligence training and SEL programs are not only linked to a positive classroom environment, but they also improve overall academic performance.[11,13]. The Elementary School Journal, 2007, 108(2), pp.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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It’s Time to Blur the Boundaries Between High School, College and Work

Edsurge

I attended low-performing elementary and middle schools in San Francisco, and no one in my family had ever gone to college. For example, even as early as 2010, 15 percent of community college entrants (or 1.4 My pathway to college and a career was a narrow—and unlikely—success story. In some states, the share was as high as 37 percent.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

The Hechinger Report

The June 2023 research report, “ Tracking Progress Through Michigan’s Teacher Pipeline ,” analyzed prospective teachers of all races, and found that enrollment in education courses has been declining since 2010. They’re just not completing their teacher training. Many of these Black students are staying in college and earning degrees.

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