techlearning

MAY 1, 2018

BEAVERTON, Oregon, May 1, 2018 — This summer, Vernier Software & Technology will host 21 full-day, hands-on training institutes to help science educators learn how to integrate data-collection technology into their curricula. Both include training, lunch, and one Vernier digital lab book or sensor.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Black elementary students in North Carolina tended to score higher on annual math tests when they were taught by an HBCU-trained teacher, but not necessarily a Black teacher, according to an unpublished study from a Stanford University graduate student. Though not a large number, a quarter of these HBCU-trained teachers were white.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

A “full support school” since 2018, we were dealing with some major challenges. I learned about Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling Suite (LETRS) from my mentor principal at the state department, which works with schools like Central Elementary to establish the specific benchmarks that each Alabama school must reach.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The elementary school my younger son attends was incredibly supportive. Unfortunately, it is not a universally required part of educator training or professional development. Unfortunately, it is not a universally required part of educator training or professional development. more than doubled between 2018 and 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

If pre-K and elementary teachers are going to be better equipped to teach science, they need better training during teacher preparation programs — and that training should be followed by long-term support. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. The onsite training is expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. She’s also a teacher-in-training. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. MORGAN CITY, La. The “apprenticeship degree” model costs students $75 dollars a month.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Mon, 11/19/2018 - 08:21. Each of our 10 elementary schools has a digital learning specialist. It may sound odd, coming as part of an educational technology conversation, but a good example of this is that we put makerspaces in all of our elementary and middle schools. eli.zimmerman_9856. Photo: Rachel Gorton.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

In spring 2018, the pilot launched at one center and then spread to 13 additional centers in the fall. One reason the mental health consultant approach is so helpful for teachers is because many early childhood teacher-training programs include little, if anything, on the social and emotional needs of young children. “A

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Fri, 11/30/2018 - 11:24. Sergio Flores, the school’s competitive engineering coach, signed up his school and joined five other schools in the area to compete in this 2018 event sponsored by Bell Helicopter, an aircraft manufacturer whose headquarters are in Fort Worth. Support Teachers Through STEM Training. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

BEAVERTON, Oregon, February 23, 2018 — Vernier Software & Technology will host 21 free hands-on workshops to help science and STEM educators learn how to integrate Vernier data-collection technology—including the new Vernier Go Direct wireless sensors—into their curriculum. Interested educators can select dates from the schedule below.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. A year earlier, I had graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. I wasn’t trained to teach computer science, how was I supposed to make this work?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 14, 2019

Today Darrian Tanner, the Florida State High Impact Teacher award winner for 2016-2017 and 2018-2019 talks about how to help teachers improve their classroom management skills. She has been awarded the Florida State High Impact Teacher Award for 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school year.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2020

In the 2018-2019 school year alone, Fairfax County students earned 18,000 industry credentials, says Beth Downey, the district’s CTE coordinator. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2020

In the 2018-2019 school year alone, Fairfax County students earned 18,000 industry credentials, says Beth Downey, the district’s CTE coordinator. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

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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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Three other barriers — scaling and sustaining innovation; instituting ongoing professional technology training; and digital equity — are related to these top hurdles. The county opened an “unschool” for high school students in the 2018–19 school year but purchased no equipment until students arrived. Tech for Tech’s Sake Doesn’t Work.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Three other barriers — scaling and sustaining innovation; instituting ongoing professional technology training; and digital equity — are related to these top hurdles. The county opened an “unschool” for high school students in the 2018–19 school year but purchased no equipment until students arrived. Tech for Tech’s Sake Doesn’t Work.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). After relinquishing his dreams of becoming a teacher, Everett Anderson graduated from Jackson State University in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in social work. That was in 2017. “It

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Virtual Reality–VR–is the 2018 buzzword among students, teachers, and even parents. Younger students—preschool to early elementary—typically learn through experience. Vocational Training. And rightfully deserved, VR has the ability to recreate so many of the rules that used to shape education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4 And in 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high schoolers, college students, and adults, according to Advance CTE , a professional organization for state CTE leaders. Louisiana bet big on career education.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s important to note that those impressive numbers don’t include remote students at the elementary or high school level. While the bulk of cybersecurity is in the hands of trained techs and professionals, students can learn how to effectively safeguard their online data. took at least one online course.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I attended low-performing elementary and middle schools in San Francisco, and no one in my family had ever gone to college. More than 7,100 Texas high school students earned associate degrees in the 2018-19 academic year, and many of those credentials included industry certifications.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

In the research literature, the tutors are specially trained and coached, adhere to a detailed curriculum and work with one or two students at a time. Sometimes tutors weren’t properly trained nor was there a clear curriculum. The question, of course, is whether we can recruit and train enough tutors to meet the need right now.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Here’s the problem: In spite of the relative success of programs like Code.org and CS4ALL, the latest data from the College Board show that only 28 percent of the AP Computer Science test-takers in 2018 were women. Teacher training programs aren’t yet making a dent: Very few, if any, training programs in the U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Makerspaces and maker culture have quickly become a favorite of STEAM advocates, and new research shows that makerspaces can be highly effective at helping elementary students develop skills such as critical thinking, design thinking, and problem solving.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2020

In the fall of 2018 our school made a big shift. The difference two years ago was that we trained 100 percent of the teachers from PreK to grade 12 at St. Lunch was lengthened so students could eat with siblings, parents or guardians—or online with classmates for elementary students, which proved extremely popular.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 30, 2018

Mon, 07/30/2018 - 11:28. Set up a monthly parent night where they can come for training with a technology resource person to learn about the tools their students are using on the devices. Make Parents Comfortable with Tech for a Successful 1:1 Program. eli.zimmerman_9856. Your school has finally gone one-to-one with Chromebooks.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When Roanoke County Public Schools gathered educators for their first training in how to teach with Minecraft: Education Edition (M:EE), “you could hear the rumble in the room,” says Jeff Terry, the district’s director of technology. That was early 2018. When we started the official training you could hear the rumble in the room.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Outside observers, who weren’t told which teachers got the training, noted that students were spending more time on task. Math and reading scores on one standardized test were slightly higher in the classrooms of teachers who got the training compared with classrooms that didn’t. “As They get what they want!”.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Simon was confident that her team’s efforts would help.

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techlearning

APRIL 17, 2018

April 17, 2018) – The country is facing a critical shortage of special education teachers. The need to increase the number of fully-trained special education teachers led the U.S. A central feature of the training program will be the use of video analysis of classroom practice, powered by the Edthena video coaching platform.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2021

The Alabama State Department of Education adopted use of LETRS as part of the Alabama Literacy Act, which in addition to providing foundational literacy support, also provides intensive support for the state’s lowest performing elementary schools. At that time, 109 participants completed the LETRS for Early Childhood Educators course, and 97.2%

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When I was a school superintendent in Maine, the five cities and towns that comprised our learning community wanted assurances that graduates of our three high schools would be adequately prepared for college or career training opportunities after high school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It shut down four campuses after it purchased for-profit Kaplan University in 2018 and converted it to a public four-year university called Purdue Global. Most other public closures were small ones, such as the closure of a teacher training site at a local elementary school. One big exception was Purdue University.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2019

WASHINGTON — When Stephanie Gunter accepted a second-grade teaching position at Langley Elementary, she was no novice. New teachers hired at the elementary school this year would have a hard time believing that, just three years ago, the suspension rate was 66 percent and physical altercations were not uncommon among 7-, 8- and 9-year-olds.

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