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New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

The Hechinger Report

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Transforming Physicists, Engineers into Teachers at New MIT Program

MindShift

And by putting other talents first, it’s also a closely watched reversal of the conventional approach to training them. “We This gives them experience with a process, known as competency-based learning, that a growing number of primary and secondary schools where they’ll eventually teach are beginning to adopt.

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Join Us for the Third Annual Global Leadership Summit - March 23rd, 2018 in Boston

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Center is a platform for advancing education for global competence for all youth through empowering professional development for teachers and school heads, systems change and public engagement. More recently he co-authored Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World. He holds a B.A.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Schools used their professional development budgets, and were able to use federal money, for teacher training to support work toward the switch. As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning. percent to 89.1

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How AR and VR Prepare Students for Jobs of the Future (and Save Districts Money)

Edsurge

Her class is learning about muscles, but instead of watching a video or reading about it in a book, she can move a virtual arm and see an exposed bicep muscle contract. They’re getting the accurate training they need, and I think that puts them at a huge advantage over a student who is still doing it the traditional way.

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The 2018 Global Leadership Summit - March 23rd, 2018 in Boston

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Center is a platform for advancing education for global competence for all youth through empowering professional development for teachers and school heads, systems change and public engagement. More recently he co-authored Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World. He holds a B.A.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. They haven’t.). But new technology hasn’t made it easy.

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