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Teacher Engagement Part II: Emotional Engagement

Catlin Tucker

The quality of a teacher’s relationship with their students has the most significant impact on their emotional engagement at work (Hagenauer, Hascher & Volet, 2015; Tucker 2020). When student behaviors distract from the learning or jeopardize the safe psychological space in the classroom, it is emotionally draining for educators.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

Since 2015, Kelly Tudor, in Texas, has run a Facebook group for Indigenous home-school families. Early in fall 2020, Hidalgo and her husband scoured the internet for curriculum and lesson plans that they could use at home to teach their kids. Home school is attractive because you get to spend more time as a family.”.

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OPINION: Many teachers see social-emotional learning as the ‘missing link’ in student success

The Hechinger Report

As instructors finalize lesson plans and schools across the country head back into session, there’s been a recent and significant surge of interest in social and emotional learning (SEL) curricula at both the federal and state levels. Related: COLUMN: A cheaper, quicker approach to social-emotional learning?

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All the ways to teach vocabulary

Maitri Learning

2015; Zoll, Feinberg, & Saylor, 2023). For more information, download our free lesson plan describing how to use Matching Cards. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 92(2), 140-160. This is backed up both by science of reading research and by neurobiological research (Hong et al., 2018; Marks et al.,

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Teaching among the ashes: ‘It’s not just your house that burned, it’s everyone’s’

The Hechinger Report

A year and a half after the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history, students are coping with the psychological consequences of living through a megadisaster that sent them running for their lives. In California, seven of the ten most destructive fires on record have occurred since 2015. It was a 180 turn.”.

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Can children learn from a “mixed-reality” game?

The Hechinger Report

In 2015 she began testing her shaking table contraption to see how well young kids, ages 6 through 8, could learn basic physics principles from it. Yannier began with two lesson plans: one given to kids only on the computer; and one given to a different group of kids using her mixed-reality contraption.

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Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education data from 2015, since the 2008-2009 school year there’s been a 30 percent drop in enrollment nationwide: 75 percent of enrollees in traditional programs are white, 11 percent Hispanic, and 9 percent black. She is 35, and this wasn’t exactly her plan. “My My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history!