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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

A 2017 article by Edutopia states that students do not retain memorized facts and dates very well but they do remember first-person accounts that emotionally connect them to the subject.

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

ED Surge

Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years.

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How to sort the good from the bad in OER

The Hechinger Report

But she said professional development and support are essential, too. There are few high-quality purveyors of whole curricula to begin with, she said, and “most curriculum developers don’t embed professional development and support” in their programs. And they’re lacking.

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PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In others, teachers went to summer training institutes, attended extra professional development days during the school year and were given monthly coaching sessions. It’s an open question whether large numbers of teachers will enjoy teaching detailed lesson plans created by curriculum designers. It was a big investment.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired. Between the 2014-15 and 2017-18 school years, teacher retention grew from 60 to 90 percent.

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Scheduling ways to make teaching less solitary

The Hechinger Report

According to a 2017 report from the National Council on Teacher Quality , one-third of states do not require that teachers go through at least 10 weeks of full-time student teaching. Instead, every day, new teachers work with veteran teachers and administrators to write all of their lesson plans together.

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Teaching Broke My Heart. That's Why I Resigned.

ED Surge

In North Carolina, where I live, teachers are paid for “show time” with students, but there is little regard—and certainly no reward—for the hours of unpaid preparation and lesson planning it takes to keep a classroom running. The issue of teacher pay prevented North Carolina from passing a budget from 2017 to 2022.

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