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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S.

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My First Year

Rosie the History Teacher

I was teaching World History and we were studying ancient civilizations at the beginning of the year. In 2017, I left my role as founding history teacher and took on a new position as an instructional designer for a large textbook company. It was in that hallway/lobby classroom that I started my first PBL.

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The Impact of a Teacher

Studies Weekly

When surveyed about the characteristics of an impactful teacher in 2017, Terada expressed that people rarely mentioned academics or test scores. We actually learn much more effectively in a state of positive emotion than we can learn in a state of negative emotion. That has huge implications for what you do in schools.

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When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail

The Hechinger Report

Having just turned 12 in the fall of 2017, Alan bubbled over with excitement ahead of his first rally at Deming Intermediate School in Deming, New Mexico, a small city near the Mexican border. Pep rallies are supposed to be joyful, loud and unabashed. This story also appeared in USA Today. Classrooms aren’t easy for Alan, his mother said. (We