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Poor Pedagogical Choices: When task design derails your lesson

Becoming a History Teacher

Yes, a few had managed to write something about the French Revolution having multiple causes, but the lesson hadn’t quite paid off as he hoped. In this situation, Seb’s lesson plan is thwarted from the get-go by his preoccupation with the HOW rather than the WHAT and the WHY. Had it been worth all the effort?

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As the Teacher Shortage Crisis Deepens in Ohio, Immigrant Educators Could Be the Answer

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In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school. Our principal recruits and advertises open teaching positions only to receive zero applications most of the time.

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Our 10 Most Popular K-12 Stories of 2022

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As we march forward into a new year, EdSurge is reflecting on the stories we shared and the biggest hits of 2022. We explored new efforts by school districts to address staff shortages and other ongoing fallout from the pandemic, including four-day school weeks and more flexible, better-paying teaching programs. That's Why I Resigned.

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Teaching Was My Dream. Now I Wonder If It Is Stunting My Other Passions.

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Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me.

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They Left Teaching in Search of a Better Life. Did They Find It?

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I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching. Several months after her injury, in August 2022, she started a new job as a grants coordinator for a community mental health agency in Northern Michigan, where she lives. “I For a long time, I lived and breathed teaching.

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How Teach for America Crushed My Passion for Teaching

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The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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

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What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. Teaching With a Broken Heart They say teaching is “a work of the heart,” and indeed, it is. I was always completing tasks for other people. It’s just a reality of the job.

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