ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. So how does this “job dissatisfaction” rank with other problems with the teaching profession — like low pay? Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen.

Tutoring 130

Tutoring Economics Private School Public School 130

ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.” As our new normal continues on and we begin 2023, I’m reflecting on what my students and I lost in 2022—and what we’ve gained.

Middle School 130

Middle School Government Teaching High School 130

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.”

Humanities 52

Humanities Teaching American History Government 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In the very first minute of my first day teaching at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC, I received a rude awakening. In 2018, approximately 15 percent of American students were considered chronically absent ; in 2022, that number had risen to 28 percent. That doesnt mean that teaching was easy.

Pedagogy 172

Pedagogy Teaching Library Classroom Management 172

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2023

Now we’re ready to reveal the top higher education stories that EdSurge published in 2022, based on their popularity with you, our readers. In the midst of all that, professors and students also shared insights about their experiences balancing teaching and learning with the responsibilities of their daily lives. By Jeffrey R.

Education 107

Education EdTech High School Tradition 107

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. Smith (eds.), Handbook of Visual Communication (pp. Levi-Strauss, C. The Savage Mind.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy 130

Teaching Anthropology

JANUARY 13, 2023

The “emergency remote learning (ERT)” implemented widely during the pandemic did not generally represent a thoughtful transition to an online teaching modality that prioritizes a learner-center pedagogy (Bozkurt & Sharma, 2020; Hodges et al., Emergency remote teaching in a time of global crisis due to Corona Virus pandemic.

Teaching 130

Teaching Anthropology Pedagogy Education 130

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2022

What is “good” teaching? Deciding what constitutes good teaching is a messy business. The academics found that there was often a tradeoff between “good teaching” where kids learn stuff and “good teaching” that kids enjoy. Ask 10 people and you’ll get 10 different answers.

Teaching 142

Teaching Elementary School Research Education Policy 142

Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Teaching Anthropology. Human Organization.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Teaching Pedagogy Cultures 130

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Flash forward a few decades, and in 2022, I observed four teachers and 135 freshmen – all in one classroom. The model, known as team teaching, isn’t new. Now, team teaching has expanded nationally, and particularly in the American West. It dates back to the 1960s. They feel like they’re having a greater impact.”

Teaching 133

Teaching K-12 Middle School High School 133

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

We use technology as a tool to teach and learn. Another workshop discussed the productiveness of failure. We learn from trial and error; to err is human, after all, so why not learn that way? This is a key idea of playing games: We fail, we lose, and we learn to do better.

Education 144

Education EdTech Humanities Critical Thinking 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. For decades, the primary methods for teaching students how to read in the U.S. It is mostly targeted on those early grades,” Neuman said.

High School 145

High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available.

Teaching 143

Teaching Tradition High School Research 143

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

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. Teaching has consumed me.

Teaching 145

Teaching Humanities Lesson Plan Middle School 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

Thompson’s voice-activated assistant is the brainchild of computer scientist Satya Nitta, who founded a company called Merlyn Mind after many years at IBM where he had tried, and failed, to create an AI tool that could teach students directly. Despite Watson’s gameshow success, however, it wasn’t much good at teaching students.

Humanities 142

Humanities Teaching Tutoring Private School 142

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

percentage points lower among students who had more art exposure, according to the study, Investigating the Causal Effects of Arts Education , which published online in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management in November 2022. The post PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

Teaching 145

Teaching Museum Elementary School Critical Thinking 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

Fuchs also notes that there is a growing body of high quality research on how to teach children with disabilities or who are at risk of being diagnosed with a disability. We’re saying that the evidence in terms of where to place these children is extremely weak, is fundamentally flawed, and no conclusions can be drawn from the evidence.

Education 145

Education Psychology Research Government 145

Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago in the southern Caribbean, and Bridgewater State University (BSU) in Massachusetts, USA participated in a virtual peer-to-peer asynchronous exchange in 2022. About the Authors Shelene Gomes (she/her), PhD teaches Social Anthropology and the Sociology of Culture at the University of the West Indies, St.

Anthropology 246

Anthropology Sociology Cultures Tradition 246

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

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.

Education 93

Education Professional Development Charter School Lesson Plan 93

Becoming a History Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Understanding Seb’s choices One of the hardest things for beginning teachers to grasp is that teaching is about a lot more than designing activities which will engage/ enthuse/ occupy the pupils for the lesson. Retrieved 12 10, 2022, from [link] Grande, J. Learning to Teach History in the Secondary School.

Lesson Plan 68

Lesson Plan Pedagogy History Teaching 68

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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.

Teaching 107

Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 107

Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

Photo by Mathias Reding on Pexels.com We both began our teaching careers shortly after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. It also constitutes really good history teaching.

History 121

History Teaching Controversial Topics Tutoring 121

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

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.

Teaching 130

Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 130

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Students spend less time on foundational numeracy compared with what they spend on reading; elementary teachers often receive less training in how to teach math effectively; and schools use fewer interventions for students who need extra math support. Many American students struggle in math. They didn’t have the number sense, really.

Charter School 133

Charter School Elementary School Pedagogy Research 133

ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. The old ways of teaching seemed to leave students without an understanding of the importance of math for their chosen field. And the University of Arizona, Tucson, another public school, now teaches a version of LS 30.

Teaching 136

Teaching K-12 Tradition High School 136

ED Surge

MARCH 30, 2023

Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. The way you modeled how to avoid binary thinking has stayed with me into my adult years, and I have done my best to incorporate this discipline into my teaching. All they need to do is ask.

Teaching 109

Teaching Controversial Topics Library Civics 109

ED Surge

JANUARY 29, 2025

In 2022, when the first postpandemic results came back, the nations report card revealed historic declines in math performance, as well as declines in reading scores for fourth and eighth graders. This is a tough call that we have here as a nation to turn this back around, and it clearly is going to take time Carr said during a call Tuesday.

Tutoring 83

Tutoring History Public School Teaching 83

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

There’s a growing market for the convenience, accurate feedback and interaction that voice-based AI reading tools provide, due to the unprecedented fall in NAEP reading scores across the country coupled with mounting concerns about modern strategies for teaching literacy.

Teaching 122

Teaching EdTech Professional Development Tutoring 122

ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google. As a physics teacher, I am supposed to teach Newtons Laws of motion and how electricity works. The correct answer was two, and we reviewed this topic the day and weeks before.

Library 87

Library High School Teaching Economics 87

Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

A Learner Called to Teach People who love to learn often find joy in helping others learn, especially if they like “being around kids,” as Lenardson does. Both Lenardson and her husband Robb—whose first career was in business—felt called to teach in mid-life. I’ve found my sweet spot, where I can help kids on the brink of adulthood.

Teaching 105

Teaching American History Government US Government 105

ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. Colleges need to ensure their early courses are teaching students foundational math skills, Venit says.

Tutoring 113

Tutoring High School Middle School Teaching 113

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

A 2022 study found that women in prison education programs reported higher self-esteem, a greater sense of belonging and more hope for the future than women who had never been incarcerated and had not completed post-secondary education. He now works as the assistant director of operations at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.

Sociology 98

Sociology Tutoring High School Leadership 98

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. Fast-forward to 2022, and it’s important to ask: Are teachers still pushing today’s version of that TV cart into our online and physical classrooms?

Teaching 122

Teaching Education K-12 EdTech 122

ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And he hasn’t had to abandon teaching. I just get to do the fun part now: teach,” he shares. “I Once I became a teacher, even though I was teaching Spanish, computer science and social studies to middle and high school students, I was always using technology in the classroom. If they said, ‘So you don't teach kids anymore?’

Teaching 119

Teaching K-12 Social Studies Museum 119

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

In 2022, only 22 percent of eighth graders tested proficient or above in understanding how this countrys constitutional democracy is supposed to work and how to apply that knowledge. Like Indiana, states should recognize civic excellence by offering civic seals to high school graduates.

Civics 79

Civics K-12 Middle School High School 79

ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

Those programs primarily cater to individuals who lack expertise and experience in working with young children and want to upskill quickly, qualifying them for more senior and better-paying classroom teaching roles. So we really wanted to build a wealth of training to support directors or any administrator in that role.

Leadership 107

Leadership Government Teaching Humanities 107

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It suggests the importance of relationships and human connection in the teaching profession. If you or your coaching team are interested in joining cohort 2, which will run from beginning of March to early May 2022, you can explore the course content here. I love that the word connection is the largest word in this cloud.

Humanities 213

Humanities Teaching Research Education 213