The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

.: Columbia Public Schools teachers Brandy Ahrens, Elly Eckhoff and Heather Smith are intent as facilitator Kim Nuetzmann explains the three topic areas in which the veteran teachers were being asked for input: cooperating teacher support, teacher candidates and enhancing the partnership between PK-12 and higher education.

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Classroom Management Lesson Plan Pedagogy Elementary School 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Getting to Know the Students: Frequently new teachers are placed in a classroom with children of strikingly different backgrounds from their own. Whether it’s a difference in race, income, cultural background or learning style, they are rarely in a classroom that mirrors their own experience.

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Lesson Plan Classroom Management Elementary School Cultures 75

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Indeed, that’s why wellness — eating right, exercising and rest—features prominently in many teacher stress management plans, including the ones developed for the Atlanta schools working with Georgia State University’s Center for Research on School Safety, School Climate, and Classroom Management.

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Elementary School Professional Development Classroom Management Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

To begin the process of reversing the school’s suspension rate, Morgan-Thompson knew her teachers needed stronger classroom management skills. Following guidance from the district, she immediately enrolled her teachers in training that would help them gain control of their classrooms.

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Elementary School Classroom Management High School Leadership 102

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Though Wilson has maybe a dozen African American male teachers on its K-8 staff, only one of them teaches within Wilson’s primary school, in the second grade. It’s a rarity to see male teachers in the classroom at all on this floor,” James said. For Albert, shifting to this new school culture was a challenge.

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Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Arnett also said that schools must be ready to foster a shift in classroom instruction and, on a larger scale, a change in school culture towards technology in the classroom. This could mean providing additional training for teachers on the instructional use of digital learning tools—how they’re going to use technology.

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Advocacy Classroom Management Elementary School Public School 67

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

In this context, school boards look for teachers who have some common and agreed-upon understanding of what should transpire in classrooms. Likewise, I could move from my current city to practically any other place in the province and, discounting individual school differences in policy and culture, fit in comfortably and begin my job easily.

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Heritage Political Science Government Psychology 68

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2018

A protest against gun violence on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine massacre, in which 12 students and a teacher were gunned down in a Colorado school in 1999. A well-recognized problem facing the teaching profession is how to prepare teachers for classroom management, a euphemistic term for keeping order in the classroom.

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Classroom Management Humanities Economics Teaching 82

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Boccia’s classroom walls are decorated with colorful posters of the subjects his students are learning about: the solar system, maps of the world, nouns and verbs. Imagine if you were taught just colors and letters, over and over again, for 12 years of school because people didn’t think you are capable of learning anything beyond that?

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Professional Development High School Teaching Classroom Management 103

Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But a video artifact of what happened is as close as we can get to enabling the teacher to directly observe themselves and come to a shared understanding about what is happening in their classroom, and that shared understanding could be between them and their students. How do you build a culture of trust for teachers using video?

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