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Learning to teach from naughty avatars

The Hechinger Report

University of Virginia researchers find that classroom simulations, combined with coaching, help prospective teachers improve their classroom management skills. Credit: Courtesy of the Curry School of Education and Human Development. Related: Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds.

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What I Need From My White Peers to Thrive as a Teacher of Color

ED Surge

In my classroom, I treat students as humans first, not obstacles to classroom management. What had they done or said in their classroom that day that made this student feel unsafe? I would have felt like my autonomy and humanity were being honored because I would get to advocate for not only the student but myself.

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I Spent Years Hiding Parts of My Identity When Students Really Needed Me to Embrace My Whole Self

ED Surge

We need to think of diversity beyond discrete, all-encompassing and exclusive labels and empower role models for students who are more than an ethnicity, a gender, a sexual orientation, or a disability, but unique and intricate human beings.

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It’s Time To Take Teacher Burnout Seriously. Here’s How.

ED Surge

Many say they feel less effective when they’re stressed , which research shows can negatively impact the quality of their instruction, classroom management and relationships with students suffer. The educational climate is rapidly deteriorating, the ripples of which we have yet to fully feel.

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I Used to Struggle With Where to Send My Kids to School. Now I Struggle With Sending Them at All.

ED Surge

This controlled chaos felt at odds with expectations of strict classroom management, and I had to shift gears quickly. Many of these communities continued, even after in-person schooling resumed because they allowed for a more humanizing learning experience. Still, I wonder, where do my children fall within these options?

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

ED Surge

The makers of these AI tools believe that technology can help stem the tide out of the profession. While tools can’t necessarily replace human coaches or in-depth professional development that districts conduct, they can help teachers take stock, and correct course. Then I can see and hear what’s going on.

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Developers: Share the Science Behind Your Product

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is collecting and highlighting examples of research-informed product design, development, and improvement to help school districts better understand why and how to identify research-based products that can be implemented in the classroom. A few examples: Behavior research can be used to enhance classroom management tools.