A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2012

This has resulted in the reduction of staff, larger class sizes, lack of follow through to repair aging buildings, and the inability to keep up with purchasing and replacing educational technology. This is why the time is now for districts and schools to seriously consider developing a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) initiative.

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Global Connections Educational Technology Classroom Management Professional Development 338

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? Teaching is hard.

Research 145

Research Professional Development Tutoring Teaching 145

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

She’s also director of the Center for Teaching Excellence there, which provides faculty with support for instruction, edtech, course design, classroom management and grading. And we're talking about that in my own Center for Teaching Excellence right now. We've talked about helicopter parents for a long time.

Economics 126

Economics K-12 EdTech Classroom Management 126

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Researchers also found that teachers who were white, early in their careers, and teaching at middle schools to be “the ones who engage more in extensive referring,” the study says. “I Liu says when it comes to teaching experience, teachers notably rely less on office disciplinary referrals once they reach 11 years in the profession.

K-12 118

K-12 Middle School Psychology Classroom Management 118

ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

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.

Classroom Management 129

Classroom Management Private School Cultures Humanities 129

ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Classroom management is a delicate balance. You're always managing kids' emotions, and where they're at that day, and your own emotions, too. I think schools are gonna have a big problem next year, where there's lots of conflicts between students and teachers where a student says, ‘Yeah, I used [AI], but it's still my work.’

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Classroom Management Middle School Government High School 121

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rather than allowing students to learn concepts at their own pace, schools are pressured by high-stakes testing to teach very specific standards by very specific deadlines. Admittedly, my classroom was chaotic most of the time, but at this moment, the chaos felt a bit more controlled as we goofily made up examples of similes and metaphors.

Elementary School 98

Elementary School Psychology Classroom Management Humanities 98

Digital Promise

MARCH 9, 2015

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.

Classroom Management 87

Classroom Management Educational Technology Humanities Research 87

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In order to get to that point, I had to do a lot more than simply teach students the skills to engage in a conflict resolution dialogue. I also recognize that is not the case for the majority of educators in classrooms. Only a few months before these same students came in from recess in tears, shouts, or both nearly every day.

Classroom Management 120

Classroom Management Cultures Education Teaching 120

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

After all, a glimpse into the lives of educators working in schools right now reveals problem after problem with few solutions in sight—not exactly reassuring for someone considering a career in teaching. King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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K-12 Teaching Advocacy Classroom Management 98

ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

After two years of teaching in a pandemic, it was the first time she felt like she finally got to be creative in her lesson design again, using something already motivating her students. Having someone you can bounce ideas off, especially for those classroom management pieces, is the best way to start.

Lesson Plan 94

Lesson Plan Classroom Management Professional Development Social Studies 94

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. Math teachers also started changing their teaching style to give personalized instruction to students with different learning needs.

Advocacy 57

Advocacy Classroom Management Elementary School Cultures 57

Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I know what it feels like to want to be the best teacher you can be and not necessarily have someone that you can access to say, like, “Hey, how do you teach inquiry style learning in a middle school classroom or high school classroom?” How does using video improve teaching practice? So, I’ve been there.

Teaching 98

Teaching Artifacts Research Professional Development 98

ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

During my first two years of teaching, I dealt with many situations that left me feeling downtrodden, broken and totally drained. For example, one day, I was sitting in my classroom in full panic mode as I tried to figure out how to create a graphic organizer for my students’ first essay.

Humanities 118

Humanities Cultures Classroom Management Leadership 118

Digital Promise

AUGUST 22, 2018

In fact, according to a Digital Promise study , 74 percent of districts use more than 26 different education technology products and another 17 percent of districts use over 100. When education technology products don’t play nicely together, educators and administrators pay the price. 10’s data manager.

K-12 48

K-12 Teaching Education Educational Technology 48

ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2023

If you want to feel the soul of a city, go into one of its public school classrooms. I understood this intimately during my time student teaching on the East Coast in Boston. I was insecure about classroom management and wasn’t forthright about my disability with colleagues and students.

Cultures 88

Cultures Classroom Management Humanities Public School 88

ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2022

But when it comes to ethical monitoring—concerned with how school systems set up their digital classroom management tools and teachers use them—we hear far too little. If we truly expect learners to develop those desired digital citizenship skills, educators must first become ethical monitors of their students’ online activity.

Pedagogy 100

Pedagogy Classroom Management Teaching Education 100

ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I started at the beginning, teaching him that any number multiplied by zero is zero. When the pandemic forced us to close our school buildings, we offered distance learning, but we were often teaching to black screens. If there ever has been a time to embrace shared authority in our classrooms, that time is now.

Classroom Management 112

Classroom Management Teaching Cultures Education 112

ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Why are there so few Black men in the teaching profession? Yesterday at a luncheon, another friend, Chris Emdin, [compared] recruiting Black youth to teach to recruiting someone to return to the scene of a crime, a crime committed against themselves. You noted that HBCUs tend to generate a lot of interest in teaching.

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