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

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Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years. Initially, she claims, there was pushback.

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New Teachers Need More Support. Here's an Easy Way to Help

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Yet, many of the traditional strategies employed, while absolutely essential to professional growth, can be cumbersome and disruptive for teachers, their students and even those responsible for offering support. School-wide PD often feels disconnected from a new teacher’s work.

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How can we improve early science education? New report offers clues

The Hechinger Report

Researchers sifted through more than two dozen studies of programs that aimed to improve science teaching from pre-K through elementary school, and found several key strategies that enhanced teacher content knowledge, boosted the quality of science lessons and led to better student outcomes in science.

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Fighting Teacher Stress

The Hechinger Report

A few years ago, Amy Lopes, a veteran fifth-grade teacher in Providence, Rhode Island, learned that teachers at her school could try a mindfulness and yoga training along with their students. I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School.

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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

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As part of this program at Morris County Vocational School, in New Jersey, where I teach, students engage in research about key issues at our school and learn how to plan effective professional development to support the staff. Earlier this year, I was facilitating a series of three lessons about classroom management.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

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Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. I also teach media literacy.

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What should new teachers know before they set foot in a classroom?

The Hechinger Report

Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School. We do classroom management really differently than how it’s carried out in the schools,” Pensavalle said. Because if you can engage your students, you’re going to have less classroom management problems,” Pensavalle said.