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Learning to teach from naughty avatars

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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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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects. In the 2011-12 school year, fewer than 7 percent of the state’s new teachers – roughly 1,600 – didn’t have a certification. Credit: AP Photo/Vasha Hunt.

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Is Student Absenteeism a Growing Problem at Colleges, Too?

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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. Is absenteeism a problem in college as well as at the K-12 level? And now we have more humane guidelines around that.

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TEACHER VOICE: Why that chatty student driving you nuts could become president of the United States

The Hechinger Report

It’s an ironic twist: The very behaviors that educators often work to suppress in the classroom may be critical to students’ success in the workforce. How can classroom teachers balance their roles in preparing students to meet the interpersonal and leadership demands of the new economy with classroom management?

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A weekly meetup aims to keep black male teachers in the classroom

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Leave this field empty if you're human: Black male teachers are often asked to mentor or motivate students, particularly male of students of color, who their white colleagues may have trouble reaching. Classroom management, Bradley said later in an interview, is a universal challenge for new teachers. Choose as many as you like.

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3 studies argue against fidget spinners in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation Assigning them active classroom jobs, such as being the door opener, can help too. In other words, good classroom management skills work.

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Three ways to turn schools into safe learning environments for LBGTQ students in post-Orlando America

The Hechinger Report

As an educational leader in your community, you are in a unique position to mitigate against the harmful effects of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policy proposals while promoting acceptance, compassion, and humanity. Finally, the practices of teaching and classroom management have never been more important.

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