Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

The goal of AI is to create machines that can mimic human capabilities. In this post, we will focus on one example of an AI system that can help teachers manage their workload and the importance of engaging teachers in the design of AI systems. Example: A Digital Assistant for The Classroom.

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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.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Classroom management stems from good instruction. Banning and blocking does absolutely nothing to teach students about inappropriate or untimely mobile phone usage because it removes the decision-making locus from students to educators. If so, are we just punishing students for how our human brains work? Joe Pemberton.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

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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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

Two main factors can have a significant impact on a teacher’s emotional engagement at work: The quality of their relationships with students Student behaviors and classroom management. It makes me feel more approachable and human when I share my life experiences with them. Student Behaviors and Classroom Management.

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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.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

Think of AI products as good rough drafts — to reach the level of quality we want for our classrooms, these drafts need your human touch to fine-tune them. So teaching them how to do this well while they are in school is time well spent. Let’s go. The Tools 1. MagicSchool magicschool.ai Video is currently not available.

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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. A “self-care” practice can feel counter to the ethos of the teaching profession. Second, it is difficult to implement.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

In January, the school district hired Roberts and about two dozen other “ floaters” as part of a broader effort to improve the quality of substitute teaching and alleviate a staffing crunch that grew dire during this winter’s Covid-19 surge. Why don’t people who live there, teach there? Credit: Image provided by Nathan Roberts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

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. He went into teaching with the goal of building strong relationships with students of color.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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 In other words, good classroom management skills work. Teaching them to build their attention spans and focus is much harder.

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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 now we have more humane guidelines around that. And we're talking about that in my own Center for Teaching Excellence right now.

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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.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 9, 2015

A few examples: Behavior research can be used to enhance classroom management tools. Their Addimal Adventure App, which teaches effective math strategies, is based on cognitive science research on young children’s mathematical development. Some organizations like GlassLab are doing just that.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As schools across the South grapple with vacancies, many turn to those without teaching certificates or formal training to serve students. And then there’s Florida, where military veterans without a bachelor’s degree can teach for up to five years using temporary certificates. For us, it’s about the passion, not about the paper.”.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2024

Do you feel like our current approach to teaching and learning is working for either teachers or students? I hope individuals, teaching teams, schools, and districts will use this tool to reflect, discuss, and take action. By teaming up with tech, we can provide the perfect blend of human touch and digital dexterity in the classroom.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Teacher self-efficacy is grounded in instructional confidence This Edutopia article provides the research-based importance of teacher confidence: “Teachers’ high self-efficacy [are associated] with better classroom management, closer relationships with students, and high-quality lessons.” Why is this key to improving school culture ?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Thompson, 69, came out of retirement to teach English after learning that Jackson Public Schools were looking for help in local classrooms. Thompson teaches three 90-minute periods per day — equal to six classes. Teaching is a ministry. You teach because you are interested in helping children be the best they can be.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: 3. Successful classroom leadership requires instructors specific to career and technical education to add classroom management and teaching strategies to their technical expertise. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2016

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. We needed to change how we’re teaching math, especially for our English-learners, so that we were paying attention to language development and communication skills.”. Weekly Update.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific. Pick Content-Focused Classroom Décor Wall Maps – Hang the largest-size wall maps you can fit, depending on what you teach. Travel or Hobbies – Find a way to highlight your outside hobbies to humanize yourself.

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Letters and Ink Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

Creating a set of classroom expectations for your students is more challenging than it seems at first. When I first started out teaching, I tried to stick to the same rules my own teachers had for me in high school. I post mine: Next to my door In the back of the classroom On the home page of my LMS On my daily slide deck 3.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Anthony Boccia, a newly hired special education teacher at Valley High, has three years to complete earn an official teaching license before the district revokes his provisional license. Working long hours, Boccia — known at Valley High as Mr. Tony — is learning how to run his classroom via trial and error, one day at a time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2018

I have worked in the field of teacher preparation for over a decade, and arming teachers would change the work of teaching even more fundamentally than many may realize. 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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