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8 Strategies Your Teaching More Enjoyable This Year

TeachThought

A few thoughts– Teaching is a lot work. All of the planning and energy busts are followed by something close to a slog or dredge, which itself is followed up by an annoyed kind of fatigue, and then finished as entirely depleted by the end of the school year. July is a beginning.

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A Systematic Approach to Social and Emotional Support

A Principal's Reflections

All of this has led to a dramatic increase in discipline issues and a significant amount of time having to be spent on classroom management and establishing routines. Lesson planning/activities : While Daily Meeting is a great start, SEL should be emphasized across the curriculum.

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Making Headway with Remote and Hybrid Learning

A Principal's Reflections

They shared how teachers got better using technology, reached out more for feedback, collaborated more, and improved classroom management. What are your exemplars of effective remote or hybrid teaching and learning, and why? As each leader presented their views on positive shifts to practice, you could see their pride swell.

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10 Strategies to Strengthen Instruction and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. I still can’t believe how much time and focus there was on how to manage a classroom effectively. When I think back to my training to become a teacher, there were some reasonably consistent norms.

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How Teach for America Crushed My Passion for Teaching

ED Surge

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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I’m a Teacher, Will Artificial Intelligence Help Me?

Digital Promise

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. While AI has come a long way since the 1950s when the term was coined and work on Intelligent Tutoring Systems began, it simply cannot replace a teacher in the classroom.

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How Mentorship Has Kept Me in the Classroom

ED Surge

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. Entering the classroom for the first time, I was filled with hope and passion, believing I could make a positive difference. By the end of that first semester, 10 of my colleagues had already left the program.