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In Elementary School, Many Teachers Have a Shaky Grasp of Math. Can Preparation Programs Change That?

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Other assessments such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam have also indicated declining math abilities. The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. That has consequences.

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The Power of Collaboration

A Principal's Reflections

In a previous post , I shared how members of the 4th-grade team at Red Cliffs Elementary School in the Juab School district collaborated to create a personalized experience that combined choice and data to differentiate. We think with this approach to teaching; we are seeing the students thrive in any setting.

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Reflective Learning as the New Normal

A Principal's Reflections

The quest to improve pedagogy, and in turn learner outcomes, is a focus of many schools. The key to future-proofing education is to empower students to not only think, but to apply their thinking in relevant ways to demonstrate what has been learned. Maybe success lies in taking a more detailed look at daily practice.

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Could Play Boost Students’ Math Performance?

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For instance, play in early education reinforces the development of social-emotional skills and critical thinking. These days, almost every math curriculum in early childhood and elementary school includes games, usually a board or dice game, says Yvonne Liu-Constant, a practitioner specialist for Project Zero.

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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. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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Math Instruction Isn’t Working. Could Better Teacher Training Help?

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It takes critical thinking and a sense for the numbers to even understand how or why a student’s approach might be wrong, Barclay says. It’s common for her to hear, “Oh, you know, I decided to be an elementary school teacher because I don't want to teach math.” Barclay says. But that wasn’t immediately clear.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

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In high school, I participated in Teacher Cadets , a program that allows high school students to explore the education field as a possible career, in part by having them go into local elementary and middle schools and by serving and observing in the field. But I did enjoy teaching. I was always interested in history.

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