ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

on Teachers Pay Teachers,” a popular platform that educators use to buy educational materials from each other. Even if schools have high-quality curricula that can take some lesson-planning off teachers’ shoulders, they can’t use it if they don’t have time or aren’t trained on how to use it.

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Professional Development Lesson Plan Middle School Research 145

ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The federal government has used this to standardize its job descriptions and to help employees identify new roles that might be a match for their talents. Industrial-organizational psychologists and other experts have been doing job and task analysis for decades on behalf of the military and the federal government. Housed in the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Teachers use generative AI to create lesson plans, and any school district employee could use it to help write a work document. That’s why the new guidelines include examples of how to cite the use of generative AI in educational materials, research or work documents. Is AI Your Co-Writer?

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K-12 Lesson Plan Humanities Middle School 105

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. Now that this program is coming to an end, educators wonder what the future will look like without this funding.

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K-12 Charter School Social Studies Government 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2024

Was there a distinct difference in their educators’ qualifications or philosophies? In both schools, they had a lead teacher who kind of did the lesson planning, ran things like circle time. What did you notice about the instruction the children in each program received? Not really.

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Lesson Plan Research Education Government 132

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That shortage has become so desperate at times that state governments have even started letting their employees take paid time off to plug in the holes in missing staff, in an effort to keep schools from shuttering in-person learning. Schools across the country are dealing with a severe teacher shortage.

EdTech 137

EdTech K-12 Lesson Plan Private School 137

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools. Many governments invested in sharing resources for teachers during the pandemic but these were largely confined to the school or regional level.

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EdTech Tutoring Lesson Plan Professional Development 120

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

The commission also proposed a career ladder that would provide classroom teachers with leadership opportunities without pulling them out of the classroom, as well as a rebalancing of the educator workday to include more time for educators to improve their instruction and plan lessons.

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Leadership Teaching Lesson Plan Public School 132

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With political topics as polarizing as they are right now, it is understandable for teachers to want to try to avoid them and just stick to the lesson plan. School leaders report that polarization over major social and political issues interferes with schools’ ability to educate children.

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Lesson Plan Critical Thinking Cultures Teaching 115

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences.

Social Studies 115

Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 115

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

There is clearly still a crucial need for parents and caregivers; educators; and LGBTQ-affirming, medically accurate and culturally responsive curriculum in this equation. Though comprehensive sex education has been stripped from some brick-and-mortar classrooms, lesson plans and digital resources compiled by experts have migrated online.

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Social Justice K-12 Lesson Plan Advocacy 109