ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University.

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K-12 Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 137

Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

Many parents at my elementary school have shared that their child uses technology better than they do. I, myself, have even struggled with some of the modern methods of basic math taught in the elementary school. With the continuous rush of a traditional school day, many times those opportunities fall by the wayside.

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EdTech Elementary School Pedagogy Project-Based Learning 132

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. Crystal O’Brien, center, plays with her third grade students during free play time in her classroom at Shidler Elementary School in Oklahoma City.

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Elementary School Pedagogy Public School Middle School 144

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. Well, it turns out that strategically constructing the groups like we see in a lot of elementary schools turned out to be a disaster. Curriculum is mandated, pedagogy is professional.

Research 144

Research Teaching Pedagogy Elementary School 144

Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

Teacher specialization, a model in which teachers specialize in certain subjects and teach them to a rotating group of students, has a negative effect on student scores, attendance, and behavior in an elementary school setting, according to a working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Teaching 89

Teaching Elementary School Pedagogy Social Studies 89

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Since math classes progress in a mostly linear way, students have to get fractions to set them up for algebra; and how they do in algebra will likely influence whether they even get to try for advanced courses like calculus, a traditional weed-out metric for lucrative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. isn’t working.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 133

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

American University Pays Tutors American University’s School of Education established the Future Teacher Tutors Program in fall 2020. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. That includes librarians as well. That's become harder to do.

K-12 112

K-12 Pedagogy High School History 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School. We do classroom management really differently than how it’s carried out in the schools,” Pensavalle said. We talk about first looking at your environment, your curriculum and your pedagogy, and make the best choices for your students.

Classroom Management 110

Classroom Management Lesson Plan Pedagogy Elementary School 110

Achieve the Core

AUGUST 24, 2023

I remember being asked this question by a very concerned and anxious parent at the start of the 2021–22 school year. They may not have a current model to rely on when it comes to what a kindergarten or elementary school classroom looks like. But, to contribute and collaborate, they must first be given access to the door.

Elementary School 52

Elementary School Pedagogy Economics Tradition 52

Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe?

Controversial Topics 52

Controversial Topics Psychology Elementary School Pedagogy 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 86

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. What happens is that the academic pedagogy keeps getting pushed down, down, down and quashing what early childhood development is all about.

High School 105

High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 105

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Educators say the message they constantly get from lawmakers is that traditional public schools aren’t worth investing in. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? School board members approved the increase in May. That has translated into significant losses at the local level. Franz said.

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Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 106

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed.

High School 82

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 82

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We as teachers, as a school entity, we are trying to jump back into it and get them back into the practice of having deadlines and learning and having standards and expectations. William Hite , superintendent of Philadelphia’s public schools. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School.

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Oral History History High School Public School 144