A Principal's Reflections

MAY 21, 2017

See what’s worked for successful entrepreneurs who’ve met their own goals, and find a fit for your continuing professional development. There is joy in innovating, challenging the status quo, marching to the beat of a different drummer, and experiencing success through non-traditional means. So do edupreneurs.

Leadership 230

Leadership Pedagogy Professional Development Critical Thinking 230

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Webinar panelists Stacie Johnson , leader of professional development at Khan Academy, Pat Youngpradit , chief academic officer at Code.org and leader of TeachAI , and Brian Johnsrud , global head of education learning and advocacy at Adobe , each offered unique and valuable perspectives on the intersection of AI and creativity.

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Economics 130

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Black teachers, who’ve long played a role in educating children shut out of the traditional system, will be essential to this transformation. Alongside traditional measures like test scores and student growth, teacher diversity data offers an important signal of school quality but is often difficult to find.

Education 26

Education Pedagogy Tradition Professional Development 26

ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2022

But if you ask Daniel Fung, vice principal and English teacher at the Sham Tseng Catholic School in Hong Kong, he will tell you computational thinking is an entire pedagogy geared toward teaching lifelong problem-solving skills. CT curriculum is not just about coding but rather a pedagogy and mindset.

Pedagogy 97

Pedagogy Professional Development Teaching Tradition 97

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. Just think back to the last time you went to a professional development workshop. It's a pedagogy, it's a framework for helping teachers enact whatever curriculum that they have to work with.

Research 144

Research Teaching Pedagogy Elementary School 144

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

Lam, who began learning to code six years ago, developed his skills at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Master Trainer Program in Boston, an experience sponsored by his school and supported by CoolThink@JC. Now, he hosts professional development workshops and lesson demonstrations for other teachers in Hong Kong.

Pedagogy 105

Pedagogy Professional Development Critical Thinking Teaching 105

ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

This work requires a depth of discipline and perseverance from our students that can at times be difficult to foster within the limits of traditional instruction. The white picket fence, two kids, and the traditional nine-to-five workday are quickly losing their appeal. The American Dream no longer exists as Gen Xers know it to be.

Teaching 107

Teaching Tradition Pedagogy Professional Development 107

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

Social Justice 145

Social Justice Leadership Professional Development Cultures 145

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

What kind of learning games would work for more ordinary teachers, and where would games fit into the traditional curriculum? What is the right alchemy of pedagogy, subject-matter coverage, assessment and teacher professional development that would ultimately see learning games integrated into schools?

EdTech 123

EdTech Pedagogy Professional Development Tradition 123

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.

K-12 130

K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 130

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

We found that the combined effect of tutors' knowledge of both reading development and culturally responsive pedagogy was significantly correlated with students' reading development,” Sodani shared in an email. Teacher candidates at most colleges are not paid when they work in schools as student teachers.

Tutoring 138

Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 138

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts.

Civic Engagement 68

Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

Yet I caution against using a deficit frame that fails to account for other types of learning and skills students acquired during the pandemic, simply because they don’t fit traditional measurement standards or narrow constructs of achievement. Ngounou, Ed.L.D., is the interim president and CEO of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation.

Social Justice 88

Social Justice K-12 Pedagogy Professional Development 88

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Veteran or master teachers like Eckhoff, who often have rated highly under the new teacher evaluation standards and agreed to share their classrooms with aspiring teachers, are advising them on issues from the soft skills teacher candidates need to how to keep professional development useful and relevant once they’re on the job.

Classroom Management 110

Classroom Management Lesson Plan Pedagogy Elementary School 110

Becoming a History Teacher

APRIL 16, 2023

It also lacked an understanding of the pedagogical tradition underpinning the subject. Their day-to-day mentor was not able to induct them into the rich tradition of their subject community. What are the implications of basing beginning teacher development upon generically focused programmes? link] Shulman LS. Whitburn, R.

History 52

History Pedagogy Professional Development Tradition 52

Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Such worries were accompanied by statements such as “There should be a balance between AI and traditional education methods.”

Anthropology 98

Anthropology Humanities Teaching Cultures 98

Living Geography

APRIL 7, 2024

There is a considered critique of a number of concepts and theories in education, as well as some of the traditional ways of 'doing things'. It's a very readable book which belies the scholarship underpinning its arguments - which are set out with admirable clarity.

Geography 52

Geography Teaching Social Science Professional Development 52

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Those circumstances have led to two interesting tensions emerging, which mirror those evoked by the cartoon: A tension between the desire for learning tools and pedagogies that are proven to be effective and those that are recognized as innovative. Take a “learning ecosystem” approach to ed-tech acquisition.

K-12 78

K-12 Pedagogy Library Professional Development 78

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Teachers certainly will have to adjust some of our pedagogy, and extended deadlines might just become a norm, or having more flexibility about how kids are able to complete assignments. But we are living in unprecedented times. Maybe they are going to ease in a little differently than in the past.

Oral History 144

Oral History History High School Middle School 144

Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The manualized approach to professional education is not meant to replace the traditional approach. They can also be used as a professional development tool for schools trying to creating common ground across different trainings. After all, this is a scientific pedagogy so we should question everything!

Psychology 52

Psychology K-12 Pedagogy Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support.

K-12 100

K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 100

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Professional Development Manager. ’ A prime example of this work from 2014 are the texts, lesson plans, and pedagogy shared by educators on Twitter through #FergusonSyllabus.” Where do you see education moving in 2015? Share your thoughts in the comment section below! (To Krista Moroder. Digital Promise Schools.

Education 94

Education Civics Pedagogy Lesson Plan 94

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Tradition 52