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What teachers want from AI

The Hechinger Report

An AI tutor that helps middle and high schoolers become better writers. Over five weeks this spring, about 300 people – teachers, school and district leaders, higher ed faculty, education consultants and AI researchers – came together to learn how to use AI and develop their own basic AI tools and resources. Playlab.ai

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Schools call parents ?co-teachers,? but we have no idea what we?re doing

The Hechinger Report

I had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing. Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. I figure the educational videos she watches while I work are good enough to cover science and social studies for now.

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TEACHER VOICE: Educators need more resources, skills and partnerships to bring the world into their classrooms

The Hechinger Report

DoDEA educators went through a combined total of 2 million hours of professional learning and 800,000 hours of focused collaboration during the implementation of the system’s College and Career Ready Standards that began with PK-5 mathematics in the 2015-16 school year and were completed with PK-5 social studies in 2021-22.

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Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards

The Hechinger Report

Schools of education typically require students earning a degree in elementary education to take regular arts and science classes – such English literature, social studies, math, fine arts, and even physical education – as well as a “methods” class that teaches them how to present the material and to anticipate the common errors students make.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.