Dec
16
A natural curiosity and lifelong love of learning will serve you well when exploring new teacher training ideas and professional development to improve your students’ learning outcomes. Ongoing self-improvement keeps you updated on recent research, strategies, best practices, and emerging teaching industry trends. It connects you with like-minded peers, makes...
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Dec
06
Teachers often cite their lifelong love for learning and desire to make a difference as top reasons for getting into teaching. Understanding that education doesn't stop after their degree, many new teachers search for advice on areas of improvement for teachers in their first years on the job. Professional development...
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Nov
30
Teachers understand how different techniques or approaches with the same subject matter can affect a lesson's impact on students. The same is true when teachers become the students in their ongoing learning. For many, transitioning from traditional methods to a new, small-dose approach can improve the effects of professional development...
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Nov
22
The COVID-19 pandemic marked a distinctive pivot point in how schools, teachers, and students were forced to approach remote learning—with some districts more prepared than others to manage the stark transition. As e-learning sessions, distance-learning days, and flipped classrooms remain common in many schools, how to increase student engagement in...
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Nov
14
Student engagement is a primary and critical component of successful teaching and learning. Student disengagement can significantly hinder a lesson’s effectiveness, but an engaged pupil performs better academically and grasps new material faster than distracted or disengaged peers. Efficiently and effectively measuring student engagement levels can help teachers recognize when...
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Nov
09
Each year, teachers across the country are given well-researched and evidence-based instructional strategies in resources aimed at helping them reflect and improve upon teaching and assessment practices. I am willing to bet what happens next falls in one of two possible categories. Either time is set aside at institute days...
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Nov
04
Almost everyone has a teacher from their childhood they still remember fondly as an adult—one who made a lasting impact or influenced how they see the world beyond the walls of the classroom. No matter which grade you teach, positive relationships between you and your students can factor into student...
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Oct
28
As teachers well know, activities to engage students in the classroom are key to learning success. That said, student engagement can be hard to attain, especially when students can't see how the lesson's subject applies to their lives. For those looking for some student engagement strategies to help maintain their...
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Oct
28
Teachers know that learning is a lifelong endeavor. Especially in the field of education, there is always something new and exciting in the emerging research about brain development, pedagogical techniques, and the evolving needs of our students in a changing world. Continuing education is a requirement for teachers but also...
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Oct
17
According to an EdWeek Research Center survey of 630 teachers across the country, low student engagement is the most widespread problem teachers identified as an impediment to student success. While student engagement has long been at the forefront of conversations regarding student success, challenges in student engagement have been exacerbated...
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