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Navigating the Two Types of Teacher Preparation Field Experiences
Field experiences are a necessary, and highly beneficial, component of your academic development. In the process of developing knowledge, skills, and dispositions that prepare ... -
Ask An Expert: Should Teachers Give Spelling Tests?
Question: Should students be given weekly spelling tests? Rebecca S. Answer: First of all, thank you for your question. Weekly spelling tests are a ... -
3 Reasons Students Don’t Play More Games in the Classroom
Children are becoming acutely acquainted with mobile technology long before their K-12 classroom years. When they arrive at their first organized school experiences, they ... -
How Mentorship Can Help Teachers Succeed
Just like having good mentors is important to student teaching, as newly hired educator, having a mentor at your school is incredibly important, too. ... -
Top 3 Little-Considered Issues Related to Student Diversity
Schools and colleges tout the buzz word “diversity” when talking about their ideal student populations, but ideals and reality do not always add up. ... -
Here’s how screen time is changing the way kids tell stories
Allison S Henward, University of Hawaii Recently, at a child’s birthday party, I overheard a conversation between parents discussing their concern about “screen time.” ... -
Ask An Expert: Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools
Question: I recently moved from New Jersey to a small town in Louisiana. To my amazement and horror, my children’s elementary school still uses ... -
Understanding the 4 Main Schools of Philosophy: Principle of Idealism
Understanding philosophy is important for educators not only so that they possess an individual philosophy but gain more awareness to the philosophies of their ... -
College Football Obsession: Sending the Wrong Academic Message?
This past weekend, it seemed that every social media newsfeed was full of people cheering on their alma maters or sending shout outs to ... -
Is Sesame Street more important than preschool?
According to a new study produced by Melissa Kearney of the University of Maryland and Phillip Levine of Wellesley College, Sesame Street teaches children just as ...
