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posted by: Melissa
| October 12, 2012, 03:33 pm
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In our effort to help you grow as an educator, we've found some online professional development opportunities that you may want to check out. Some have fees associated but others don't.
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posted by: Alix
| October 12, 2012, 09:07 am
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Welcome to the Association of American Educators' online biweekly publication, Reform Matters. This education reform-focused publication features both original AAE content and a compilation of the latest news from the growing education reform community.
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posted by: Ruthie
| October 11, 2012, 04:15 pm
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Complaints from students of "boredom" are not new to teachers. However, according to Education Week's article, "Studies Link Students' Boredom to Stress," recent research proves "boredom" is actually a form of stress.
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posted by: Melissa
| October 10, 2012, 10:57 am
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Let’s face it, writing is important. It is a skill that is necessary in nearly every field, yet our students often feel that writing is something that they don’t need to know how to do. They don’t see how their language arts classes will correlate to their careers in medicine, technology, or business. While we as teachers understand the importance of this skill, this lack of buy-in on the part of students’ shows that we’re not doing all we can to communicate this to them.
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posted by: Alix
| October 09, 2012, 04:12 pm
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An interesting article ran early last month in USA Today called "More Teachers Green in the Classroom." The story highlights a recent study by Richard Ingersoll at the University of Pennsylvania that shows attrition rates for first-year teachers have risen from about 10% to 13%, leaving a constant demand for new teachers who are usually, unsurprisingly, inexperienced. In fact, in the 2007-08 school year, there is a more than threefold increase in the number of inexperienced teachers. In contrast, 20 years prior, the biggest group of teachers had 15 years of experience. In the most recent data, the 2007-08 school year, the experience term for the largest group of teachers is one year.
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