Instructors should take the time to ask themselves what they can do differently when students struggle on an assignment. If there are pain points in the courses they are teaching, and students ...
With growing teacher shortages nationwide, particularly in high-need subject areas and underserved communities, educator preparation programs (EPPs) have a big task at hand: prepare more pre-service ...
Uganda joined the rest of the world in celebrating World Teachers’ Day, under the theme: The teachers we need for the education we want: The global imperative to reverse the teacher shortage. My ...
Teacher residency programs are transformative models for preparing educators for the K-12 teaching experience. These clinically-rich, immersive programs combine mentorship, year-long co-teaching in ...
As a deputy head and inclusion manager at an inner-city primary school, my to-do list is ever lengthening, so having enough time for strategic thinking and reflection is rare. Each week I try to plan ...
The principal’s next question was more probing. “Why did you leave your previous school?” “The school wanted me to be a mechanical, or rather, ‘robotic’ teacher,” was the candid reply. “I didn’t feel ...
Being good has never been good enough, there is always room for growth. As a classroom educator, the more I thought about my practice, the more I knew I had to try harder or maybe not harder, but ...
Reflection helped students think more carefully about individual mistakes. But it also reduced how many new problems they attempted and how many new mistakes they could learn from.
It is possible to implement reflective teaching in Mauritius without really having an economic incidence. The implementation of reflective teaching can take the following dimensions: Departmental ...