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Too many of our students complete school and are ill-prepared to be successful in their futures. Educators are preparing students for obsolete futures. We must ensure that we reduce learning gaps and increase the achievement options for more students – thus enhancing the future for everyone.
The new teacher down the hall is very young, very nice, very qualified and the students and principal approve of her. You’ve welcomed her with open arms and you think someday she’ll make a great educator. But you know the route to someday is a tough one. You know she’s going to need help, and you want to reach out to her without stepping on her toes. You want to be the kind of teaching neighbor you wish you’d had when you had your first classroom, but you don’t want to smother her, either.
A 3-part series to help teachers understand the complexities of ADHD and LDs, how to engage these students, and how to create a system of support so they can succeed in your classroom and beyond.
Senior Research Analyst for the Congressional Black Caucus, Ivory Toldson, Ph.D. presents a two-part professional series that reviews research-based methods to help black males achieve academic success and educators understand and eliminate school violence.
The declining graduation rate of black males is a national problem and getting worse. The current high school graduation rate for black males hovers around the 50% mark according to the Open Society Institute’s Campaign for Black Male Achievement. This trend can be reversed with the commitment of educators who can influence these young men and encourage them to succeed.
Currently, more than one third of all students from 5th-12th grade report gang activity at their schools. Breaking Barriers: Reducing Gang Violence, Improving Security and Creating a Culture of Learning in Schools will highlight original analyses of nearly 4,600 students who completed the National Crime Victimization Study – School Crime Supplement. From that study educators will learn ways to guide students away from gang violence and towards academic success.
Classroom Management Tips addresses classroom management concerns and gives you dozens of strategies to improve lessons and eliminate disruption that you can apply to your classroom situation immediately.
Some people outside education might think school is simply teachers teaching and students learning. Shame on them. We know that today’s learning experience involves much more than that. To truly excel in academics, students need empowered administrators, active community members, and supportive parents.
The student-teacher relationship is just one component of student success. We need to bring the other two on board.
Cyberbullying is not a trend that is going to disappear any time soon. As personal computers, cell phones, and the Internet become more popular, the opportunity for teens and preteens to pick on each other via these channels increases. It’s important to understand why students cyberbully each other and know how to respond when you find about these situations going on among your students. And it’s essential to know how to approach this subject with your students and help prevent cyberbullying from occurring in the first place.
Teachers have taken courses in classroom management, but they are often unprepared for the “parent management” part of their jobs. As parents become more demanding, teachers become more stressed, even to the point of leaving the profession. Clear and frequent communication with parents before problems arise is key, and developing a skill set to work with parents can help teachers feel more confident and competent in dealing with this growing aspect of their jobs.
While there are many discipline programs principals can implement, there are general strategies that she can adopt to ensure that the disciplinary action is fair and a learning experience for both the student and the teacher. Dealing with Student Discipline focuses on specific strategies to deal with students, teachers and parents.
Every teacher has experienced it at one time or another, most likely on a daily basis. When you ask students an open-ended question that requires critical thinking the students aren’t waving their hands in the air or blurting out answers. Instead, they’re looking at you with blank stares. The more you encourage your students to think, the more confused the students become and their stare just intensifies.
You are not alone dealing with the blank stare. It’s not something new either; students have been giving teachers that empty look since teachers began asking them to think for themselves.
It’s discouraging when students are constantly off-task, disruptive, and problematic in the classroom.
We want to teach, and students don’t always make it that easy to do so. We all know that feeling.
According to Dr. Allen Mendler, author and expert on student discipline, students really do want to learn. It’s just a matter of tapping into their desire to learn and encouraging them to stay on task.
The amount of electronic data generated from one school day could put a whole team of accountants to work for a week. With computer hackers out there attempting to steal this data, the question is: “How do I protect my students, colleagues, family and personal information when handling electronic data?”
Three New Jersey high school students changed grades in their school’s computer system after hacking it from their homes and even from within the school.
These examples are recent, real and unfortunately not that uncommon. Inside the School is presenting an online seminar to show administrators how to prevent cyber crime from impacting the computers and data that educators and students use.
College is an important life step. And it becomes more important each year as the knowledge economy gets more and more competitive. At the same time, demographic trends are making college admissions more and more competitive. For some students, choosing and getting accepted to their college of choice is easy. Some may go to the school their parents went to. Some may choose a school because they grew up cheering for its athletic teams.
A new school year brings a new crop of students, new rules and laws to implement, maybe new technology to introduce and probably the most important new commodity you will have – a new teacher. You were just so relieved to find a qualified candidate you forgot that was only the first step in the new hire’s long journey.
You want this teacher to feel welcome, exceed your expectations and become a long-term member of your academic community. Research suggests that up to 50% of new teachers leave the profession during the first five years. Teachers who are hired, and then supported in their jobs through induction programs not only provide better teaching, but also may stay in the profession longer.
When adolescent girls are socially aggressive, they may use gossip, rumor spreading, peer manipulation, and eye rolling as a means of damaging another girl’s self-esteem and/or her relationship with others. Being victimized is associated with a number of outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
Middle school students can present a challenge in terms of attention and behavior. Teachers often struggle to keep students in line and on task. In order for teachers to have control of their classroom, they must understand what issues their students face at this time in their lives and use techniques to get them involved in classroom learning and activities.
Teaching is a two-way process. No matter how great a teacher you are, it doesn’t matter unless your students are actually showing up for class and being engaged in the material. You can’t help a student who’s not there. Therefore, one of the biggest challenges facing teachers is getting students motivated about school. Motivated students show up for school consistently and don’t have as high of a risk of dropping out all together.
H1N1 virus, Gulf Coast hurricanes, earthquakes, winter blizzards, West Coast fires, tsunamis, and SARs are just some of the unpredictable events that have disrupted learning around the nation. No one knows when a natural disaster or a disease outbreak will happen. The only thing we can do is to prepare for the worst and help our students learn with the best options we can find.
As you know, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, ensures that student data will be kept confidential. Student records are more than just the last quiz grade; they deal with students on the free or reduced-price lunch program, the students’ address, and the number of siblings a student has.
No matter how trivial the data and regardless of whether it’s electronic or hand-written, student records are protected by law.
You know special education is an issue for every teacher. Your regular ed teachers are part of the team, too, and it’s impossible to comply with the law if they’re not performing their roles effectively. Do they know all they should? Do they have a solid grounding in the principles, practices and laws relating to special ed students? Are they able to act in the best interests of students, families, your school and your school district?
Administrators and teachers have most likely taken courses in child development, psychology, understanding emotional needs and motivating students. But let’s face it – there is little or no training in the teacher hiring process. Strategies to Improve Teacher Hiring changes that. This online seminar will help you sort through the stack of candidates and select the right person.
Strategies to Improve Teacher Hiring will help you decide what skills a successful teaching candidate should have, develop the right questions to ask, understand how to evaluate answers, find the right applicants and much more.
When teachers attempt to bring up new content, they can be met with groans, excuses, pointless requests, requests to go to the bathroom, and so on. Inside the School’s online seminar Teaching Content Outrageously will review strategies and ideas teachers can apply to their lesson plans that will put a stop to the time wasting and non-engagement.
Presenter Stanley Pogrow, Ed.D., believes that when teachers apply their imagination to teaching, students will apply their imagination to learning. He will review tips on the best way teachers can start developing outrageous lesson plans, apply the best of conventional and outrageous teaching and gather the courage to attempt at least one outrageous lesson.
All new teachers need support. The first year of teaching can be described as a “trial by fire.” Educators in their second year are trying new approaches, but mostly, still learning their craft. Statistics show that 50% of educators leave the profession by their fifth year, so there are definitely strong challenges in the third and fourth years.
Social networking sites are now mainstream for students and many educators are not willing to make the adjustments to connect with students at the digital level. Do not fight the new world of social networking, but use it as an opportunity to reach out and connect with current and future students. Inside the School’s seminar will show you ways to use the many new and exciting educational technologies.
The quality of schools as a workplace, the individual job satisfaction and the personal health of every staff member are central to the success of schools and students. However, the experience adults are having at school is mostly overlooked and marginalized. Inside the School’s seminar, Ways to Improve Staff Culture to Benefit Teaching and Learning puts the focus on educators and administrators and discusses strategies to increase teacher satisfaction.
School districts receive hundreds of applications for a limited number of job openings. Yet, retaining quality teachers is a top priority for administrators who want to build a quality faculty. Administrators face constant criticism over teacher retention and hiring. Parents are vocal if teacher turnover is high. And hiring new teachers isn’t cheap. New teachers need training in the school district’s curriculum and mentoring new hires takes time from everyone’s schedule.
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