Student teachers saw certain incidents in their classrooms as a learning process that caused them to act, respond and reflect so they could maintain quality teaching.
Relative to other careers, bright students who were surveyed didn’t see teaching as coming with career challenges.
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Our top-scoring students aren’t choosing to become teachers, and that has flow-on effects for the students who come after them.
Dilapidating infrastructure and poorly trained teachers are just some of the problems plaguing Nigeria’s education system.
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Policy needs to focus on making the teaching profession stable and more appealing. South Africa must ensure its locally trained teachers have more reason to stay in the country.
Students can feel very isolated when studying through a distance education programme.
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Distance education for teacher training has its problems. Improved support can address these issues - but some of it should come from students themselves.
Technology can be integrated into effective teaching and learning of physics at secondary schools in Mauritius.
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Gathering data and testing teachers’ knowledge allows researchers to develop scientifically-grounded advice for teacher education institutions.
Thousands of copper nails representing thousands of Indigenous children who died in Canada’s residential schools were hammered into the Reconciliation Pole before its raising at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., on April 1, 2017.
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Many Canadian teachers worry about how to incorporate Indigenous content into the classroom. For one sociology professor, finding Indigenous mentorship was richly rewarding.
A school teacher, leads a class at the Obama Primary School in Kenya.
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Child refugees need to have access to quality language programs so they have a chance at doing well at school - and teachers also need to be given appropriate training.
Having good, well-trained teachers in their early lives benefits children enormously.
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In both the global North and South, economics tends to be taught with micro- and macroeconomic models that are disconnected from sociopolitical realities. We suggest new ways of teaching economics.