Teachers' professional lives can be highly demanding, pressured, stressful and at times, emotionally exhausting. But there's an unspoken demand they suppress their emotions and just get on with it.
U.S. Secretary of Education nominee Miguel Cardona testifies during his confirmation hearing.
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Mindfulness practices may help one examine long-held cultural assumptions, allowing one to better respond to current critical issues such as climate change and systemic racism.
More students are taking algebra II in high school – but many aren’t actually learning it.
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Colleges of education must have increased resources to improve training. They must also address gender-specific issues such as childcare provision, accommodation and sexual harassment.
The fact that teachers in Uganda's rural schools weren't trained in the local language means they can't teach children in their mother tongue and this leads to poor literacy acquisition.
Even with free data and unlimited educational material, online self-guided learning has a number of challenges.
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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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