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In Elementary School, Many Teachers Have a Shaky Grasp of Math. Can Preparation Programs Change That?

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The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. Student-teachers in graduate school received an average of less than one course credit, or about 14 hours of instructional time, on foundational math content.

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?5 Invisible Barriers Preventing Change in Higher Ed

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A Culture of Smallness Brene Brown, an affective researcher and professor at the University of Houston, identifies vulnerability as the birthplace of innovation. Higher education institutions typically have, what I describe, as a culture of smallness. But making organizational barriers visible is the first step in breaking them down.

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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

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It’s work that pays off, though, Rhoads argues, since it opens the course material to students even when they are sick or unable to attend, and the material can easily be reused over time. Lectures, for example, are not holding up well in some studies.) HyFlex is not the only way to make courses flexible, however.

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