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Dear parents: 3 ways AI will show up in your child’s classroom this year

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Leveraging a virtual teaching assistant: Teachers have a big job to do. It’s a job we love but it’s one that is often filled with a lot of tasks outside the core responsibilities of teaching — standing in front of our students, helping them learn.

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Why These Educators Meet Regularly to Align Instruction with Mind, Brain, and Education Research

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As an English as an additional language (EAL) support teacher at NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand, I co-teach in four early elementary classrooms, supporting multilingual students who are developing their academic proficiency in English.

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How Mentorship Has Kept Me in the Classroom

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As the grantee with the most experience in my cohort, I was given the opportunity to transition into a teacher trainer position; I found myself stepping into a new role as a mentor and coach to 14 first-year English teaching assistants.

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Is There a Problem With ‘Mathbots’?

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Most of those teachers taught English or social studies, where the applications of chatbots are more obvious. Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. At the moment, though, precisely what that looks like differs.

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French Startup Lalilo Raises $5.5M to Boost English Literacy in the US

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That question led them to start Lalilo, a web-based program to support early literacy in English and French, in 2016. Lalilo recently won a request for proposal from the government to develop an AI-powered teaching assistant for STEM and literacy. “What if we could better tailor literacy education to meet the needs of learners?”

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Play Is Disappearing From Kindergarten. It’s Hurting Kids.

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Initially ecstatic to start school, Truman was now red in the face from crying while my teaching assistant and I practically pried him off his mother’s leg. We were a few weeks into my first year teaching kindergarten and I had begun to think of my classroom as a warm and inviting space. Can I help you rebuild it?”.

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To Weather The Storms of Higher Education, Remember Why You’re There

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She attended her classes and was a great graduate teaching assistant, teaching introductory classes to a broad array of students. I witnessed the difference it made when she would go translate through the Red Cross for a Hispanic family who spoke no English.

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