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Big Deals—Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee, AI Tackles Campus Safety, and Stanford Offers Online Math

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Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Chambers of commerce across 27 states will host in-person contests in their communities this school year. .” The deadline to enter is January 8, 2024.

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How Online PD Eased A New York District’s Transition to Remote Learning

Edsurge

We did a full rollout of OTIS for the 2018-2019 school year, and now we have around 400 teachers and teaching assistants on the platform. Research for Better Teaching. We had a middle school teacher create a course for incorporating Google Drawings in lesson plans and upload it to OTIS.

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What Does It Mean to Work Like a Teaching Resident? A Look Into NYU’s Digital Pilot Program

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Ariana Garcia doesn’t take a break as she goes from tutoring a small group of students to teaching a social studies class at the Great Oak Charter middle school in New York City. Next year, I just want to teach,” Garcia exasperatedly tells EdSurge.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

Edsurge

Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated? Reed: This is a followup to Patrick.

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Learning Assistantships

Scholarly Teacher

An examination of middle school organizational structures in the United States and Australia. Benefits of a comprehensive undergraduate teaching assistant Program. Ellerbrock, C., Falbe, K., & Pomykal Franz, D. Education Sciences, 8 (4), 168. link] Goff, C., & Lahme, B.

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Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage

Cult of Pedagogy

” After extensive research, she decided that the path she wanted to pursue for her state was Educators Rising, which gets young people started on a path to teaching as early as middle school. “It takes years to be a great teacher,” Eckert says.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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He hopes AI bots—such as his most well-known, a virtual teaching assistant named Jill Watson —may help to ease the entrenched tensions that make education such a “ wicked problem ” to solve. Goel has already helped to build such tools for use in his own classroom and worldwide through collaborations with the Smithsonian Institution.