Two teacher educators look at how we can keep students in teaching degrees. Reimbursing them for professional placements in schools would be a start.
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As a researcher focussed on African, Afro-Caribbean and Black families’ schooling experiences, I appeal to school staff to understand the importance of the school-family-community partnership.
Childhood wasn’t more ‘innocent’ or ‘natural’ before digital technologies or the pandemic.
The 2022 election campaign has not exactly been a policy fest. And one critical area we have heard very little about is schools.
Teachers who take alternative routes to being certified tend to leave their positions sooner than educators who go through colleges of education, new research shows.
Teaching graduates must have spent time training in schools for the day they take charge of their own classes. But the past two years have laid bare the system’s failings.
Some school districts now accept year-long consent forms in which guardians can consent for children to participate in neighbourhood walks at any time in the school year.
It is important for people who are part of educational institutions to honour the year-round significance of the new National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30.
Considering our relationships to stories about the past and looking at learning as a process of encounter can help Canadians to become better treaty partners.
What Kenya should focus on is providing in-service professional development to improve student learning outcomes.
Improving initial teacher education is a long-term strategy. It won’t achieve the education minister’s goal of getting Australia to the top-performing nations in maths and literacy by 2030.
During 2020, we saw the traditional classroom all but disappear. We can expect education to face other types of disruption. In an uncertain future, teachers need more than classroom-readiness.
Demand is high for teachers with expertise in STEM subjects like maths. But students also deserve expert English, history, civics or geography teachers. Maybe your favourite teacher did an arts degree.
Instilling a positive sense of ethnic and racial identity and belonging can help children learn.
Teachers have never been more appreciated than during COVID-19. But neither expressions of support, nor cheaper degrees will overcome the four big structural challenges facing the profession.
Student teachers need to pass a test to put them in the top 30% of Australia’s literacy and numeracy abilities. This test costs more money than some students have and can be discriminatory.
Our model on an expert career path for top teachers would transform school education, further professionalise learning and lead to students gaining about 18 months of extra learning by age 15.
Decolonized education means working with settler teachers to overcome guilt and find the courage to acknowledge privilege, racism and colonialism to work in partnership for a better future.
As ‘tiny historians of their age,’ children with testimonies of war provide teachers with both historical insight and critical instruction.
In anticipation of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a scholar explains how digital technologies can help close knowledge gaps about the catastrophe that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews.
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Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Dean of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, Griffith University, Griffith University
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Leadership and School Transformation, School of Education, University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle
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Assistant Professor, Education, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Director of Sheffield Institute of Education and Professor of Education, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of Education and Mathematics Education, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor & Head, School of Science & Mathematics, Mauritius Institute of Education
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Senior lecturer, Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning, Rhodes University
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Professor of Education, Penn State
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Chair, Psychology in Education Research Centre, University of York
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Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University