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Teaching Standards

Appreciate Teachers Today, Tomorrow and This Year

Jonah Edelman | Posted 05.08.2013 | Impact
Read More: Education, Common Core, Teachers, Common Core State Standards, Teacher Appreciation Day, Teaching Standards, Impact News
Jonah Edelman

I love that we have a day to recognize Mrs. Holland and the countless teachers like her. But the day also concerns me a little: we spend one day thanking teachers for caring for our nation's children, but we don't always expend the same energy thinking about how to support them as professionals.

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Teachers Must Adapt To New Evaluation Models Where Tenure Does Not Protect

AP | JULIE CARR SMYTH | Posted 10.24.2012 | Home
Read More: Teaching-Quality, Sevugan Studentsfirst, Teacher Tenure, Education, Teacher Evaluations, Video, No Child Left Behind, Studentsfirst, Race to the Top, Tenure, Ohio Schools, Teachers, Teacher Ratings, Teaching Standards, Home News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Ohio's new teacher evaluation system kicks in starting next year, teacher Tammy Schmidt may be joining her third-grade stu...

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The Case for Design Thinking in Education

Christine Nasserghodsi | Posted 09.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Training Teachers, Design Thinking Teaching Strategy, Education, Design Thinking Education, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Methods, Alternative Teaching Strategies, Education Teachers, Teaching Standards, Home News
Christine Nasserghodsi

The problem seems evident in the language. We 'adopt' programs. We 'purchase' materials. We 'integrate' technology. We even 'train' teachers. For all of the changing programs referenced, how many teachers actually changed their practice?

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Another Health Care and Education Discussion

Brian Crosby | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Testing, Education, Student Test Scores, Educational Testing, Teaching Standards, High School Evaluations, Home News
Brian Crosby

We too often oversimplify important, complex issues in education and rely on testing in ways it wasn't designed to be used by people that don't really understand that.

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