How Teachers Can Support Arab-American Students

Cortez Deacetis

Listen to the interview with Sawsan Jaber (transcript): Sponsored by Fearless Schools and Google’s Applied Digital Skills One November morning in 2015, Sawsan Jaber was in her suburban Illinois classroom preparing for a day of teaching. As an Palestinian-American teacher in a district with an overwhelmingly white teaching staff, Jaber […]

Biology teachers often fail to recognise misconceptions

Cortez Deacetis

(Future) Teachers’ skill to diagnose alternate pupil conceptions. (a) Proportion (%) of effectively identified style of choice conceptions from the preservice teachers, teachers in practical training, and in-service lecturers. (b) Proportion (%) of properly diagnosed style of alternative conceptions from the (future) instructors with out and with experience in teaching […]

New study shows benefits of mindfulness for middle-school teachers

Cortez Deacetis

Credit history: Unsplash/CC0 Public Area Mindfulness education can lessen indicators of anxiousness and melancholy in center-university academics even though boosting their self-compassion and classroom management competencies, according to a new analyze by researchers at Penn Point out and Portland Condition University. “Center-school lecturers have a exceptional window of prospect to […]

Language teachers’ accounts of challenges in two European settings of integration training

Cortez Deacetis

Introduction The present study examines experience in two European settings of adult second language education. In a phenomenographic analysis of teachers’ accounts of experience, we investigate challenges in integration training aimed at labor market integration (e.g. Kosyakova and Sirries, 2017) and social integration (e.g. Laurentsyeva and Venturini, 2017). The analysis […]

Schools are surveying students to improve teaching. But many teachers find the feedback too difficult to act on

Cortez Deacetis

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Education departments have been investing in feedback-based tools to assess school performance. These include student perception surveys, where students provide feedback on the quality of their learning and their experiences in the classroom or at school. The hope is such feedback will provide teachers and other […]