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What Does it Mean to be a Teacher Educator in Today’s Rapidly Changing World?

By Natalie Pemberton posted 2 days ago
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What Does it Mean to be a Teacher Educator in Today’s Rapidly Changing World? by Adrian D. Martin, Ph.D. Dr. Martin wrote the article “ Teacher Educator Identity as a Relational Ontology: An Inquiry of the Entangled Self ” in the latest quarterly issue of The Educational Forum. The article is available free in the month of April. Those of us who work in the teaching profession often focus on our engagement with students. We think about how students interact with us, how they interact with each other, and how this supports their learning. It might be fair to say that the central (and perhaps most important) ...
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Real World Impact: Lessons Learned Through Studying an Early Warning Dropout Prevention Program in Washington State High Schools

By Natalie Pemberton posted 7 days ago
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Real World Impact: Lessons Learned Through Studying an Early Warning Dropout Prevention Program in Washington State High Schools by Dr. David Knight and Dr. Julia Duncheon What is the role of university researchers in improving public education systems? As members of an applied field, effective education scholars explore beyond their labs and university campuses. The idea that educational research should impact policy and practice, and that researchers can partner with practitioners to facilitate this work, is not new. Yet, ongoing collaborative work poses new challenges, and education researchers have an important role to play ...
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In Pursuit of Equity for Multilingual Students in Mathematics: What Do Teachers Need Support In?

By Michelle Melani posted 22 days ago
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In Pursuit of Equity for Multilingual Students in Mathemetics: What Do Teachers Need Support In? by Am elia Q. Rivera and Samantha A. Marshall As school bells ring across the country, classrooms are filled with children eager to learn. Unfortunately, not every student will have equitable opportunities to learn, particularly when students’ native ways of speaking don’t align with the language of instruction. Teacher professional development to effectively support multilingual students is rarely a priority, especially in math classrooms where common phrases like “math is a universal language,” oversimplify ...
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Smart Is a Costume That Not Everyone Is Allowed to Wear

By Julia Lewis posted 02-01-2024
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Smart Is a Costume That Not Everyone Is Allowed to Wear: A dis/abled educator’s reflections on how whiteness and ableism shape our expectations by Autumn Wilke How do you recognize and define smartness? Who decides what a smart student looks, sounds, and acts like in educational settings? I have worked in higher education since 2009 and the bulk of my professional experience has been in offices supporting academic success or advancing access for students with dis/abilities. These roles, along with my own identity and experiences as a dis/abled learner and educator have often led to me questioning the expected, ...
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Implementation of Social Inclusion to Support Refugee Students’ Well-Being in Victoria, Australia: A Study of School Reports and Policies

By Julia Lewis posted 01-04-2024
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Implementation of Social Inclusion to Support Refugee Students’ Well-Being in Victoria, Australia: A Study of School Reports and Policies by Huu Loc Nguyen and Ahmed Bawa Kuyini Refugees leave their home countries to seek safety and escape from wars, political and religious oppressions. Embarking on an odyssey of finding a better place full of challenges and uncertainties, they bring with them families and their children. To the young people’ eyes, it is a journey of changes, disruption, adaptation, fitting in, and finding a sense of belonging in their new “home.” In this journey, the question of “where do I belong” comes naturally to many refugee ...
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Social Justice Leadership: The Backbone in Inquiry-Based and Transformative Education

By Julia Lewis posted 12-21-2023
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Social Justice Leadership: The Backbone in Inquiry-Based and Transformative Education by Lucijan Jović As Nelson Mandella once said, “education is the most powerful weapon with which we can use to change the world.” Schools are a place where students are prepared for post-secondary education and the workforce. In addition, schools serve as a place where students craft their identities. Rich learning fuels students’ intrinsic motivation to become proficient readers, writers, speakers, and critical thinkers. The goal is to foster civic and engaged individuals who will not only make positive contributions to society but ...
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Bouncing Forward in Tough Times: Strategies of Resilient Teachers During the Pandemic

By Phil Kitchel posted 11-09-2023
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By Sharon McDonough and Narelle Lemon Dr. McDonough is a researcher in teacher education with advanced disciplinary knowledge of sociocultural theories of teacher emotion, resilience, and wellbeing. Sharon brings these to explore how best to prepare and support teachers for entry into the profession, how to support the professional learning of teachers and teacher educators across their careers, and how to support wellbeing in education and in community. Sharon’s research expertise lies in creative research methods, self-study, and phenomenology. Dr. Lemon is a Professor and Vice-Chancellor Professoriate Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University, ...
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The Teacher Advocate Convo Special

By Phil Kitchel posted 10-31-2023
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KDP Convo 2023 starts Thursday! If you’re joining us in St. Louis this week, we can’t wait to see you, but even if you can’t be there, you can still review our list of great Speakers , follow along on the Schedule of Events , and follow updates on Instagra m , Faceboo k , Thread s , X (formerly Twitter), and YouTub e . This week’s special Teacher Advocate article is a small collection of archival articles on just a few of the topics our Convo presenters will be discussing this week in our 67 concurrent learning sessions. Be the Thermostat: How Teachers’ ...
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Words, Comments, and Perceptions Matter: Teachers’ Reactions to Misaligned Portrayals in the Media and Public

By Phil Kitchel posted 10-02-2023
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By Erin Nerlino Erin wrote the article “From Heroes to Scapegoats: Teacher Perceptions of the Media and Public’s Portrayal of Teachers during COVID-10” in the latest quarterly issue of The Educational Forum. The article is available free in the month of October . It was April 2021, amidst arguably the strangest year of teaching in the profession’s history, and I was sitting in my classroom after school one day, wracking my brain about how I might attempt to review with my 11th grade AP English Language and Composition students for their upcoming AP exam. With some students Zooming into class remotely and others in person, I was chained to my computer ...
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7 Tips (and Lots of Links) for Organizing Your Classroom and Staying Sane

By Phil Kitchel posted 09-12-2023
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By Joyce Wilson Teaching is a challenging profession, especially if you’re a new teacher. Fortunately, you can implement strategies to stay organized, focused, and effective in your teaching career. I’m going to share seven practical tips that can help you keep up. 1. Meet individual needs. The first step to staying organized as a teacher is to keep up with individual student needs and progress. This requires you to set up a system for tracking and monitoring individual student progress . You can use a grading system or a student monitoring tool to monitor individual student progress throughout the school year. By doing this, you’ll be able to identify ...
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The Teacher Advocate Back-to-School Special

By Phil Kitchel posted 09-05-2023
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The Teacher Advocate has more than 100 searchable articles on everyday topics that will always be relevant to new and returning teachers. Here are some examples of our best to give you a hand, whether you’re new to the classroom or just starting a new year! Lead to Teach: 4 Ways to Build a Positive Learning Environment By Karyn Miller “What if my students won’t listen to me? What if they won’t follow my rules?” These and other classroom management concerns are often a source of anxiety for new teachers. Whether you are a new teacher, or someone who has been in the classroom for years, the reality is that creating an environment for learning is hard ...
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Summer Memoir: Teaching “As It Is and How [We Think] It Ought to Be”

By Phil Kitchel posted 09-04-2023
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By Carl Grant and Alexandra Allweisss In our article, “ 'Going for Broke': Working with Teacher Candidates to Bring about Intersectional Socially Just Teaching,” in the current issue of The Educational Forum (available free in September), we share our reflections on the current moment and what it might look like to engage collectively to teach in ways that build toward the world as “it ought to be,” through a framework of intersectional social justice and following James Baldwin’s (1963) call for educators to “go for broke.” In summer 2021, the two of us had regular conversations about our experiences as teacher educators in the ongoing wake of ...
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Why Do We Need Hip-Hop Pedagogy in Teacher Education Now?

By Phil Kitchel posted 08-07-2023
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By Lin Wu The author wrote the article “Enacting Hip-Hop Pedagogy for Joy and Justice” in Volume 87, Issue 3 of KDP’s The Educational Forum . It is available free in the month of August. Six years after President Barack Obama left the White House, many states are actively censoring the teaching of historical truth in their K–16 institutions. The white backlash against racial progress is disturbing yet not surprising, given the racist foundations of the United States. Teacher educators who genuinely care for the profession’s sustainability are standing at the crossroads of succumbing to neofascist politics and taking up the battle against white supremacy. ...
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The Resistances Possible When School Subject Areas Talk to Each Other

By Phil Kitchel posted 07-20-2023
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By Kyle L. Chong and Sheila M. Orr The authors collaborated on the article “Toward an Antiracist Pedagogy of Humanizing Co-creatorship in Teacher Education,” in Volume 87, Issue 3, of KDP’s The Educational Forum . It is available free in the month of July. Often, future teachers learn to be teachers “of” something—a secondary mathematics teacher, or an English-language educator (like we were). And, honestly, that makes a lot of sense. We want all children to be getting the best education they deserve, from people who really know their stuff. However, one policy trend we’ve recently noticed is that legislatures are taking away teachers’ decision-making ...
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Secondary Teachers, Your Students Can Do It!

By Phil Kitchel posted 07-18-2023
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By Susanne Dunn When you walk around an elementary school, you regularly see students practicing lining up properly, transitioning from rug time to desk time, responding to questions, and moving through classroom stations. Teachers create songs, mnemonics, and hand signals to help students remember routines and procedures. In my experience evaluating secondary teachers, many educators feel that such practices are either childish or that students should already have internalized these practices and should be able to handle just following simple directions when called upon to do so. Students at this age, however, need structure and routine just as much as small ...
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Building Persistence Through Struggle

By Phil Kitchel posted 06-12-2023
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By Zareen Gul Aga (Rahman) The author wrote “Pre-service Mathematics Teachers’ Experience with Productive Struggle,” which is published in Volume 87, Issue 2 of the KDP Forum. It is available free in the month of June. We do our students a disservice by teaching them that the only thing of value in a mathematics classroom is the right answer. This notion promotes the view that there’s only one right way to think, a deeply troubling idea given the state of the world we live in today. Unfortunately, many students only ever experience a narrow view of mathematics that begins and ends inside the last mathematics course they enrolled in. Doing mathematics ...
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Stand Out as a Leader, Even If You Don’t Think You Are One—Yet!

By Phil Kitchel posted 06-06-2023
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By Jacek Polubiec Most of us agree that the idea that leaders just lead, teachers just teach, and students just learn is a thing of the past. Innovative schools have been blurring these traditional boundaries for years, and most people understand that being flexible, open minded, collaborative, and proactive are critical attributes of those who want to succeed in the contemporary workplace. The expectation is that leaders distribute their influence among the staff, teachers assume roles in policy making, and students take ownership of their own learning. For the adults in the school building, this paradigm shift comes with opportunities to assume official ...
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Turning Chaos into Opportunity

By Phil Kitchel posted 06-05-2023
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By Michael G. Ryan Michael Ryan and co-authors Megan Cziraky , Kristen Kain , Helena McKendrick , and Meredith Miller published the article “ Learning, Growing, Embracing, Transitioning, and Changing: Exploring Resilient Teaching and Learning during the Covid-19 Shutdown,” in Volume 87, Number 2, of KDP’s Educational Forum . The article is available free in the month of June. It’s easy to point out all the pain, sorrow, and challenges that COVID 19 wrought. This is especially true when thinking about the impact that the pandemic had on education. Zoom classes, isolation, and learning loss are some of the terms that come to mind. These ...
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3 Keys to Safe and Connected Classrooms

By Phil Kitchel posted 05-23-2023
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By Kyle W. Lickel “Explosions.” That’s what popped in my head as I pondered the question: “What is going to get students to actually want to attend class and be engaged?” If I could put together an entire unit studying explosions—the science, history, math, literature, art, and so on—I bet kids would want to come to class. Then, that passing thought got swept away in the whirlwind of teaching, grading, planning, and managing behavior. Later I thought, “What is it about ‘explosions’ that made me think of it in the first place?” The excitement? The surprise element? The heat and ...
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Great Classroom Management + High Teacher Confidence = An Effective New Teacher

By Phil Kitchel posted 05-02-2023
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By Grace Kibe Novice teachers aspire to have a great classroom, with students who are well behaved and academically successful. They strive to practice student-centered and culturally responsive teaching practices that meet the needs of all students. To achieve this goal, novice teachers should aim to have effective classroom management practices and high self-efficacy beliefs. Classroom management encompasses teachers’ commitment to maintain a healthy learning environment through the establishment of rules and expectations that eliminate disruptive behaviors (Reddy, Newman, & Verdesco, 2016). Teacher self-efficacy beliefs ...
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