Teaching

Members of the Teacher's Leadership Network asked: "What's a Teacher Leader's Expiration Date? After discussion, they answered the question with two more questions: 1. Can teachers fully develop as leaders, learning the skills necessary for working with adults and seeing education from a broader perspective if they remain in the classroom for their whole careers? 2. Can teachers who step into leadership roles really...

Darran Simon reports that the New Orleans public school system wants teachers, over 600 of them to start work by Fall, 2007. "If you are looking for a job . . . where you can truly make a difference, and really be part of a historic opportunity, this is the job for you," Walter Stern, a New Orleans native and teachNOLA's site manager. New...

The National Center for Education Statistics reports in Teacher Attrition and Mobility: results from the 2004-05 Teacher Follow-up Survey that the During the 2003–04 school year, 3,214,900 public school teachers who were teaching. During the following year: - 84 percent remained at the same school (“stayers”), - 8 percent moved to a different school (“movers”), and - 8 percent left the profession (“leavers”)....

BEIJING, April 19, 2007 – Microsoft made it clear today where the company is headed with regard to education: full speed ahead, and in all parts of the world. Bill Gates concluded Microsoft’s Government Leaders Forum (GLF) Asia conference by introducing the centerpiece in the company’s action plan to help transform educational opportunity around the globe. Microsoft’s Partners in Learning program has been...

Sylvia Carr reported that Bill Gates described his syllabus for education at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in Scotland. Lectures will be distributed for free over the Internet, students will hold discussions at a distance in chat rooms, and testing and accreditation will happen online for people anywhere in the world ... Technology allows for more specialization and improvement in education.He believes people select...

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation offers streaming video books read by actors for use in classrooms and homes. Learn about Enemy Pie, Stellaluna, Romeow & Drooliet, Dad, Are you the Tooth Fairy? and many more memorable characters. Each reading comes with suggested exercises teachers may use. Maybe someone will talk with them about providing ink enabled worksheets for teachers and students to use. Kudos,...

Jennifer Morrison, an 8th grade language arts teacher at Piedmont Open IB Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina, answers questions about curricula and instruction from teachers. It's an easy three minute column to scan, and then spend more time carefully reading responses of interest to you. Great questions; insightful responses from Jennifer. Questions include these: Who determines the content and the timeline of various...

The new TeacherSolutions(SM) released the report, Performance-Pay for Teachers: Designing a System that Students Deserve. The report contains radical changes from traditional teacher compensation packages, including:• Rewarding small teams of teachers who raise student achievement together; • Rewarding teachers who accept challenging assignments in high-needs schools and strengthen connections between school and community; and • Redesigning pay systems so that teacher success, not seniority...

New teacher Erin Gruwell stumbled into responding to her students' lack of information by referring to Nazi depictions of German Jews in the 1930s and 1940s. The stumble came about because she tried to follow the conventional rules of classroom discipline. (If you do not have a rule or pattern to follow, you cannot know what constitutes an exception.) As a response to their...

The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) calls for nominations for outstanding teaching. Applicants must have at least 5 years of mathematics or science teaching experience prior to application and must teach mathematics or science at the 7th–12th-grade level in a public or private school.Deadline: May 1, 2007 It would be great for a Tableteer to receive this award.