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Panel Promotes Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Panelists praised what the IRT did for them, discussing how the organization bolstered what they knew about the teaching profession, expanded their professional networks, and helped them understand key educational concepts. When we are in the classroom, when we are teaching children who look like us, our students do better,” she said. “And

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Report: Student Interest in Pursuing Careers in Education on the Decline, But Enrollment in Intro Teaching Courses Rises

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite decreasing interest for working in education, enrollment trends for the two states’ high school introductory teaching courses complicated the story. According to the report, enrollment in Tennessee’s Teaching as a Profession courses has been on the rise from 2018 to 2022, alongside the number of schools offering such courses.

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A Missing Piece [Peace]: Teaching & Learning in the Digital Age

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This suggestion is reasonable given the common occurrence of faculty in the higher education sector being hired without any prior preparation to teach [facilitate learning]. Historically, those hired to teach at the university level complete the required studies in a given discipline. Moreover, our group was not alone in our thinking.

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Educators Strategize on How to Diversify the K-12 Teaching Profession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But many educators at the annual meeting expressed worries about the political climate that has made it more difficult to encourage college students to consider entering the teaching profession.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks?

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Educational Institutions Play Vital Role in Teaching American Public

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bunch III came together to discuss the increasingly vital role public institutions play in teaching American citizens their country’s history, particularly the history of Black people. The whole ‘WOKE’ bill says if you teach African American history to people, it will make them feel guilty and, therefore, you can’t teach it,” said Alexander.

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ASU Faculty Receive $1.6 Million for Program to Better Teach K-12 Educators about Civics, History, and Media Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. Teachers who have been hired to teach history and social studies in [high-poverty schools] may not have had much coursework in history, civics and media literacy themselves or training in how to teach these subjects,” Harris said.

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