Teacher education must help future teachers connect what they learn at university with the real challenges they will face in classrooms.
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A study rooted in Black women educators’ experiences invites us to envision education as a site of liberation, not just endurance.
Decisions to fill teacher vacancies with uncertified adults compromises children’s education and reveals a demeaning notion that teachers — in a female-dominated profession — are merely babysitters.
Today, state and federal education ministers will meet in Canberra to discuss the teacher shortage. It will be their first in-person meeting for more than a year.
Despite signals of increased turnover, the past two years have not experienced mass departures from the teaching profession.
Women are often drawn to teaching because of the supposed life-work balance. Extreme workloads and inflexible school structures means too many quit early.
There is no need for all students to sit the same test, that asks the same questions, on the same day. We are smarter than that.
On the occasion of World Teacher’s Day, on Oct. 5, a scholar explains why borrowing teacher quality models from high-scoring countries such as Finland, South Korea or Singapore is not effective.
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Professor of Educational Administration, Penn State
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Professor (Curriculum Inquiry / Rural Education), University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Special Education, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Florida
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Professor of Teacher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Education, Temple University
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Dean, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate professor of edcuational leadershiop and policy analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Distinguished University Professor, Faculty of Education, cross-appointed to Medical Imaging, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
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Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education, Sheffield Hallam University
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PhD Student, Educational Studies, Lakehead University
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Associate professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology