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An innovation expert visits schools in all 50 states and discovers that given trust, community support, and resources, our teaching force can be unstoppable.
That’s how many elementary teachers reported having high levels of stress in a new study that highlights the magnitude of the problem and its effect on students.
Is a support system helping them advance in their profession. Meet two early career educators who found support from their colleagues and Associations.
To add a little fun to any K-12 classroom, media specialist Ann Duncan suggests asking student to find vocabulary words related to topics of interest. They can choose any word from the English dictionary, but they must be able to pronounce it, provide the definition and part of speech, and use it in a sentence.
The challenge comes when the teacher must spell the word. Not only does this give students practice in all the uses of a dictionary, but they also watch you model the steps in spelling a word: sounding it out, looking at the number of syllables, matching consonants and vowels to the sound. They love it when they stump you, with the bonus that you’ve all learned some new words!
