Topic: Teaching & Learning
The New Teacher Leader Model Standards: Teacher Leaders are Here, But Do Our Schools Know What to do With Us?
Several years ago I was invited to address a group of participants in an Administrators’ Academy held at a local university. At the time I was president of a large school district union and was also one of the first National Board Certified teachers in my area. The instructor asked... Read the full article >
Teaching for the Future: Creating the Teaching Profession that 21st-Century Students Deserve
Many reformers propose a “superhero fix” for our highest-need schools, placing young recruits in challenging classrooms for just a few years. However well-intentioned, it’s a solution that dodges the real problem: teaching in the 21st century is complex, challenging work. And we need millions of well-prepared, highly savvy teachers who... Read the full article >
Meaningful Learning: Wellness as Preparation for College Success
By definition, when we prepare people, we are making them ready for use. With regard to education, the fundamental question should be, “what is the use for which we are preparing learners?” The answer to this basic question challenges teachers, administrators and parents and therefore, it is too often side... Read the full article >
Engaging Students for Sustained Learning
Students in the 21st century are continuously bombarded with the requirements of curriculum content, standards, and technological expectations that extend beyond what most of us were prepared to teach. Never before have there been so many questions about what is essential to learn, within such a short amount of time... Read the full article >
Whole Brain Teaching: Learning the Way the Brain is Designed
For a new teacher going into your first classroom is a prospect that is both exciting and frightening. Training and practical experience under the tutelage of professors and experienced teachers is all well and good, but those people are not with you when you walk into that room and look... Read the full article >
CEO Message: Looking into the Future for Teachers
Tomorrow’s teachers are today’s middle schoolers – 7th grade students today will be teaching the next generation in 2020. They are digital natives, and they will present a learning environment that is interactive and technology rich. This issue of AdvancED Source is focused on Teachers of the Future. While we... Read the full article >
An International Perspective: Teaching in 2020
A decade can bring about significant change to individuals and to the world. How will a decade change education? None of us can be certain about what the future will bring, but recently a sampling of educators at AdvancED accredited institutions around the world participated in a survey* about teaching... Read the full article >
Something Old, Something New: What Teachers as Assessors Must Know and Be Able to Do
A variety of factors and initiatives seem to be converging to create a “perfect storm” of reform in education. Dissatisfaction with American students’ performance on international assessments, concerns about U.S. global competitiveness, the state of the economy, and evidence that many high school graduates are not “college or career ready”... Read the full article >