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In the classroom, Yaritza Villalba used to transform history lessons into fun events like rap battles and speakeasies with root beer and students dressed as 1920s celebrities.

For remote teaching, the New York City high school teacher turned to Flipgrid, a video-sharing tool, to create a similar sense of interaction. She kicked off the year by cheerfully introducing herself in a video and asked students to share a video album of songs that expressed their feelings. She had parents share their skills for a virtual talent show and got videos of a mom singing and a dad playing piano. The lively visuals helped her build relationships in a way that emails and phone calls can’t match.

“I teach students who are teenage parents, who live in shelters, who struggle with neglect and have been incarcerated,” says Villalba of her small public school that helps students up to age 21 earn

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Future teachers reflect on learning and teaching in a pandemic

[email protected]_84 November 30, 2020

Knox County Schools teachers and administrators discuss going back to school amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Knoxville News Sentinel

Gabi Loveday is the daughter of two teachers so she knew what kind of workload she was getting into.

But what caught her off-guard is how much she thinks and worries about her student’s routines in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Loveday is an intern at Claxton Elementary School in Anderson County where she teaches first grade students and learns from a mentor teacher. Just like every teacher, she has to think twice about keeping kids spaced apart whether it’s for story time on a communal rug or organizing stations where kids rotate through different activities.

“One of the side effects of COVID for an incoming teacher is we don’t get to see those best practices in motion,” Loveday said. “In an odd way, it’s a good time to be an upcoming teacher

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Teacher’s decades-old find turns out to be the island’s first-ever dinosaur discovery

[email protected]_84 November 26, 2020

You never know what you might find while walking along the beach.

a person holding an animal: Mike Simms, who led the research team, holds the theropod tibia on the left and the Scelidosaurus femur on the right.

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Mike Simms, who led the research team, holds the theropod tibia on the left and the Scelidosaurus femur on the right.

People often come across coins, shells and trash, but a teacher in Northern Ireland made a discovery that will go down in history.

In the 1980s, the late Roger Byrne, a schoolteacher and fossil collector, found several unidentified fossils on the east coast of County Antrim. He held onto them for several years before donating them to the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

Mystery swirled around what the fossils could be until a team of researchers with the University of Portsmouth and Queen’s University Belfast confirmed they are fossilized dinosaur bones.

The 200-million-year-old fossils are the “first dinosaur remains reported from anywhere in Ireland,” according to the article by the research

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Teacher’s decades-old find on a Northern Ireland beach turns out to be the island’s first-ever dinosaur discovery

[email protected]_84 November 26, 2020

You never know what you might find while walking along the beach.

People often come across coins, shells and trash, but a teacher in Northern Ireland made a discovery that will go down in history.

Mystery swirled around what the fossils could be until a team of researchers with the University of Portsmouth and Queen’s University Belfast confirmed they are fossilized dinosaur bones.

The 200-million-year-old fossils are the “first dinosaur remains reported from anywhere in Ireland,” according to the article by the research

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Teacher colleges work to teach future teachers how to teach virtually

[email protected]_84 November 24, 2020

Megan Henry

| The Columbus Dispatch

Adeena Wilcox took a class about digital technology in the classroom as part of her master’s program in early childhood education at Ohio State University over the summer.

Now the 22 year-old from Elizabeth, West Virginia is putting what she learned into practice as she student-teaches second graders at Bluffsview Elementary in the Worthington City School District.

“That class was very, very necessary for my success this semester,” Wilcox said. “I’ve used so many things that I’ve learned in that class. I think this sort of class should be a necessity.”

Teacher colleges throughout Ohio are placing more of an emphasis on preparing future teachers to teach in a virtual classroom since the coronavirus pandemic has forced many school districts to transition to some level of online learning.

“While teaching virtually is a different skillset in some ways — it is also teaching,” said

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Remote learning adds pressure for teachers who work second shift as mothers — ScienceDaily

[email protected]_84 November 9, 2020

The transition to remote learning coupled with an unequal distribution of second-shift responsibilities has placed teachers who are also mothers under immense stress, according to new University at Buffalo research.

The study explored the experiences and challenges facing teacher-mothers who perform the roles of educator in the classroom and parent at home, while also typically carrying out more household labor than their partners.

These responsibilities are exacerbated by technology that blurs the line between work and home, inadequate parental leave policies and low teacher pay, says study co-author Julie Gorlewski, PhD, chair of the Department of Learning and Instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education.

“Balancing a teaching career and motherhood seems to be becoming more difficult,” Gorlewski says. “Both roles carry an expectation of selfless nurturing and can result in physical and emotional exhaustion.

“The implications of this work are particularly relevant today, where the roles of motherhood

new technology

Some veteran teachers skip wave of pandemic-era retirements

[email protected]_84 November 8, 2020

title= — In this photo provided by Farmington Municipal Schools, Gerald Bonds, 86, speaks with an AP reporter via video chat at Farmington High School on Sept. 14, 2020, in Farmington, N.M. Bonds, in his 58th year of teaching at Farmington High School, like most teachers in his state has been instructing his students remotely — an arrangement he despises. (Farmington Municipal Schools via AP)

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FARMINGTON, N.M.

At age 86, agriculture teacher Gerald Bonds, of Farmington, New Mexico, has seen plenty of crises during his career. He sees no reason to call it quits over the coronavirus pandemic.

Bonds is in his 58th year of teaching at Farmington High School and, like most teachers in his state, has been instructing his students remotely — an arrangement he despises.

“I hate it. I want to see the students face to face and talk to them,” Bonds said in a video interview.

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AI teachers must be effective and communicate well to be accepted — ScienceDaily

[email protected]_84 October 31, 2020

The increase in online education has allowed a new type of teacher to emerge ¬ — an artificial one. But just how accepting students are of an artificial instructor remains to be seen.

That’s why researchers at the University of Central Florida’s Nicholson School of Communication and Media are working to examine student perceptions of artificial intelligence-based teachers.

Some of their findings, published recently in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, indicate that for students to accept an AI teaching assistant, it needs to be effective and easy to talk to.

The hope is that by understanding how students relate to AI-teachers, engineers and computer scientists can design them to easily integrate into the education experience, says Jihyun Kim, an associate professor in the school and lead author of the study.

“To use machine teachers effectively, we need to understand students’ perceptions toward machine teachers, their learning experiences with

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Leadership programme exposes teachers and children to science

[email protected]_84 October 29, 2020

David Unwin/Stuff

Ross Intermediate School pupil Nevaeh Shaw, 12, investigates the surface tension of water at a science festival.

Palmerston North teachers have celebrated bringing science expertise into schools with a festival.

In recent years, teachers from schools in the Palmerston North East Community of Learning, a group of schools which work together, have been attending the Royal Society science teachers leadership programme.

To show what work teachers from the community of learning had been doing with students, they held a science, technology, engineering and maths festival at Terrace End School on Thursday, where schools displayed their projects.

Freyberg High School’s head of science Mairi Borthwick works across the schools in the group.

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New technology connects students and teachers on a social and emotional level

[email protected]_84 October 23, 2020

More than 230,000 institutions around the world now have free access to a new tech tool that focuses on social and emotional learning during a time when people need human connection more than ever.

Like most teachers around the country, Rory Yakubov did not get the type of “back to school” that she was hoping for.

“You have to go with the flow, really, if you’re going to stay on top of things right now,” Yakubov said. “Having a mindset where I’m going to have everything perfect is not going to happen. I’m OK – I’m getting OK with that.”

Yakubov says her New Jersey district started the school year remotely, which meant the high school math teacher had to figure out how to connect with her students virtually.

“It would be so nice if I could walk around the classroom with my students, engage them, check in, have conversations

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How teachers rose to the challenge of making online learning engaging and fun

Future teachers reflect on learning and teaching in a pandemic

Teacher’s decades-old find turns out to be the island’s first-ever dinosaur discovery

Teacher’s decades-old find on a Northern Ireland beach turns out to be the island’s first-ever dinosaur discovery

Teacher colleges work to teach future teachers how to teach virtually

Remote learning adds pressure for teachers who work second shift as mothers — ScienceDaily

Some veteran teachers skip wave of pandemic-era retirements

AI teachers must be effective and communicate well to be accepted — ScienceDaily

Leadership programme exposes teachers and children to science