"Teachers are willing to work here for less because we provide an atmosphere in which they can really be educators," said the superintendent of schools, Lawrence Ambrosio, a blunt-spoken former New York City school principal, who sports an American flag pin on his lapel.
The controversy illustrates how fraught the road can be for educators who venture beyond academics to influence students about sensitive social issues, risking not just lawsuits, but also losing step with parents and voters.
A lot of the comments have been helpful and on-point, which I greatly appreciate, because the whole point of this blog is to start some conversations about how we can better serve students, how we can be better educators, and how we can gain some support for the things we know are needed.
And this is the strongest argument there is for living in this country of ours: you can be an educator here every waking hour — while living at home".
The system used in this paper in evaluating the videos is simple, easy to apply and covers key elements needed in an educational video and can be used by educators interested in creating their videos.
It includes four kinds of educational activities (Exploration, Association, Puzzle and Sorting), which can be personalized by educators at content and user interface levels through a design mainly centered on student requirements, whose user profiles can also be adapted.
Much of this research has focused on demonstrating whether games can be used by educators as effective learning tools, particularly in primary and secondary education [ 4].
The proposed framework of the study can be used by educators, researchers and managers working with groups to foster team cohesiveness in their organizations.
This paper introduces Ontoolsearch, a new search system that can be employed by educators in order to find suitable tools for supporting collaborative learning settings.
