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Aboriginal teacher earns A+
Robyn Turgeon is one busy woman -- and she has the mother's guilt to prove it.
As a teacher for both the Thames Valley District school board and the University of Western Ontario, Turgeon completed her master's degree last year, earning an award for academic achievement, and has written curriculum for aboriginal youth -- all while trying to spend time with her husband and two children.
"You wa… Read all
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Approaching Teaching in Untraditional Ways
Shelley Fralic's column did a huge disservice to the thousands of public school teachers across B.C. who work so hard every day to build learning programs tailored to students' individual needs, whether academic, athletic, artistic, or socio-emotional.
They do this in the face of enormous and growing obstacles: Huge class sizes; scant learning resources; erosion of support for children with … Read all
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Teacher reprimanded after calling students "Slags"
British teacher told students about sex life and called them "slags"
Lindsay Brown, 35, told her students explicit details of her sex life, including how she burnt her nipple while cooking naked.
The General Teaching Council found six allegations of making inappropriate comments about colleagues and students and 15 allegations of discussing her private life and making sexual comments were true.… Read all
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Are Teacher Contracts really up in over 10 local districts?
Four years ago, when McHenry Elementary District 15 administration and its teachers union agreed to a five-year contract, they used interest-based bargaining as a way to keep the negotiations from becoming adversarial.
Parties in the negotiation look for a “win-win” agreement, rather than coming to the table from opposing viewpoints.
“If you don’t go into the mindset of what’s good f… Read all
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Study Finds teachers work harder for the children of pushy parents
Ambitious middle-class parents help their children get better grades at school by making teachers work harder, according to new research.
Reading bedtime stories, helping with homework and regularly attending parents’ evenings all encourage children – and their teachers – to put in extra effort, the study by Leicester and Leeds Universities suggested.
In fact, the level of parental in… Read all
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Russian Teacher Fired For Complaining About Having To Use Microsoft Software
While there's been a lot of attention paid in the last couple of months to Russia's use of Microsoft to charge nonprofit groups they don't like with copyright infringement (something that Microsoft is now trying to reverse), there was also another controversy in Russia a few years back concerning Microsoft. You may remember that Russian prosecutors were threatening to send a Russian scho… Read all
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