Education Articles for Teachers & Educators

Guest Post from Retiring Edu. Retirement is not just about leaving the classroom, but about establishing a firm financial foundation, planning for healthcare costs, and achieving the lifestyle you have dreamed of. By following the right strategies, you can transition smoothly into this new and rewarding phase.

A strong reading classroom should include specific instructional time that utilizes explicit, systematic, and sequential instruction as part of your well-rounded reading instruction. Let’s delve into each of these instructional components.

If you are reading this, you have likely been impacted by the Title II Part A (or Title II-A) funding freeze. First introduced back in 2001 under the No Child Left Behind Act and then revised in 2015 under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II-A funding has provided professional development support to teachers across the country. The focus of Title II-A funding has been to support teachers in improving or enhancing instruction with an end result of improved student performance.

MTSS is an acronym for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support. MTSS is a tiered framework that utilizes various student data to provide academic, social-emotional, and behavioral support to improve student educational outcomes in the school setting. The term “systems” is important in MTSS. MTSS requires the use of the entire school system, with multiple support methods, to come together in preventative interventions for students identified in need.

Florida teachers must renew their educator certification every five years by completing credits or in-service points and submitting a renewal application. Your certification period usually runs from July 1st to June 30th, and so toward the end of your five-year period, you should complete your coursework and apply for your certificate renewal prior to the June 30th deadline.

Financial literacy is the ability to use financial skills and knowledge to make informed decisions about money. It includes understanding how to budget, spend, save, and invest. During this Financial Literacy Month, Model Teaching has prepared a short article addressing the importance of financial literacy, especially for teachers and educators. We discuss some of the reasons why it's so important to teachers and why teachers may be very well positioned to do well financially, and provide some basics on financial literacy, financial intelligence, and some tools to help teachers get started on improving their financial health.

The science of reading is a collection of the currently available reading research that explains positive results in reading performance. It is a compilation of studies published by peer-reviewed researchers; in other words, the research is conducted in a controlled setting and then reviewed by experts in the field for validity and accuracy before acceptance into a major research publication. It attempts to distinguish in the research literature between correlative (data simply showing a correlation that may or may not show effectiveness in a strategy) and causation (data showing that one specific strategy causes something to happen- in this case, improved reading performance by some metric determined by the researchers).

Pennsylvania educators must renew their professional educator certificate every 5 years by completing approved continuing education. While your school or district may offer you some professional development, you may also need to find additional professional development on your own. If you are not currently in the classroom, you likely will still want to keep your certificate active and may need to find professional development to fulfill those requirements.

Renewal of your professional certificate in the classroom teaching service requires 100 CTLEs every five years. Individuals with a professional certificate in educational leadership service or a teaching assistant level III certificate will also require CTLEs.

Illinois teachers must renew their professional educator license every five years by completing approved ISBE (Illinois State Board of Education) clock hours. While your school or district may offer you some professional development, you may also need to find additional professional development on your own. If you are not currently in the classroom, you likely would still like to keep your certificate active and may need to find professional development to fulfill those requirements.

Your Texas standard teaching certificate must be renewed every five years. While your school or district may offer you some professional development, you may also need to find additional professional development on your own. If you are not currently in the classroom, you likely still want to keep your certificate active and may need to find professional development to fulfill those requirements.

Outdoor education can be broadly described as any kind of learning that occurs either in nature or in the outdoors. While outdoor education, or outdoor learning, is classified in many different ways, in this article you will learn about five common ways in which outdoor learning might be implemented.