Tag: TEACHER

A group of Memphis-based Teach For America candidates is testing wireless headsets in the classroom. A mentor located in another room provides feedback and support to the teacher through the headset, just like an NFL coach does to a quarterback. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Memphis TFA branch will study how teachers who wear the headsets adjust to leading a classroom ...

Share Here's a great way to get yourself fired: logging onto Facebook, and letting the world know how much you hate your job -- and the people you work for -- especially if you work with kids. That's exactly what Dr. June Talvitie-Siple did, and it totally worked. Dr. Talvitie-Siple, supervisor of the math and science program at Massachusetts's Cohasset High School, recently used the social ...

School officials in Lee County, Florida have issued a new set of guidelines for the upcoming academic year. This go-round, they're cracking down on Facebook. As the AFP reports, the newly published protocol explicitly warns district teachers against interacting with their students via social networking sites, in order to avoid the kinds of legal or professional pitfalls that have plagued so ...

A scandal involving sexting, the risque practice of sending illicit texts or photos, predominantly attributed to teens, is currently rocking a high school in England. The students in question weren't circulating photos of themselves or their classmates, though. The photos were of their principal. According to The Telegraph, the headmistress, Sue Brearley, told colleagues that she uploaded the ...

Of all the things one can do during class to help improve test scores, surfing the Web certainly isn't one of them. Seems obvious to us, but it took a teacher from the University of Colorado at Boulder to single it out before her group of students wised up. Once they did, their test scores improved. Diane Sieber, an associate professor, picked out the 17 students in her classes who were using ...

Chances are, you weren't always kind to your teachers when you were in school (or aren't kind to them now if you're still there). Back then, the worst you probably had to worry about was a bit of a verbal rebuke or, perhaps, a trip to the principal's office. But things may change with Saya, a Japanese robot undergoing trials as a teacher at a Tokyo school. Misbehave in front of her and she might ...

Okay folks, if we've told you once, we've told you a thousand times: You should really make your Facebook profiles private. It's great to let it all hang out in the wild and go crazy, but if you have a job that you want to hang on to -- and these days, you should really be trying to do so -- it's in your best interest to keep things on the down-low. Need more proof? Check out the case of Betsy ...

Let us just say that we hate IM-speak and Webby abbreviations, but being that this is a family-friendly publication, a simple "WTF" will have to suffice for our reaction on this one. Our minds are really blown by this: A middle school teacher, Karen, had a mini-meltdown when she spotted a student showing off the capabilities of his Linux-powered laptop and handing out Linux discs provided by ...

You might think that teachers and students on MySpace would be like oil and water -- two things that aren't too likely to mix. It's odd to think that a student would really want to 'friend' their teacher, but there is a big enough fear of such an overture taking place in Southern Mississippi that a school district there has gone ahead and banned all friending or texting between students and ...