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Study: U.S. Teacher Training 'Dismal'

A report released on Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality finds that U.S. teacher training is “an industry of mediocrity” that produces teachers without a clue. “The results were dismal,” said Kate Walsh, president of the bipartisan research group. Show More Summary

AM News: Advocacy Group Rates Teacher Prep Programs

University programs that train US teachers get mediocre marks in first-ever... Washington Post: Released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington-based advocacy group, the rankings are part of a $5 million project funded by major U.S. Show More Summary

Rookie teachers woefully unprepared, report says

(Reuters) - The U.S. teacher training system is badly broken, turning out rookie educators who have little hands-on experience running classrooms and are quickly overwhelmed by the job, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Council on...

Margaret Howard: Part III: Trauma Training Should Be Mandatory for Yoga Teachers

Don't insist a student take a pose s/he doesn't want to do. Don't ask twice. Respect your students' body wisdom. Become unattached to that teacher/student hierarchy. Teach your students to trust themselves. That's how they'll make friends with their bodies. That's how they'll heal.

Video: YogaWorks Teacher Training Tip of the Week | Mooving into Cow Faced Pose

This week we’re lovin’ our hips! In this MyYogaWorks.com video, our YogaWorks Teacher Trainer Alexandria Crow leads us into a variation of Gomukasana, Cow Face Pose. And by the way, how does this look like a cow? We digress. Let’s …

Do ALICE training tactics put students, teachers at risk?

Questions about student and teacher safety continue to mount as some schools deploy questionable drill tactics in which children and teachers are instructed to throw things at, and to attack, armed gunmen. The tactics stem from the controversial “Counter” component of the A.L.I.C.E. Show More Summary

8 Things I Learned From Yoga Teacher Training

When I began yoga teacher training, I wanted to deepen my yoga practice. I wanted to understand correct alignment, to learn more arm balances and inversions, and to understand the history and philosophy of yoga. During the course of my …

Video: YogaWorks Teacher Training Tip of the Week | Vashistasana (Side Plank) In All of it’s Glory

In this MyYogaWorks.com video, our YogaWorks Teacher Trainer Jesse Schein leads you into Vashistasana. Vashistasana Set Up: First, we want to start with one of our favorite preparatory poses, Downward Facing Dog.  Hands and feet are shoulder width apart, the …

"Lewis Hine: Photography for a Change" opens at Fotomuseum Winterthur

To what extent can images effectively combat injustice and social inequity? The American photographer Lewis Hine (1874?1940) offered an early answer to this question through his work. Trained as a teacher and sociologist, he ardently wished that Americans would become conscious of the injustice of American labor laws. Show More Summary

Texas Passes Bill to Train Teachers as Armed Marshals

Texas legislators have sent a bill to Governor Rick Perry that allows schools to train and maintain teachers as "armed marshals" on campuses. The bill, which had already passed the Texas house, enjoyed a bipartisan passage of 28-3 in the Texas senate. Show More Summary

Texas passes bill to train teachers as armed ‘school marshals’

Video: YogaWorks Teacher Training Tip of the Week | What’s Up with Downward Dog

If you are going to practice one pose in a day, let it be Downward Dog. A masterful pose as it strengthens and lengthens the muscles of the arms, the shoulders, core, legs and it also gives you the benefit …

“the current system is inefficient and we need to examine the case for reform of teacher education provision”

The BBC reports on the latest attempt by the Northern Ireland Employment and Learning Minister, the Alliance Party’s Stephen Farry, to reform the teacher training system here.    It follows the publication of a report on the first stage of the Study of the Teacher Education Infrastructure in Northern Ireland.  From the ministerial press release “The research [...]

Margaret Howard: Part II: Trauma Training Should Be Mandatory for Yoga Teachers

Yoga teachers can go a long way toward taking care of their students by avoiding triggering traumatic responses in those students have traumatic injuries. And you should, as part of responsible, ethical teaching practice.

AM News: Teacher Training Programs Face National Scrutiny

Florida Plans Increased Scrutiny For Education Schools StateImpact: Nationally, education schools have been criticized for being far too easy and, as a result, pumping ill-equipped teachers into the system and harming student achievement. Show More Summary

Catholic elementary school has leading UK gay lobby group educate students on “homophobic bullying”

by Hilary White LONDON, May 16, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Catholic elementary school in Wimbledon is under criticism for inviting Stonewall, the UK’s most powerful homosexual lobbying group, to train its teachers how to deal with “homophobic bullying.” Sarah Crouch, headmaster of St. Mary’s…

The Last Train to Zona Verde

“As a twenty-two-year-old teacher at a small school in rural Africa I had spent some of the happiest years of my life,” writes legendary travel writer Paul Theroux in his new book. Africa seeped into Theroux’s soul on that first visit, so much so that he has regularly returned to it as a kind of touchstone throughout his 50-year career.

Popular! Joe Thambu’s dazzling Yoshinkan Aikido demonstration… nearly 2,000,000 views

Joe Thambu is an Australian teacher of Yoshinkan Aikido, currently ranked 7th Dan, with over 35 years experience in the art. He began his training in 1972 and was the first person to teach and disseminate Yoshinkan Aikido in Australia. He teaches out of the Aikido Shudokan school located in Melbourne… Click here to watch… Read More

So, do teachers need Power Point Training, too?

The UK’s Daily Mail, by way of Dan Riehl reports that 24-year-old Amanda Brennan, until recently an English teacher at Foothill High School in Henderson, Nevada was caught cuddling with a 15-year-old boy. From the Nevada Review Journal; When confronted by police on Friday, the student said he and Brennan loved each other and [...]

Rumeet Billan: The Ongoing Supply and Demand for Teachers

In Chad there is one primary school teacher for every 1,815 children, and in Mali, only half of all primary teachers are trained. Consider the quality (or lack thereof) of education within the classroom in areas of our world where students do not have access to trained teachers.