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WELCOME to Teachers in the Movies, brought to you by Dr. Apple, the Movie Teacher. This website is dedicated to help teaching professionals bring movies into their curriculum. For more than 20 years, I have collected and reviewed over 200 movies dealing with teachers, schools and students and how they deal with all types of topics including bullying, cheating, dropouts and so much more. The purpose of this website is share what I've learned from these movies about the teaching profession with you. If you need a movie dealing with a specific problem, then I can prescribe a movie or clip to cure your educational ailments.

Marquette University Center for Peacemaking Teaching Resources page

Concerned at the growing number of students diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety disorders - and more who seem headed that way, especially in Grade 9 - North Toronto Collegiate has launched an unusual program to teach teens how to handle the stress thrust on them by parents, the school system, and themselves. Through lunch workshops in meditation and kick-boxing, laughter therapy and yoga and even listening to new-age music played on crystals, the school is trying to teach kids what guidance head Michelle de Braux calls "the fourth R - relaxation."

Teacher Evaluator Training & Certification: Lessons Learned From the Measures of Effective Teaching Project Makes recommendations for the design and implementation of programs to train and certify principals in conducting teacher evaluations, including content, format, and length of training, scoring practice, and criteria for certification tests.

Lightening the Load: A Look at Four Ways That Community Schools Can Support Effective Teaching Center for American Progress Chang, Theodora; Calyssa Lawyer Published: January 2012 Describes how healthcare, family involvement, and expanded food assistance programs at high-poverty community schools enhance teacher effectiveness by enabling them to focus on instruction in stable environments. Recommends policies to maximize benefits.

Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus: The intent of this work is to describe various ways in which students' ready engagement in, and quick learning when playing, electronic games have been assumed to provide useful guidance to educators. This goal is pursued by means of analysis of the relevant research and the prescriptions for classroom teaching and learning that have emerged it. Close critical examination of these attempts to infer educational practices from electronic gaming yields three general strategies that have been pursued. The focus of this study has been on evaluating the relative value of these three general strategies.

OER course from Saylor PSYCH303. cational psychologists work to understand how to strcture educational systems in order to meet the mental and emotional needs of students. They study how people learn, identify and suggest efficient teaching methods, and evaluate the effectiveness of various educational policies and practices.

Coordinated by UNESCO, funded from U.S. State Department extra budgetary contributions, the "Teaching Respect for All" project recognizes the key role of schools in combatting racial and ethnic discrimination.

An Improved Framework for Research-Based Instruction The book that revolutionized teaching by linking classroom strategies to evidence of increased student learning has been reenergized and reorganized for today's classroom with new evidence-based insights and a refined framework that strengthens instructional planning.

In an educational revolution of sorts, a growing number of Israeli schools are taking a novel approach to the instruction of Arabic: They're hiring Arab teachers. The initiative is about far more than teaching children a new language. Educators say they hope to break down barriers in a society where Jewish and Arab citizens have little day-to-day interaction and often view each other with suspicion.

Since Romania and Bulgaria's accession to the EU, more and more Roma have flocked to Germany, many of whom send their children to school without any knowledge of the language, the Berliner Umschau states. The teachers at the Hermann Schulz primary school in Berlin-Reinickendorf have sent a letter to the authorities to complain about the matter. In one of the classes at the school, 20% of the children are Roma with no knowledge of German. The teachers have complained that they are no longer capable of catering to the needs of the entire classes and are finding it impossible to teach the curriculum.