Last September, I was sitting at a long table in the sunlit conference room of my school, looking around at the many new faces on my school’s leadership team. At that moment, I had the jarring ...

Around this time four years ago, a seismic event was rippling across education. In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. They’d ...

Summertime doesn’t mean that classroom learning opportunities stop for our teacher candidates. All education majors at UAB must complete multiple field experiences before moving through our teacher ...

Picture this: It’s your first day as a graduate student instructor. You’re armed with a stack of syllabi, a mind full of academic theories and the unshakable feeling that you might be in way over your ...

Being a teacher for the past two years was a lot of things: challenging, rewarding, frustrating, tiring. Most of all, though, it was an identity shift for me. Teaching quickly became my main source of ...

As a graduate student, I always felt a bit guilty about admitting it. As a postdoctoral fellow, I was increasingly sure it was true. And now, with the safety net of tenure, I can wholeheartedly admit: ...

Ahead of the 2024 school year, PS's The Educators is spotlighting 24 public school teachers around the country who are making a difference. Ali Russell is a seventh-grade science teacher at Gateway ...

Remote working has become the norm and Costa Rica is a great country to do it from. Teaching English online can be an attractive option to make a steady income from the beach, the Central valley or ...

When Zulya Nuñez moved from teaching in preschool to a transitional kindergarten classroom, she was shocked at the differences. This story is part of a special series on transitional kindergarten in ...

When I think back to my days teaching English abroad, I think how lucky I was to have experienced such a life. It was one of the most challenging jobs in the world, but also the most rewarding, and ...