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Up to 15,000 teachers a day phone in sick

Teachers taking time off for sickness cost almost three million working days in England alone last year, an increase of almost a fifth in a decade. On an ordinary school day, an average of 15,000 teachers are off sick across the country, according to government figures obtained by the Conservatives.

netTrekker Includes Teachers? Domain

netTrekker now includes access to Teachers' Domain, the result of a partnership between Thinkronize, the developer of the netTrekker educational search products, and WGBH Educational Foundation, the producer of Teachers' Domain.

Illinois teachers retirement fund hires State Street

The Teachers Retirement System of Illinois has hired State Street Corp. to serve as the system's new master trustee and custodian and securities lending provider.

Indian teachers burn books to keep warm: report

NEW DELHI (AFP) - A group of teachers in eastern India used books meant for poor children to light a bonfire to keep them warm, a report said Tuesday.

Two Former Science Teachers to Fly on Next Space Shuttle Mission

HOUSTON, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two former science teachers, who are now fully-trained NASA astronauts, will make their first journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's upcoming mission to the International Space Station. During the 14-day shuttle flight, Joseph Acaba and Richard Arnold will step outside the station to conduct critical spacewalking tasks.

Two Former Science Teachers to Fly on Next Space Shuttle Mission

HOUSTON, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two former science teachers, who are now fully-trained NASA astronauts, will make their first journey into orbit on space shuttle Discovery's upcoming mission to the International Space Station. During the 14-day shuttle flight, Joseph Acaba and Richard Arnold will step outside the station to conduct critical spacewalking tasks. (Logo:

Special Collection of Science Courses From WGBH/Teachers? Domain Now Available through PBS TeacherLine

MMISchools.com: Special Collection of Science Courses From WGBH/Teachers’ Domain Now Available through PBS TeacherLine

Angola: UNAP's Secretary Admits Lack of Plastic Arts Teachers

Luanda — The secretary-general of the Angolan National Union of Plastic Artists (UNAP), António Bastos Galiano, said last Monday in Luanda that there is still a lack of qualified teachers of plastic arts in the country.

Pacesetting techies

Teachers at the fourth Worldwide Innovative Teachers Forum prove they have what it takes to stay relevant as they enthusiastically embrace change and jettison traditional classroom practices for new alternatives.

LHC tells Gujrat EDO to appear on 23rd

LAHORE: Justice Hafiz Tariq Nasim of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed the Gujrat executive district officer (EDO) to appear in court on December 23. The petitioners, Shahnaz Akhtar and Kalsoom Bibi, submitted that they were appointed PTC teachers in 1993, but their appointment was cancelled. They said that Nasreen Akhtar was still working as a PTC teacher despite the fact that she did not qualify for the post, adding that she had passed her matriculation exam in third division and the PTC exam in second division whereas they (the petitioners) had passed the matriculation exam in the second division and PTC exam in the first division. The petitioner said that another 34 PTC teachers were reinstated on December 23, 1996, but they were dropped from the merit list.

Teachers use blogs to forge new links with students, parents

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When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education

jamie found this blog post up on the HeliOS Project, which brings Linux to school kids in Austin, TX. It makes very clear some of the obstacles that free software faces in the classroom. It seems a teacher came upon a student demonstrating Linux to other kids and handing out LiveCDs. The teacher confiscated the CDs and wrote an angry email to HeliOS's founder, Ken Starks: "Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. ... This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all.

Two Former Science Teachers to Fly on Next Space Shuttle Mission

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Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux"

An couple of anonymous readers wrote in to let us know about a followup to last Wednesday's story of the teacher who didn't believe in free software. The Linux advocate who posted the original piece has cooled off and graciously apologized for going off half-cocked (even though the teacher had done the same), and provided a little more background which, while not excusing the teacher's ignorance, does make her actions somewhat more understandable. Ken Starks has talked with the teacher, who has received a crash education in technology over the last few days — Starks is installing Linux on her computer tomorrow. He retracts his insinuations about Microsoft money and the NEA. All in all he demonstrates what a little honest communication can do, a lesson that all of us who advocate for free software can take to heart.

Poll: 29% of science teachers say creationism should be taught

This article was first published on guardian.co.uk at 00.00 GMT on Tuesday 23 December 2008. It was last updated at 00.01 GMT on Tuesday 23 December 2008.

NASA Invites North Carolina Teachers to Participate in Workshop Series

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Super Searchers Go to School: Sharing Effective Online Strategies with K-12 Students, Teachers, and Librarians

Twelve prominent K-12 educators and educator librarians share their techniques and tips for helping students become effective, life-long information users. Through a series of skillful interviews, Joyce Kasman Valenza—techlife@school columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and herself a tech-savvy high school librarian—gets the experts to reveal their field-tested strategies for working with student learners and educator peers. You’ll discover techniques for teaching search tool selection, evaluating result lists and Web sites, deciding when to use a professional database or the Invisible Web, and much more. This is a must-read for any teacher, librarian, or parent whose aim is to equip students with the skills and habits they will need to succeed in an information-driven society.

Archer has an arrow escape

Teachers at Jiutai City school believe the young archers were practicing on their own when the accident happened.

Instructor's Blog Teaches Teaching Methods

Teachers of history, English, math and science have different ways of imparting their wisdom on their students -- some dress in character to grab kids' attention during a history lesson, while others assign groups to act out William Shakespeare's Hamlet on video.

Robo-lizards Help Prove Long-standing Signaling Theory

Like teachers who rap a ruler before announcing homework in noisy classrooms, Puerto Rican anole lizards perform eye-catching pushups before beginning head-bobbing displays that advertise their territory and status, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis. Full Story

Seeing red over scarlet-marked homework

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Teachers using red pen to mark students' work could be harming their psyche as the color is too aggressive, according to education strategies drafted by an Australian state government.

Schoolkids to get classes in plane

The children's teachers plan to install the £35,000 static aircraft in a playing field and kit it out with touchscreen TVs and a glass floor.

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