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Help your residents cope better with long shifts

Lisa Mulcahy Medical & Allied Healthcare

Night float, overnight calls and 28-hour days have become the norm for today's medical residents — they're a necessary evil in terms of the immersive learning young doctors need. Yet the residents you supervise are human, and the easier they can get through a tough shift, the better their results, their productivity, and the safety of your patients will be. Employ these research-proven tips to help your residents stay on their toes for the long haul.

Do oncologists have enough knowledge to prescribe medical marijuana?

Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

Although 30 states and the District of Columbia now allow marijuana use for medical purposes, physicians are expected to guide patients through areas where most have little or no training. A recent study revealed that although most oncologists do not feel informed enough about medical marijuana’s use to make clinical recommendations, at least half still recommend the drug to their patients.

Can educators make trade school an easier choice for students?

Sheilamary Koch Education

In response to soaring higher education costs and widespread shortages of skilled workers to fill jobs, the topic of vocational training has become increasingly popular. The reduced training time and cost of trade school compared to university is a key benefit highlighted by advocates. Why then, despite the obvious benefits, are high school graduates — especially those likely to find a career in the trades fulfilling — still opting for an expensive college education instead of trade school?

AI technology must be leveraged to respond to, minimize school shootings

Matty Squarzoni Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

Even one school shooting is too many. Nineteen years after one of America’s most infamous and deadly incidents — the Columbine school shooting — little has improved in the nearly two decades since. These incidents require better prevention and response measures as they create long-term impacts on schools and communities — destroying countless lives when the shooter succeeds in taking even one shot.

Are you schooling or educating your English learner students?

Erick Herrmann Education

English learners, like all students, go to school to learn. They are learning the knowledge and skills of the content areas as they are developing English proficiency. The goal, of course, is that students learn to be critical thinkers, are able to engage in society, and develop the skills necessary to be happy and successful human beings. As we teach our students, then, are we creating situations in which students can develop those skills? Or are we teaching them to robotically follow the rules that are imposed by the adults in the school?

Taking drastic steps to improve teacher recruitment

Brian Stack Education

I recently attended the ASCD Empower18 national conference in Boston and was surprised to see that a brave rural New Hampshire school district from the western part of the state had set up shop in an effort to recruit educators to their schools. For this rural district, attracting educators from far away is their best strategy because their part of the state has seen a decline in population and an exodus of skilled workers leaving the region to seek employment in other parts of the state or country, where wages are often higher and housing is more affordable and/or available.

Have your students review the school year successfully

Susan Winebrenner Education

Are you looking for an end-of-year activity you can use to help your students review its events in a meaningful way? Keep in mind that some students are not comfortable with written work. Some teachers suggest that it’s OK to make a vocal recording instead. But students should always be invited to create and use another format than those you are suggesting. It may also be helpful to brainstorm and display a list of the year’s events, which makes it easier for students to remember specific things that have happened during the present school year.

Tips for teaching music to upper elementary students

Aileen Miracle Education

Upper elementary can be a tough level to teach in the music room. They are sometimes "too cool for school" and self-conscious of their singing voices. Academically they are advanced, yet musically they may need the basics. A little background about my situation: I’ve had most of the fifth graders I teach since kindergarten. However, I have been in other situations where they needed a lot of help with the musical basics, where behavior was an issue, and where students didn't want to sing.

Report: Underinvestment in higher education harms California’s economy

Seth Sandronsky Education

Underfunding of higher education harms the Golden State’s economy, according to a new report from the California Budget & Policy Center (CPBC). Though a direct state budget-economy link involving higher education across the U.S. is unclear, California’s case is instructive. First, we look at the numbers. "Per student spending at the CSU and UC are well below pre-recession levels and are significantly below the funding request from each institution," according to Amy Rose of the CBPC.

Shootings propel new look at an old objective: Preparing youth for the…

Bill Becken Education

The decades-long rise of gun-related violence in U.S. schools reached a zenith of sorts with the shooting at the high school in Parkland, Florida. Seemingly, they have also led to a new interest in educating students about death as a part of life. And why shouldn’t death be proactively prepared for? After all, it comes for everyone, including for one’s friends and loved ones; for great leaders and scholars; for everyone and anyone, all of the time.

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