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Los Angeles graduate student wants to get teachers into therapy
- 03-22-2011
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By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/KPCC
Public school administrators and policymakers say that teacher effectiveness is key to boosting students’ academic performance. A Southland graduate student offers one suggestion to improve teaching: direct teachers into therapy. An 11-story glass and steel structure on the west side of the 405 Freeway in Culver City looks like just another modern corporate office building, not an incubator for social entrepreneurs. "Right now we are in the administrative area of the psychology program," says psychology graduate student Megan Marcus. "In this building is housed the graduate school of education and psychology for Pepperdine University." Marcus wants to prevent teachers from burning out – and help them better connect with their students by exposing them to the benefits of talk therapy. (more...)
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