Former military leaders also may be able to apply their skills to corporate-training positions or teaching jobs at educational institutions, adds Mr. Crampton.

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Brazil compounds the problem by training teachers in neither subject matter nor teaching skills (they learn about the philosophy of education instead).

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Among the steps that Secretary Clinton and the White House announced in support of attracting and retaining women to STEM careers are improving data collection and dissemination on women in science and technology, bolstering the available pool of skilled STEM mentors, encouraging research-based STEM teaching, and helping to connect women to online and mobile STEM skills training.

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Of course games can offer training in academic skills, but we often forget that they are simultaneously teaching our kids particular lessons about how to mediate their experience in the world with a specific kind of tool.

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The Air Force Weapons School provides advanced training for a handful of elite officers each year in traditional skills, like teaching aerial combat, reconnaissance and bombing, and also for the growing ranks of drone pilots.

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Serious problems have been identified in the quality of pre-service teacher training, in terms of both subject matter knowledge and skills in the field of teaching that are necessary to be effective in the classroom.

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