One of the immutable facts of education is that a teacher sees a student for a finite number of days in the year and a finite ...
Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.
Experts say the success of school technology initiatives increasingly hinges on whether districts can develop coherent, sustained professional learning sessions.
The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters make in simple words. This is what the science of reading looks like as Hoard ...
This three-part, ears-on lesson blends sound and visuals to help middle schoolers make sense of linear relationships.
Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...
Unsolicited and ill-informed advice on how experts should do their job rarely lands well. Bearing that in mind, unless you've spent years in classrooms full of students, working against the demands of ...
As a former music teacher, I see it as an orchestrated process where all members, from school leadership to teachers to custodial staff, realize their role, importance, and dynamic in the school’s ...
While teacher-parents acknowledge that parenthood brings new job-related challenges, some point out that schools could ...
As districts continue to gear up for a new school year, many are facing the realities of a nationwide teaching shortage. The Learning Policy Institute estimates that the United States could face a ...
Journal of Science Teacher Education, Vol. 29, No. 4 (June 2018), pp. 283-306 (24 pages) The teaching of socioscientific issues (SSI) holds promise for advancing functional scientific literacy, ...
Mr. Daniel Echebarria, a World History teacher at Carson High School – Silver Campus, went full French Aristocrat last week ...