"Teacher, what are we doing for the next open class?"When open class day approaches, this conversation always starts in the ...

How can teachers ensure that students are doing meaningful cognitive work? These tweaks to common routines like turn-and-talk ...

This lesson teaches students about the science of gene editing and the ways gene modification can be used to solve problems. Students will watch a video and read an article featuring recent scientific ...

Instructional techniques for 'frameworks' and 'rhythm' that keep children from getting bored and maintain their focus~1. What ...

In lesson author Tim Smyth’s book, “Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels: Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom” (Routledge 2022), he discuss ...

Researchers have found that one key way to encourage intrinsic motivation to learn is by making classroom lessons relevant to students’ lives. This element is constant—whether we’re doing remote ...

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments; many had to completely rethink how they would approach their content to ...

Thanks to a course on “Immunity and Contagion,” Yale sophomore Philena Sun knows about the function of antibodies in the human body, making many of the news stories she is reading about recovery from ...

Angela Vacca, 7, of Newington is one of nearly 55 million students nationwide now expected to continue their education at home while schools are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Discovering new ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the most important lessons you have learned from your students? Some people make fun of teachers who say they learn a lot from their students (see The Onion’s ...