With the mission of forging greater educator effectiveness and equity, non-profit New Teacher Center (NTC) has been working for two decades on establishing a comprehensive professional learning ...

I have written in the past about David Perkins’s idea of “the whole game at the junior level ” as an apt way to think about powerful learning experiences for students. Perkins’s idea is that in school ...

Teachers can use a questioning strategy originally from the business world to guide students to confidently develop and ...

When students are allowed to redo assignments the benefits can include a deeper understanding of the content, increased ...

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 ...

Teaching is about connection: Connecting theory with practice, connecting what you read in a book or discuss in a classroom with what happens in the real world. Most of all, it’s about connecting with ...

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, ...

Many children’s earliest memories of classroom Thanksgiving activities consist of donning black construction paper pilgrim caps or Native American-inspired feathered headbands for a reconstruction of ...