Sentence starters can help students who are unsure how to begin an argument writing assignment, Michigan middle-school English teacher Jeremy Hyler writes in this blog. Hyler offers examples and explains how this scaffolding can help ease the writing process for students who have trouble getting started.  

En stor gruppe børn savner støtte fra såvel lærere som forældre, mens næsten alle børn savner kammeraterne. Børnene er ramt på trivsel såvel som læring.

Children who had high touch-screen technology use were quicker to look at objects when they appeared and were less able to ignore distractions, compared with those who were considered to be low users, researchers reported in Scientific Reports. The findings were based on data involving 38 children.

When schools are mindful and deliberate about creating an equitable culture, they are better prepared to support everyone in the building.

Megan Kelly, a teacher in Singapore, used games to teach her students about ancient civilizations. In this blog post, Kelly describes how she modified the game Apples to Apples to show students how their own daily lives were affected by the past, and used an Institute of Play game called Galactic Mappers to teach lessons…

The pandemic has caused all of us to begin each day in kind of a blur, said Marcus Buckingham in kicking off his Future of Education Technology Conference. But how can we maintain our resilience during challenging times?

Superintendent Jill Siler offers five leadership strategies for coping with fear and failure.

When her students have goals, a middle school teacher asks them to focus on the process and effort needed to achieve the results they want.

Teachers are becoming stars these days on TikTok, that social media platform for sharing short videos. And some of them say the platform serves as a kind of virtual teaching lounge during COVID. But is it a good thing for the teaching profession that classroom instructors are part of a site known for dance crazes,…

How can cognitive science principles support the deepening of mathematics education? A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development and Harvard University's graduate school of education explored how using a basic learning process-comparison-could lead to stronger outcomes for K-12 students in mathematics, and analyzed different approaches for incorporating comparison…

A popular strategy, using pictures in math class gives students another way to access math concepts and can spark great conversations.

Personalized learning’s goal of creating a unique plan for each child has long existed within special education. And it’s very difficult to do well.