Specialpedagogen Ulrika Jonsson är en av drivkrafterna bakom det uppmärksammade Skoldatateket på Vallaskolan i Södertälje. Här ger hon konkreta exempel på hur man kan arbeta med assisterande IT-teknik som stöd i klassrummet. (webb-tv)

Gymnasieläraren Daniel Sandin har i flera år särskilt intresserat sig för frågor som rör bedömning och dokumentation. Här föreläser han om en modell för dokumentation med verktyg som blir till hjälp i det formativa bedömningsarbetet och vid betygssättning. (webb-tv)

Petter Iwarsson från Bris talar om samtalet som ett verktyg för att förbättra ungdomars psykiska hälsa, och om samtalet som grund för att möjliggöra ett framgångsrikt lärande. Inspelat den 26 oktober 2015 på Älvsjömässan i Stockholm. (webb-tv)

An Oregon district is testing co-teaching at three schools to help improve the inclusion of students with disabilities and those who are English-language learners. In the programs, specialists work with general-education teachers in the classroom to modify lessons and keep all students working on the same material.

High-school students in foster care in Arizona have a graduation rate of 33% -- the lowest of any group of students in the state, according to a recent study. Researchers attribute the achievement gap, in part, to foster children changing schools at high rates.

The chemistry students at Northwestern High School were not fiddling with Bunsen burners or studying the periodic table one recent weekday morning. They were sitting at their desks, reading an article about food coloring, underlining key ideas and preparing to analyze it in an essay.

Co-teaching is an instructional delivery where the mainstream teacher and specialist share teaching responsibilities within a single classroom to benefit all students' needs. When specialists and teachers collaborate through co-teaching practices, teachers often report positive experiences and believe that students show academic progress.

Every Tuesday SmartBrief on EdTech runs Tech Tips, a column featuring suggestions and recommendations from school technologists and tech-using educators. This month, we are running a roundup of the top tips from the year.

Spatial intelligence is a skill that is not widely taught, even though it's attributed to successful minds in creative fields and STEM.

Formal tests can’t measure complex ideas and creative thinking – so the University of Essex has ditched them altogetherUntil recently, philosophy students at the University of Essex – as in most other British universities – took written exams in the summer, after completing coursework during the year.

A Swedish study finds that in high school religious education courses both teachers and pupils often suggest that religions are unnecessary for modern people.