Educators are always striving to find ways to make curriculum relevant in students’ everyday lives. More and more teachers are using social media around lessons, allowing students to use their cell phones to do research and participate in class, and developing their curriculum around projects to ground learning around an activity.

Research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports a three-pronged approach in teacher evaluations that includes students' test scores, classroom observations conducted by multiple people and feedback from students.

Jag hyser misstänksamhet mot alltifrån den så kallade evidensrörelsen till stora jämförande kunskapsmätningar. Men för läraren och eleverna i en klass kan en nationell eller internationell jämförelse bli en aha-upplevelse, skriver Silwa Claesson, lektor i allmän didaktik och docent i pedagogik.

Det tar lang tid å lære å lese. Professor Dagrun Skjelbred ved Høgskolen i Vestfold forsker på lese- og skriveopplæring. Hun peker på at læreren har flere verktøy hun kan ta i bruk for å finne ut hvor den enkelte eleven står.

Högskolan i Skövde startade sin yrkeslärarutbildning hösten 2011. Nu avslutar den första kullen studenter sin utbildning.

Mens norsk lærerutdanning i stor grad styres av politikere, overlater finnene jobben til lærerutdannede og forskere på feltet. En ny doktorgradsavhandling fra Universitetet i Oslo har sett på forskjeller mellom norsk og finsk lærerutdanning.

Pernilla Nigård har studerat hur ungdomar använder pornografi och hur de exponerar sig sexuellt på nätet. Hon presenterar sina resultat i en licentiatavhandling som läggs fram på Malmö högskola nästa vecka.

Även barn i 1-3-årsåldern lär sig saker i förskolan. Hur det går till och hur förskoleverksamheten kan utvecklas för så små barn undersöker Susanne Klaar i sin avhandling i pedagogik vid Örebro universitet.

Teachers in many parts of the country are using video games such as "World of Warcraft" and "Angry Birds" to help teach students about math, language arts and other subjects.

A high school in Arizona that has adopted blended learning, in which students learn part of the time in traditional classrooms and the remainder of instruction is online, is highlighted in this article as an example of the instructional model.

"We can use games in the classroom to not only leverage engagement but also to align games to instructional principles," writes educator Andrew K. Miller.

How does Dan Meyer make learning math enjoyable and interesting? He makes math problems "irresistible" to students, "so they have to know the answer." With the help of a camera, a tripod, and some creativity, he achieves this goal by taking students' interest and layering math on top of it.