Forskaren Joakim Wendell har studerat hur lärare undervisar om historiska orsaksförklaringar. Efter många lektionsstudier och intervjuer har han identifierat tre övergripande tillvägagångssätt – främst utifrån undervisning om Hitler och andra världskriget.

Skrantaskolan har utformat en modell för att undvika oordning på lektionerna. SO-läraren Jan Zmorzynski, NO-läraren Emma Klevskog och språkläraren Nina Wilder menar att det gemensamma arbetssättet stärker elevernas studiero och förenklar lärarnas vardag.

Ny forskning visar att nästan 20 procent av eleverna i årskurs 2–5 känner sig ängsliga över att behöva prata inför klasskompisarna på engelsklektionerna.

Choklad vi köper i Sverige kan kosta hur lite som helst – trots att både klimatet och kakaobönder riskerar att betala ett högt pris för att den ska hamna här. Ett faktum geografiläraren Anna Pettersson använder i sin undervisning.

The psychologist, researcher, and MacArthur Fellow Angela Duckworth believes that to make better decisions in our school systems, we need to rethink the way we measure student capabilities.

Teachers can prioritize building relationships with students to support social-emotional learning, according to Marilee Sprenger, a veteran educator and international educational consultant. In this article, Sprenger shares how focusing on six SEL competencies can help teachers support students who have experienced trauma and stress in their lives.

After decades of classroom teaching and interviewing, renowned educators Marilyn Burns and Lynne Zolli developed Listening to Learn, a K–5 digital interview tool launching this spring. Now, teachers can truly understand how each of their students makes sense of math.

Math, science and reading teachers can benefit from instructional coaching or teacher leaders, and research suggests such assistance may provide a better return on investment than other types of professional development. Academic specialists in Greenville County Schools in South Carolina have used multitiered support, monthly meetings and targeted coaching for teachers to help improve struggling…

Chronicling the school year in an online portfolio is a solo form of professional development for educators to track accomplishments and it allows for later reflection. Education consultant Monica Burns recommends that educators spend just a few minutes each week to document activities and resources used in class, photos taken and a few sentences of…

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project has released an approach to teaching reading. Under the approach - which calls for "rebalancing" literacy - greater emphasis is placed on teaching children to recognize spoken words before recognizing written words.

There are several available resources to help develop students' news literacy skills, writes Kimberly Rues, a prekindergarten-to-sixth-grade librarian in Missouri. In this commentary, Rues discusses the News Literacy Project and Stanford History Education Group Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum, which can help students think critically about the news they consume online.