Samtal om undervisning i naturvetenskap kan leda till professionell utveckling. Men det kräver att samtalen karaktäriseras av både ett komplext innehåll och en hög grad av interaktion. Det visar en avhandling vid Göteborgs universitet som undersökt vad som händer när lärare respektive lärarstudenter ges möjlighet att delta i strukturerade samtal om sin egen undervisning i…

Svenska elevers bristande skrivkunskaper har väckt het debatt. Men Karin Forsling, lektor vid Karlstads universitet, tror inte att unga skriver mindre, eller sämre. "Det finns en uppsjö av skolor där man jobbar mycket framgångsrikt med läsande och skrivande," säger hon.

Mellem 5 og 10 procent af alle børn rammes af angst, og for mange bliver angsten en livslang følgesvend, som fører til store sociale problemer og forhindrer udbytte af skole og uddannelse.

Som et eksperiment forbød en underviser på et dansk universitet alle skærme i bestemte lektioner. I et nyt studie analyserer forskere fra blandt andet KU resultatet, der bl.a. var mere nærvær, bedre engagement og dybere læring hos de studerende.

Back to the future of education: Four OECD Scenarios for Schooling is a tool to support long-term strategic thinking in education. Inspired by the ground-breaking 2001 OECD Schooling for Tomorrow scenarios, these scenarios can help identify potential opportunities and challenges and stress-test against unexpected shocks. We can then use those ideas to help us better…

Math can be a daunting subject to teach for elementary-school teachers who took few courses on the subject in college. Become a confident instructor by showing students several approaches to problem-solving -- and don't be afraid to keep learning yourself with professional development or other methods, writes Elaine Keeley, a curriculum, instruction, and staff development…

Now we know the reason why middle school kids are this way, and it has more to do with neurotransmitters than with hormones. The past 20 years of research in adolescent brain development has provided an entirely new way of understanding why adolescents—and young adolescents in particular—are the skittish, suspicious, status-conscious, peer-hungry creatures that they…

Taking regular breaks may help to support learning, says John Sweller, a leading learning science researcher. Sweller says the brain's ability to retain information in "working memory" is limited, and if students are having "trouble understanding something, what we mean is that their working memory is overwhelmed."

I Enköpings kommun ska matematikundervisningen nu tydligare vägledas av den senaste pedagogiska forskningen. Satsningen görs i förskoleklass upp till årskurs tre.