Historiens pedagoger har mycket att lära oss. Det säger journalisten Katarina Bjärvall, som tecknat porträtt av 21 pedagogiska nytänkare från fyra sekel.

Lågstadieläraren Karin har fått en nyanländ elev i klassen, som adopterats sent till Sverige. Det modersmål som man förmodade att eleven hade visade sig inte stämma. Detta berättar modersmålsläraren för Karin. Att modersmålet inte är identifierat gör att det därför är problematiskt att lära sig ett nytt språk. Det går inte heller att genomföra någon…

Harwich and Dovercourt High School is focused on the benefits that reading books outside the classroom can bring.

Students' hearing may affect their performance in school, according to a study of 5,000 elementary-school students in the Netherlands. Data show that students with a slight or mild hearing impairment may affect students' behavior and academic performance.

More than 300 schools in the UK have volunteered to serve as "ed tech testbeds" that will test new products in the classroom by collaborating with software developers and researchers. The goal is to more quickly generate evidence about which products are useful -- and which are not -- in classroom settings.

A coaching culture isn't productive unless school leaders design and implement positive conditions for coaching, say educators Isobel Stevenson and Sarah Woulfin. Here are four essential conditions coaches need to transform leading, teaching, and learning.

Why it's important for teachers — and their schools — to create space to acknowledge and respond to the stress of the job.

A Michigan school district is changing teaching and learning for the better by redesigning classrooms, says Steve Laatsch, assistant superintendent of instructional services for Saline Area Schools. In this interview, he shares how the spaces and technology - including Chromebooks and materials from Discovery Education - support deeper learning.

Computer Science Education Week begins Dec. 9, and Code.org's Hour of Code offers an opportunity to engage all students in coding, even those with no experience, writes Kimberly Rues, a librarian in a Missouri school district. In this commentary, she writes that when she has introduced coding, the students who do well often are the…

Dyspraxia affects fine and gross motor development and can make it difficult for kids to learn, but there are ways teachers can help.

Att kunna prata om matematik på flera olika språk stärker förståelsen för matte. Det visar Ulrika Ryan i en avhandling vid Malmö universitet. Hon har också sett hur hjälpsamhet och konkurrensförhållanden uppstår när eleverna möts i skolmatematiken.

Lärare som värnar alla elevers rätt att lära sig läsa och skriva kan paradoxalt nog framstå som “elevfientliga” i andras ögon. Men att överge strävan att alla elever ska bli läs- och skrivkunniga, är ett gigantiskt svek. Alla elever behöver bli läsande och skrivande samhällsmedborgare, skriver Fredrik Sandström, svensklärare på högstadiet.