Enligt en ny undersökning är tjejer som går sista året på gymnasiet mer tveksamma till att välja högre teknisk utbildning än killar. Som skäl anges bland annat osäkerhet på vad utbildningen leder till samt svåra mattestudier.

Anna-Karin Lindqvist, universitetslektor på Luleå tekniska universitet, jobbar med ett treårigt projekt om aktiva skoltransporter. Där kommer metoden "spelifiering" vara det man utgår från.

School leaders in a California district successfully encouraged instructors to want to use technology, according to teacher and instructional coach Sarah Cruz and writer Dennis Pierce. In this blog post, they share three tips, including avoiding mandates and working directly with education-technology providers.

Students with literacy-based learning disabilities may struggle with undiagnosed mild to moderate hearing impairment, according to researcher Helen Breadmore of Coventry University. Breadmore suggested that hearing impairments may make it more difficult for students to understand classroom instruction or link sounds and language to text.

Teacher David Tow abolished traditional rules, replacing them with four guiding principles for classroom conduct. In this blog post, he describes how the approach worked for students.

Recognizing what role you play within your administrative team is important as well. No one person can be everything. Work with your strengths and surround yourself with people who are good at things you aren't. Remember, a leader does not do everything himself, rather they control their environment to help make success happen. Focus on…

Kids born in fall and winter had higher cumulative incidence of ADHD diagnosis.

A study in the journal Sleep Health found an association between good baseline sleep habits and fewer symptoms of depression or anxiety among teens, but those who began school before 8:30 a.m. had increased symptoms than those who began school after 8:30 a.m. The findings were based on data involving 197 high-school students ages 14…

Är du frustrerad över att du har elever som du ”inte når” med din undervisning? Har du elever som du upplever underpresterar muntligt i klassrummet? Eller som helt enkelt inte dyker upp när de ska redovisa? Skulle du vilja göra något åt din frustration, vill du nå och hjälpa dessa elever men vet inte riktigt hur?…

Estetiska uttrycksformer kan vara givande didaktiska verktyg i svenska. Hur och i vilken utsträckning de används beror på skolans organisation, läroplanen och lärarnas språksyn.

Roland Paulsen är sociologen som blivit en av den arbetskritiska rörelsens frontfigurer. Han vill se ett arbetsliv där lärare kan koncentrera sig på kärnverksamheten.

Students at a low-performing New Hampshire high school have improved their test scores after the school shifted to a student-centered approach to learning. Student-centered learning has helped students have more say in how they learn, educators say.