Tips on Inspiring Student Curiosity
In a recent Time article, Annie Murphy Paul writes that curiosity is what "drives us to keep learning, keep trying, keep pushing forward." Read Full Post >
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May 01, 2013
March 14, 2013
Teachers' 'Core' Concern: The Tests
In reporting for a recent story package on "Common-Core Instructional Opportunities," we found that many teachers are happy with the standards, but scared about the tests. Read Full Post >
January 03, 2013
Do You Really Know What Project-Based Learning Is?
Azul Terronez, an 8th grade Humanities teacher at High Tech Middle in San Diego, explains that within project-based learning, students explore and make discoveries (i.e., learn) through the project itself. Read Full Post >
November 19, 2012
The New Flavor of Math Instruction
At a locally organized TEDx conference in Costa Mesa, Calif., last month, former Los Angeles teacher Nigel Nisbet explained how he turned chocolate bars into geometry problems to get kids hooked on math. Read Full Post >
October 31, 2012
Documentary Explores 'Place-Based' Learning
I finally had a chance to watch a documentary I've been meaning to get to for several months now called "Schools That Change Communities." Read Full Post >
October 09, 2012
One Teacher's Flip From Flipped Classrooms
While flipped classrooms are still all the rage in some education circles, teacher and blogger Shelley Wright explains why her "brief love affair with the flip has ended." Wright initially turned to the flipped model as a way to help her and her students get through "the large and sometimes burdens... Read Full Post >
August 30, 2012
Responding to Insensitive Student Comments
In a thought-provoking blog post, middle school teacher and writer Heather Wolpert-Gawron describes her approach to answering a weighty and potentially offensive student question. Read Full Post >
July 25, 2012
Is Blended Learning a Threat to Doug Lemov?
I'm going to venture to say that not too many teachers are reading Forbes.com, because otherwise this post would be steeped in teacher comments. ... In it, Michael Horn, cofounder of the nonprofit think tank Innosight Institute, makes the argument that many of the teaching techniques comprising Dou... Read Full Post >
June 28, 2012
Texas GOP: No More Critical Thinking in Schools
Teachers, you may want to be sitting down for this one. The 2012 Texas Republican Party Platform, adopted June 9 at the state convention in Forth Worth, seems to take a stand against, well, the teaching of critical thinking skills. Read it for yourself: We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thin... Read Full Post >
May 03, 2012
Recognizing Differences Between Black and Hispanic Students
Richard Whitmire, author of Why Boys Fail and one of our former opinion bloggers, writes in a USA Today column that "we need to stop lumping blacks and Hispanics together" when talking about ways to improve educational outcomes for minority students. By many measures, urban school districts are ma... Read Full Post >
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