Teachers are constantly looking for new ways to engage students. They want them to be interested in the material and apply it to other factors in their lives. This could be as simple as a student understanding they’re eating an eighth of a pizza when they have a slice at ...

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and nowhere is this more true than in the school system. Your students learn from teachers in the general education classroom and then work with specialists throughout the day. These range from art and PE teachers to occupational therapists, speech ...

You teach math, science, PE or history but are still expected to boost your students’ writing skills. In fact, the district wants higher writing test scores. Teachers know they need to focus on writing, but that doesn’t make teaching the concept any easier. There’s a lot of “you should” advice that ...

The more researchers learn about child development and the human brain, the more they realize how differently each person learns. Learning theories aren’t new. Researchers have studied the differences between visual and oral learners for decades. However, learning differences are more complex than that, and some of your brightest students might ...

If you have reading specialists in your school, it might seem like they are constantly on the go. They move from one classroom to the next with copies of “Green Eggs and Ham” and “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” tucked under their arms. They often have flashcards and ...

Teachers often feel trying to boost reading skills or getting students interested in reading are Sisyphean tasks. You design lesson plans with plays, puppets, modern retellings, videos, games and other activities just to try and engage students with the material. And even if you can get your students excited about one ...

As an educator, you do your best to create engaging lesson plans. You try to connect to each student — even if you have a classroom of 20 to 30 learners. However, students often miss key lessons that you don’t have time to go back to, or they simply lack ...

Every year, a fresh batch of students joins your classroom. Within a few months, you have a clear idea of which students are bored and which have gaps in their knowledge. In some cases, you might want to lobby for additional resources to help students with learning disabilities participate equally ...

Teachers at all grade levels struggle to engage students with required reading. In the younger grades, teachers might encounter students who are still struggling to read basic sentences, much less pick up on literary elements. In the older grades, teachers battle against surly students who claim they don’t like reading ...