This post is by former teacher Rebecca Smith (@rebeccaadsmith), now Instructor of Education at the University of Portland (@UPortland). Today’s post is the practitioner perspective on Monday’s post: ...

Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective first grade teacher today would have students investigate various types of objects under ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 89, No. 1 (May 2015), pp. 19-39 (21 pages) This paper aims to explore the educative power of an experienced mathematics teacher educator-researcher (MTE-R) who ...

“As more schools and districts invest in AI training, teachers are seeing practical use cases and gaining the confidence to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- American pop culture holds a special place for Hollywood depictions of eccentric or inexperienced teachers who use unconventional methods to achieve classroom breakthroughs and ...

Black and Latino students are more likely to get ineffective teachers in Los Angeles schools than white and Asian students, according to a new study by a Harvard researcher. The findings were released ...

Teacher Learning, Research, and Practice is a doctoral program area focused on how scholars conduct research into how preservice and practicing teachers learn, how university-, school- and ...

Judging by the headlines, public schools in the U.S. are in crisis mode, struggling with the first major teacher shortage since the 1990s. Last fall, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction ...

Will Lindsay comes from a long line of educators and CU Boulder alumni. Naturally, he followed in the footsteps of his family members and became a high school science teacher in Colorado Springs and ...

From mosquitoes to rural health clinics and English writing, the winners of the 2004 Academic Federation Awards for Excellence span the breadth of UC Davis expertise. William Reisen, an ...

Teachers’ assessments of pupils’ literacy can vary significantly, even for pupils with similar test scores. This may interfere with children’s right to fair and gender-equal education, according to ...

WASHINGTON (CITC) — Researchers are sounding the alarm over increased teacher absenteeism rates, arguing that the rates are an overlooked element when discussing worsening student proficiency and ...