Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective first grade teacher ...

Knowledgeable, innovative, skilful, fun-loving, caring, supportive, task and pupil centred – it’s official – the most effective teachers are in a class of their own. They stimulate a pupil’s ...

If professional development (PD) is a critical element to every edtech implementation, why is it so often poorly attended? Our experience is that a teacher-centric approach to developing a PD plan for ...

For this to happen, teachers not only have to buy in to what their school systems are looking to accomplish; they also need effective professional learning. From decades of research, we know what ...

The National Council on Teacher Quality, a research and policy group that advocates for more-rigorous teacher preparation, has named Heather Peske as its new president. Peske will take over the helm ...

CAP President and CEO John Podesta testifies to the House Education and Labor Committee on how to improve education by boosting teacher quality. Chairman Miller and members of the Committee, thank you ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

The Educator speaks to a Deputy Principal about the gap between theory and classroom implementation, and what effective ...

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