Nothing cna replace the critica role of content. real rigorous and powerful content. period full stop end of story. it makes me crazy when reading teachers, say, ask kids to read any old book and just ...

Sponsored content by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and American Federation of Teachers. Some see us as education’s odd couple—one, the president of a democratic teachers’ union; the other, a ...

The 2015 International Summit on the Teaching Profession took place in Banff, Canada. Building on the results of previous Summits, it focused on the issue of how education systems can move from ...

A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with Heather G. Peske. Teacher evaluation and charter schools feature prominently in President Barack Obama’s proposals ...

What is the next generation of professional learning community (PLC) that will increase the power of collaboration to inspire more effective teaching? During our decades of education research, we’ve ...

The Teaching Effectiveness series seeks to bolster the teaching practice of all UAB instructors through workshops that inspire continuous improvement in teaching skills. Participation in each workshop ...

Imagine learning to be a surgeon by only reading textbooks and watching videos of operations. You’d never actually hold a scalpel or practice a single incision on a model before your first live ...

Daniel D. Pratt presents five perspectives on teaching gathered from several years of research across five different countries. These perspectives are presented in both theoretical and practical forms ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How and why do you practice retrieval practice in your classroom? The strategy of retrieval practice has been shown by research to be an extremely effective teaching ...

Attaining an equitable distribution of our nation's most effective teachers will require policy changes at the district, state, and federal levels. Teacher Lori Peck helps first grader Timia Harris at ...