It was a year of false starts and frustrations, of troubleshooting technology glitches, and trying—and often failing—to coax students to speak from the tiny windows of their Zoom screens. But, ...

Creating good presentations has always been an important part of learning and teaching. Students use slides to explain ideas, ...

In lesson author Tim Smyth’s book, “Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels: Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom” (Routledge 2022), he discuss ...

Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. For my next few installments, I’m writing letters to people who have ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the most important lessons you have learned from your students? Some people make fun of teachers who say they learn a lot from their students (see The Onion’s ...

Between 2019 and 2021, we were co-instructors of a methods-based course called Cultures of U.S. Empire in the history and literature concentration at Harvard College, an interdisciplinary honors ...

One of the most commonly asked questions I get about my experience teaching overseas is; “if you could do it all over again ...

A third-grade teacher from Utah has gone viral with a simple lesson she uses in her classroom. Aimee Scott told FOX News she decided to create the video of her "Band-Aid lesson" after meeting with ...

There’s no such thing as a “perfect parent,” but there are incredibly important ways for parents to show up for their kids — teaching them empathy, compassion, trust, respect, and honesty in ways that ...

A metro teacher turns a porch pirate incident into a heartwarming lesson on resilience and community support for her fourth-grade students' holiday party. Learn how she overcame the setback and ...

When I was a kid, I remember watching as a neighborhood boy was chased out of his house by his mother. She ran after him, shouting, “I’ll teach you to back-talk me!” I was confused. Surely, this boy ...