All classrooms are different and require different teaching strategies to address various concerns, goals, and learning trends. Plus, it takes a dedicated teacher to employ the right teaching ...

When it comes to teaching, educators can move beyond memorization and equip students with the tools they need for fluent, confident reading.

Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...

These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.

Another core idea for helping students grasp critical concepts in chemistry is to incorporate examples to which students can relate. This is a central strategy in culturally responsive teaching, which ...

Today’s post is the latest in a series examining how teachers can help students see how learning about science and math are relevant to their lives. Today’s post will focus on science. Bertha Vazquez ...

Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

University educators working in a time of austerity rarely have the time for introducing wholesale revisions to their courses—but any educator can implement what James Lang famously calls “small ...

Hosted by IT Academic Technology Services (IT-ATS) from June 2-27, Innovative Teaching Strategies provides educators with essential tools and insights to strengthen instructor presence, help boost ...

Jonathan Zimmerman is not only a leading historian of education, whose many books include a global history of sex education, a history of public schools and the culture wars, and a how-to book on ...

Today’s post is the latest in a series sharing effective instructional strategies that can be used across content areas. Neven Holland is a Ph.D. student at the UCLA School of Education and ...