My 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Benaltable, turned the ordinary into the extraordinary and made the mundane exciting. I remember once she spread shaving cream on our desks when we practiced multiplication ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught some great lessons and we’ve also all taught some pretty bad ...

Video can be a powerful tool for classroom learning, and it’s safe to say that teachers have never had more videos at their fingertips than they do today. But with so many videos on YouTube, how do ...

In Dan Goldfield’s high school math class, students don’t learn about large numbers by staring at a whiteboard and copying zeros. They go to a beach and count grains of sand. “Some of them start by ...

Pete Dulany, a former high school business education teacher, is managing partner of Dulany Consulting and a senior collaborator at Educational Collaborators. When students work with virtual ...

Classrooms have changed with the aid of new technology. Many once commonplace activities are now all but gone. These are several of the classic classroom activities that only Baby Boomers will ...

“In the classroom” is the first in a series of articles following one teacher through the year as he introduces the state’s new educational standards to his students. Vanessa decided to throw a party ...

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After two years of pandemic disruptions to students’ reading progress, schools nationwide are scrambling for ways to help them progress faster. Small-group instruction in reading is one of the most ...

Classroom-worthy videos on YouTube shouldn’t be replacements for your lessons; they should be additions to the awesome lessons you already teach. Whether they’re an intriguing hook or the spark for a ...