To give teachers more confidence and preparation for classroom responsibilities, some schools and districts are employing new simulation-based training tools in their professional development.

As an educator at the University of North Georgia (UNG), I spend my time with preservice teachers, preparing them for K-12 classrooms. The information that I share with my preservice teachers can also ...

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What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

Alan Borsuk’s important essay dives deeply into the complexities and challenges of education reform, raising important questions about decades of education policymaking. This topic—how classroom ...

Learning requires building new skills and understanding on prior knowledge and abilities. The order and way students experience new information will have a large impact on how successful they are at ...

At the end of each lesson, when 2nd grade teacher Erin Pawlak asked her students at P.S. 11 in New York City to reflect on their reading or share a successful strategy, the same hands would shoot up. ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a continuing series on the practical takeaways from research. In our last “What Works” essay, we cast serious doubt on the value of teachers analyzing student test data.