If professional development (PD) is a critical element to every edtech implementation, why is it so often poorly attended? Our experience is that a teacher-centric approach to developing a PD plan for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective first grade teacher ...

Knowledgeable, innovative, skilful, fun-loving, caring, supportive, task and pupil centred – it’s official – the most effective teachers are in a class of their own. They stimulate a pupil’s ...

Pick any high-priority instructional initiative in your district. Can you think of at least one teacher who is excelling in that priority area? Maybe it’s an early-elementary teacher facilitating ...

It’s lauded by some as one of the best ways to improve teaching and learning, scorned by others as a complete waste of time. It’s something that teachers might have access to weekly, or barely get ...

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 ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Researchers reexamined the Talent Transfer Initiative, finding that top-rated teachers’ value-added scores fell when they ...

After almost a whole career in the classroom, I’m making the transition to teaching remotely. I’ve been biased against online teaching since before it was invented, so the transition has been a ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Ms Evaline Ogesa, a teacher at Shauri Yako Primary school in Homa Bay town teaches grade ...