Teaching Strategies

Discover and share best practices for improving your teaching craft -- delivering instruction, engaging students, reaching struggling students, and more.

Brain-Based Learning
Applying Learning in Multiple Contexts
When students manipulate new learning—by representing a math concept in a poem, for example—they create strong memories of it.
Teaching Strategies
How Learning Happens
In this video series, we explore how educators can guide all students, regardless of their developmental starting points, to become productive and engaged learners.
Communication Skills
Balancing Instruction in Social Studies
The difficult challenge of teaching reading, writing, and speaking in addition to social studies content and skills.
Teaching Strategies
The Role of Education in Preventing Sexual Misconduct
Three ideas for improving sex education to create a culture of consent and help prevent sexual misconduct.
Teaching Strategies
Catching Lightning in a Bottle
If you know your students well, adapting your lessons around a current event that interests them may be the right move.
Teaching Strategies
What Does a Million Look Like?
An effort to help third graders visualize large numbers turns into an ambitious project to build a model of a million.
Teaching Strategies
Borrowing Ideas from Montessori
Three Montessori-inspired strategies high school teachers can use to foster students’ independence and engagement in learning.
Technology Integration
Research-Based Tech Integration Strategies
Even when students are working with apps and devices, their learning should be social and connected to the world around them.
Critical Thinking
Using Folktales to Teach Logical Reasoning
Having young students write a pourquoi—an origin folktale—is a great way to cultivate problem-solving and divergent thinking.
Collaborative Learning
Learning on Their Feet
Vertical learning—a framework for high quality group work—showcases student thinking for everyone to see.