Teaching Strategies

With a few shifts in the classroom, teachers can encourage students to pay more attention to the skills they are building than to a number or letter score.

Will flexibility around due dates deliver a reprieve for stressed-out students—or ruin them for real-world work? A high school teacher examines the practice.

When students help each other in the classroom, they gain confidence and independence—and you get to keep on teaching.

When teachers noticed a lack of autonomy in the math classroom, a switch to a student-centered curriculum bumped ownership of learning—and the kids' ability to talk about their problem-solving approach.

The behaviors associated with oppositional defiant disorder can be challenging in the classroom, but there are strategies to help build relationships and make way for learning.

To create life-long readers, ditch quotas, calendars, and logs—and replace them with strategies that get students talking about books and keeping track of the joy they experience reading.

The learning scientist Manu Kapur, architect of the theory of productive failure, on reframing our notion of failure, and letting kids stumble (but with purpose).

It can be tough to find a way toward joyfulness when you’re overwhelmed, but you can reset and reignite your energy for teaching.

Fear stifles creativity. By making space for the exchange of high-quality, low-stakes feedback, you can encourage the right kind of risk-taking.

Tune up your math teaching with this review of strategies to avoid, plus alternatives that will challenge, engage, and enlighten your students.