Teaching Strategies
Discover and share best practices for improving your teaching craft -- delivering instruction, engaging students, reaching struggling students, and more.
Teaching Young Students How to Reflect on Their Learning
Early elementary students can identify and articulate their goals through structured reflection on what matters most to them.547
No One Starts Out Awesome: Advice for New Teachers
There is no single strategy for success. But positivity, flexibility, a desire to keep improving, and empathy will help along the way.
Educational Buzzwords Defined: What Is Differentiation?
Go beyond the jargon for a quick look at a few of the many ways to differentiate instruction in the classroom.1.4k
Why Are Some Kids Thriving During Remote Learning?
Though remote learning has brought many challenges, some students seem to be thriving in the new circumstances. What can we learn from them?70.8k
The Advantages of Working With Student Teachers
A 20-year veteran shares how opening his classroom to student teachers prompts him to keep reinvigorating his practice.1.9k
8 Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom
Educators share their best synchronous and asynchronous strategies to boost student participation during online learning.42.5k
Is it Time to Drop ‘Finding the Main Idea’ and Teach Reading in a New Way?
Some schools are changing the way they teach reading—based on research that shows background knowledge is more critical to comprehension than general skills like ‘finding the main idea.’38.4k
What Teachers in China Have Learned in the Past Month
An American whose classroom in Beijing is now online shares what she and her team have learned since the coronavirus hit, just as U.S. teachers make the same shift.42.2k
Teaching the Concept of Equity Through Gardening
Plants can illustrate how different people need different things to be nourished—and how equality and equity differ.9.3k
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.22.6k
New Teachers: How to Start Your First Year With Confidence
A set of strategies ranging from the simple—like organizing your room each day—to more complex ideas like turning your teaching philosophy into actions.990
What Doesn’t Work: Literacy Practices We Should Abandon
The number one concern that I hear from educators is lack of time, particularly lack of instructional time with students. Although we can't entirely solve the time problem, we can mitigate it by carefully analyzing our use of class time.116.7k
4 Ways to Build Student-Centered Math Lessons
To help more kids thrive in math class, keep student identities in mind during the lesson planning stage.839
Making Classrooms More Inclusive for Multilingual Learners
Taking an asset-based approach to supporting students who are new to the English language can help them thrive.1.4k
Takeaways From Distance Learning
An instructional coach makes the case that “business as usual” will not be the right path once students return to traditional classrooms.5.4k